News tagged with employee engagement


Engaged employees deliver improved business performance

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research indicates that in the UK and US as many as 70% of employees may not be engaged at work. Therefore, it is not surprising that employee engagement has become something of a hot topic amongst business ...


Employee engagement dependent upon conditions created by employer

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 20, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

In a new article in Industrial and Organizational Psychology, William H. Macey and Benjamin Schneider examine the meaning of employee engagement, which they view as leading to unusually effective employee behavior with s ...





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HP researchers try to tell you who your friends are

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Most people have scores of contacts, scattered around their mobile phone, e-mail address book and multiple social networking sites. Scientists at Hewlett-Packard can tell you which of those contacts are your closest friends.


Study on Great Lakes erosion dredges up controversy

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The Great Lakes aren't as great as they once were. A U.S.-Canadian study released Tuesday reveals that unexpected erosion in the St. Clair River following a 1962 dredging project has permanently lowered Lakes Michigan and ...


Education Budget Cuts to Cause Increase in Mobile Technology Use

Technology / Other

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- As budget cuts in education continue, we will see more use of mobile technologies in the classroom in 2010, predicts Dr. Vivian Wright, a University of Alabama educator.


MIT's big wheel in Copenhagen

Biking 2.0: MIT's big wheel in Copenhagen (w/ Video)

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (11) | comments 5

Yesterday, Dec. 15, at the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change, MIT researchers debuted the Copenhagen Wheel -- a revolutionary new bicycle wheel that not only boosts power, but can keep track of friends, ...


Report: Arizonans make good neighbors, but not good citizens

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Polls consistently show that Arizonans take pride in their state, enjoy their quality of life, and like and trust their neighbors. Yet despite such positive outlooks, the percentage of Arizona citizens who ...


Court to review employer access to worker messages

Technology / Other

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- The Supreme Court said Monday it will decide how much privacy workers have when they send text messages from on their employers' accounts.


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Google tests new phone to profit from mobile Web

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 2

(AP) -- Google Inc. is determined to gain more influence over how the Web is used on mobile phones, even if the next step in the quest tramples some of the relationships forged during its two-year expansion ...


Glasgow's joking computer

Glasgow's joking computer

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Glasgow Science Centre in Scotland is exhibiting a computer that makes up jokes using its database of simple language rules and a large vocabulary.


Texting, tweeting ought to be viewed as GR8 teaching tools, scholar says

Texting, tweeting ought to be viewed as GR8 teaching tools, scholar says

Technology / Hi Tech

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The impact of text messaging on the decline of formal writing among teens has been debated in pedagogical circles ever since cell-phone ownership became an adolescent rite of passage in the mid-2000s. But ...


Hourly employees happier than salaried

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created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

People paid by the hour exhibit a stronger relationship between income and happiness, according to a study published in the current issue of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (PSPB), the official journal of the So ...



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