Employee Engagement: Simplification at Work

Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Bonnie D Graham

Business News, Technology, News

4.9 • 108 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2015

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The buzz: Engagement. Baylor University and SAP researchers found employee engagement alarmingly low worldwide, with just 13% of employees feeling actively engaged. Wondering if complexity in organizations could be a root cause, they explored whether simplification, engagement, and trust together contribute to better-functioning companies. The experts speak. Dr. Ann Mirabito, Baylor: "Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler" (Albert Einstein). Lauren Moser, Baylor: "Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too" (Aldous Huxley). Josh Arnold, Baylor: "God help those with open hands, may they never feel burden again. Yeah I'll stand up for those that can't. I'll close the distance" (A Day to Remember). Deb Stambaugh, SAP: "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference" (Robert Frost). Join us for Employee Engagement: Simplification at Work.

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0:45.2	Welcome to the most nutritious hour of business talk all week.
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0:55.6	Your host and moderator is Bonnie D. Graham. You'll hear from the innovators who have learned to use game-changing technologies to shake up the status quo and help move today's
1:00.6	businesses in new directions. Now, here's Bonnie D. Graham. Welcome, welcome, welcome. Welcome. I edit a fourth one.
1:07.1	If you want to run with the game changangers, you're absolutely in the right place.
1:16.2	This is the fourth of four consecutive special episodes we're doing here on Coffee Break with Game Changers Radio, featuring MBA professors and MBA graduate students at Baylor University
1:22.2	in Texas, joined with an SAP thought leader each week. So we have what I call this a micro mini-series,
1:29.3	and I'm just delighted. I want to thank whoever is tweeting at Baylor underscore MBA for saying,
1:34.6	hey, this is the last hashtag SAP Radio Spot today. Listen live. Yes, we are live and looking
1:39.7	forward to this. So let's get started. The buzz today is the word engagement. Let me tell you why.
1:46.0	Baylor University and SAP researchers found that employee engagement is alarmingly low worldwide.
1:54.0	Get this. Only 13% of surveyed employees are feeling actively engaged. We'll find out a little more later in the show
2:01.6	about that actual research. So wondering if complexity in organizations, because we know the bigger
2:07.4	organizations get, the more like what when I was a program we used to call it Spaghetti Code,
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