Learning – A Key To Profits

December, 2007 from Loma Resource – “According to a new research study by Towers Perrin, the people in an organization make the difference. Organizations need engaged employees to prosper, and one of the keys to producing engaged employees is providing learning and development, the study emphasized.

Julie J. Gebauer, managing director of Towers Perrin, said the study confirmed that organizations with engaged employees deliver higher performance and produce better financial results…”

180 View (written by Lawrence Young) – When was the last time you wondered what it takes to attract and retain a stable workforce of highly motivated and productive employees? How often do you feel like you just keep spinning your wheels and wasting money when it comes to human resource management?

In this excellent article, author Ron Clark reports on a major Towers Perrin research study which found that learning and development is one of the key factors in increasing employee engagement, which, in turn, is linked to a company’s financial performance.

The article explains that engaged employees “have an emotional attachment to the organization, their job and their work. They have a rational understanding of the organization’s goals, values and how they contribute. And they have the motivation and willingness to invest discretionary effort to perform better.”

Clark then shares with us the five key insights gleamed from the research study conducted on almost 90,000 employees in 18 countries during the summer of 2007. Insightful indeed!

If you want to rid yourself of the stress that comes from managing people that aren’t ‘turned on’, you’ve got to invest a few minutes and read this article from beginning to end. But remember, the theory is only as good as how well you put it into practice.