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What is employee engagement?
Employee engagement is the mobilisation by businesses of the time, talent, energy and resources of their people to contribute to the community. This includes:
- Long-term sustained commitments
- Skills-based, short-term problem solving assignments for community organisations
- Transfer of skills and core business competencies to community partners
- Team-based ‘challenge’ projects
- Company sponsored projects, including fundraising for community organisations
- Secondments
When done effectively employee engagement: helps build company reputation, particularly in the local community as it increases the dialogue between companies and communities.
Volunteering brings corporate culture and values to life and helps to build morale, pride and loyalty among employees. It improves leadership skills and helps team development as well as facilitating personal and skills development among employees.
Employee engagement also leverages company resources for greater impact in the community, creates opportunities for strengthening stakeholder dialogue and contributes to the development of healthy and sustainable communities.
For more details on the business case for employee engagement please download businesscase.pdf.