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How an organization's executive team influences managers and frontline workers -- for good or ill
November 2, 2010
How does employee engagement move through an organization? Does it begin in the executive suite and move down through managers to frontline workers? Or does it come from all different directions? Gallup researchers set out to tackle these essential leadership questions.
Social connections explain a lot -- from why some teams excel to why, when a husband comes home crabby, his wife soon becomes cranky too. That begs the question: What would social connections do for business if executives used them on purpose?
In this podcast of the GMJ article The Power and Potential of Social Networks, experts tell what social connections could do for businesses if executives started to use them with intent.
Gallup researchers have found that Social Wellbeing -- having strong relationships and love in your life -- is vital to your health, happiness, and even to your productivity at work. The authors of Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements explain why.
