How to engage employed doctors
Happy doctors make happy patients, just like happy employees anywhere make happy customers. However, only 30% of worldwide employees are engaged and that causes problems not just for retailers and financial services but for hospitals and other sick care delivery organizations as well. The result is not just financial performance but decreasing levels of patient satisfaction and physician burn out, depression and suicide.
According to one author, measuring engagement is a waste of time. Recent research from the O.C. Tanner Institute indicates that engagement can be a flawed and misleading gauge of effectiveness, as it’s not a measure of the quality and impact of the work product itself. And with remote and hybrid work changing the employer-employee equation, and mass resignations shifting the power balance, it’s clear that even the best traditional measures of workplace activity may no longer be relevant. That’s why this researcher believes that companies would do well to home in on a different metric in 2022 and beyond. Let’s measure “great work” instead and suggests the five key behaviors that employees who produce great work demonstrate:
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