The Search For Significance
<h2><strong>Show Me the Money!</strong></h2>
<p>Have you ever been asked by your CEO to prove with scientific evidence, as opposed to feel good concepts and theories, that employee attitudes, work environment, culture or climate have a direct impact on corporate profits? Well, an interesting article relating employee perceptions directly to bottom line business results came to my attention. The Gallup Corporation article written by Curt Coffman and Jim Harter, Ph.D. goes into detail regarding twelve key areas of employee attitudes and how their studies of a wide variety of corporations proves that employee perceptions correlate strongly with productivity, profits, turnover and customer satisfaction. (See reference and link at the end of this article.)</p>
<p>The article concludes after studying 2500 organizations in 12 industries that, <em>“The data clearly show that within successful business units employees have clear expectations, close relationships, can see how what they do relates to ‘something significant,’ and have an ongoing opportunity to contribute to that ‘something significant’ while learning and growing as individuals</em>.” The data demonstrates that Productivity and Profits are 50% and 44% higher, respectively for top quartile (in employee attitudes) companies as compared to bottom quartile.</p>
<h1><strong>Would You Like to Go Bowling With Me?</strong></h1>
<p>The “something significant” phrase caught my attention and reminded me of a story I heard told at a conference several years ago. The story goes like this:</p>
<p>Let’s say you visit me in my home town and in the evening for recreation I suggest we go bowling. Not wanting to be impolite, you graciously agree to accompany me to the bowling alley in our little town. We walk inside and arrange with the clerk at the front desk to rent shoes and bowling balls. He assigns us to Lane number 8.</p>
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