Most organisational leaders agree that achieving success requires the active and willing participation of people throughout the organisation. However, the actions of their managers and culture of their organisations may be discouraging employees from doing so.

Finding and keeping the right people - with the right skills and in the right places around the world - presents unique challenges for organisations. Engaging those people to voluntarily deliver maximum effort in key strategic areas adds another dimension to the challenge. But you can’t just order people to come up with new ideas or to be more cost-conscious or more productive. They need to care about the organisation and be personally committed to its success. However, at a time when organisations are relying more than ever on their workforces, a new global survey by Towers Perrin finds that only one in seven employees worldwide are fully engaged with their work.

The Global Workforce Study, by consultants Towers Perrin, found that while many people are eager to contribute more at work, the actions of their managers and culture of their organisations may be discouraging them from doing so. It shows that there is a vast, and largely untapped, reserve of employee performance potential. The situation has organisations worldwide seeking to answer the question: How do we engage our workers and tap into this reserve?
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