Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Employee engagement is good for the bottom line


A shift in thinking – employees are the new profit centers

The US Bureau of Labor Department forecasts in 2010 there could be ten million more jobs available than there are available employees to fill them in the US. So it is not surprising that Greg Ziols, Chair of Vistage, the world’s largest CEO membership organization, cites “recruiting and retaining employees in a tight labor market.” to be the most significant trend impacting business today. According to Ziols, Vistage’s 2007 “CEO Confidence Index” (www.vistage.com) found “Once again, finding and hiring qualified staff was cited as the most critical challenge for more than one third of all firms. Just one in ten CEO’s think it will become easier to find qualified employees.”

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