Gallup Saves The World

  

       I respect Gallup, the polling and research company. 
       I frequently post their work here at www.TimLennox.com and have been using the company as a story source for a very long time.      
      When I was just getting started in broadcast journalism, in New Jersey, I was able to interview the company's founder, George Gallup for radio stories.

     Now Gallup is joining forces with another firm to solve a problem they've identified They write:

"...there's a crisis in the cultures of organizations worldwide. Gallup has discovered that only 13% of the world's 1.3 billion full-time employees are engaged in their work."

"...Global GDP is running out of gas. This means the world's citizens aren't making and trading enough to support population growth, food and shelter needs, infrastructure development, the creation of good jobs, adequate healthcare, and so on. Global well-being is running out of gas, too. Our mission is to fix these problems and help get the global economy back on track."

    

      My gut---certainly equal to Gallup's massive research effort, no?--- tells me the lack of engagement at many companies is because of the young workers they are hiring---millennials--- don't much care about being engaged. They see their job as a stopover, a brief stay till they move on for better pay or better management, a better job where managers won't bitch at 'em for living with a cell phone in their hands and ear buds in their ears. I've seen it in all kinds of workplaces. And forgive my cynicism, but I don't think gobbledygook (to use my own technical language) is the solution: 

"A significant contribution of the Organizational Science Initiative will be its creation of the first-ever global gold standards around employee engagement and organizational health, so leaders of all types can learn and benchmark from one another's successes. The right dashboard with matching metrics for all to use is a game changer in itself."  

     Perhaps lessons can be learned by looking at two companies at either end of the job spectrum: a tech giant and a supermarket chain, both identified as 2015 Best Places to Work by Forbes. 

[Note: none of the comments in this post relate to my own place of work or my own co-workers. At least none who are still there.]