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Engaging Employees Across Generations in an Economic Downturn

Engaging Employees Across Generations in an Economic Downturn

There is now a compelling and growing body of evidence that links successful employee engagement with essential business measures such as greater customer loyalty, lower talent turnover, and even enterprise-level financial performance. At the same time, companies are facing the challenges associated with the maturing workforce. In addition to the expected issues associated with the maturing workforce such as succession planning and knowledge transfer, the changing nature of how work gets done increasingly demands that employees of all ages work collaboratively, build relationships, and maintain interpersonal networks. As part of The Conference Board's ongoing research on employee engagement and its global dynamics, this group will empirically explore whether the differences between "Baby Boomers," "Gen-Xers," and "Millennials" actually exist. Together we will discover whether employees of different ages engage with their jobs, their colleagues, their managers, and their companies in distinctly different ways or whether they are more similar than current literature presents.

As a member you will:

  • Receive useful research literature starting on Day One.
  • Exchange ideas, experiences, and insights with a variety of experts and peers who are passionate about the dynamics of employee engagement and generational issues.
  • Gain exclusive access to The Conference Board's team of employee engagement research team and their work.
  • Participate in customizing a research project that is focused on the unique needs of the companies involved in the group.
  • Provide your company with valuable intelligence about engaging employees of different ages through a customized benchmarking report that compares your own employees' responses against those of dozens of other companies.
  • Receive a complete research report that integrates the responses of the employees in this study with the thousands already collected in The Conference Board's Employee Engagement Global Database.

Note: This Working Group is closed - Report Pending

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For more information please contact:
Alberta McNamee
alberta.mcnamee@conference-board.org
212-339-0462

Eliska B. Meyers
eliska.meyers@conference-board.org
+1 415 282 4380

Stephanie J. Creary
stephanie.creary@conference-board.org
+1 617 835 2399

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