COST OF DISENGAGED EMPLOYEES

Employee engagement is a huge issue for companies big and small. Low engagement plagues many companies, dragging down productivity, hurting the bottom-line, and often making work environments themselves a drag. Engaged employees are far more productive than their disengaged counterparts.

In a study of 25,000 executives and employees, it was found that: A mere 30% of US employees are engaged, committed to doing a good job; 50% of employees merely put their time in; and 20% are counterproductive, negatively influencing coworkers, missing days at work and driving customers away through poor service. The 20% of counterproductive employees alone cost the USA economy about half a trillion a year.

Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne have developed a tool to estimate the cost of disengaged employees in your organization. This provides you a rough estimate of the minimum annual benefit you can achieve in your leadership strength by applying blue ocean leadership in your organization.

(1) This provides a rough estimate of the minimum annual benefit you can achieve by creating a step-change in your leadership strength by applying blue ocean leadership in your organization.

(2) This is a reasonable approximate average salary plus benefits in the U.S. These numbers for most countries can be ascertained online if the actual average annual salary of your organization cannot be secured.

Check out Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne’s article in Harvard Business Review – Blue Ocean Leadership and unlock the ocean of unrealized talent and energy in the organization.

Learn more about Blue Ocean Leadership.

Read the blogs:

• From Blue Ocean Strategy to Blue Ocean Leadership
• The Four Pillars of Blue Ocean Leadership
• How to See Your Current Leadership Reality
• How to Develop and Select Your New Leadership Profiles
• How to Institutionalize Your New Blue Ocean Leadership Practices
• The Mind Map of Blue Ocean Leadership