The Conference Board Human Capital in Review™: Focus on Employee Engagement (Vol. 1, No. 3, 2012)

This publication is designed for the busy human capital executive who values selected and thoughtfully summarized article reviews of what is happening in the area of employee engagement.

This edition includes articles on the following topics:

• Human capital executives should take into account environmental factors in job satisfaction.
• Engagement and wellness factors have also caught the attention of various countries as they research national performance beyond GDP to include the status of its citizens' wellness and happiness.
• Job satisfaction has risen slightly, mainly among mature workers and workers under 25, but globally engagement rates are still very low overall.
• Research that focuses on sustaining the engagement of employees shows that leaders should align organizational drivers with drivers for employee engagement, including leadership, a balanced workload, goals and objectives, supervisor relationships, and the image and brand of an organization.