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In 2009 BIS published Engaging for Success (more commonly known as the MacLeod Report), a study by David MacLeod and Nita Clarke of over organisations across the UK demonstrating high employee engagement and high performance.
David Nigel MacLeod (born 1967 or 1968) is a New Zealand businessman and politician. Since 2023, he is the Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives for New Plymouth, representing the National Party. He previously served as chair of the Taranaki Regional Council from 2007 to 2022.
- Strategic Narrative. Visible, empowering leadership providing a strong strategic narrative about the organisation, where it’s come from and where it’s going.
- Engaging Managers. Engaging managers who focus their people and give them scope, treat their people as individuals and coach and stretch their people.
- Employee Voice. Employee voice throughout the organisations, for reinforcing and challenging views, between functions and externally. Employees are seen not as the problem, rather as central to the solution, to be involved, listened to, and invited to contribute their experience, expertise and ideas.
- ORGANISATIONAL Integrity. Organisational integrity – the values on the wall are reflected in day to day behaviours. There is no ‘say –do’ gap. Promises made and promises kept, or an explanation given as to why not.
- Trust and Transparency
- A Higher Meaning Or Purpose
- Empowerment and Enablement
- UK Lagging Behind
- The Key Enablers of Engagement
- References
The current VUCA environment is, MacLeod says, affecting both businesses and individuals in equal measure. And where there’s an almost constant state of flux in workplaces, he says that employers need to think more about what employees expect at work.According to MacLeod, above all else, employees want two most basic human instincts: trust and fair...
Employees today have different expectations of both their career and employer. MacLeod points out that they want a sense of meaning and purpose at work – to know what they are achieving. This, he says, tallies with research by McKinsey, which found that the cornerstone of engagement for people is making progress in meaningful work, getting to the n...
Employees also want to be empowered. Their manager has the greatest influence here in providing some autonomy and control. MacLeod explains: Inclusion is equally important as employees now expect to be treated with respect and they want a voice in organisations. And yet MacLoed highlights that just one in three managers are regarded as ‘good’ at em...
While employee engagement issues certainly aren’t unique to the UK, too many organisations here are still failing to listen to and understand what employees need. And, as a result engagement remains low while, against other key measures, businesses also continue to struggle: 1. Wellbeing – UK 9th out of 12 in a study of developed countries; also a ...
To turn this around, MacLeod says organisations must focus on four key enablers of employee engagement. He describes the following four factors as being common in virtually every successful organisation he and his team has ever researched.
Engage for SuccessMcKinseyWERS (Workplace Employee Relations Study)Gillian Stamp – ‘Tripod of Work’ model
Apr 5, 2013 · Most potently, he declares: “I’m not a human resource; I’m a human being.”. "That expression has certainly caught on," says David MacLeod, co-founder of the Engage for Success movement, sitting in the office of co-founder Nita Clarke in London's Somerset House. "It all comes back to four 'pillars'," he goes on.
Jul 31, 2023 · In the UK, highly regarded research by David Macleod and Nita Clark of Engage for Success identified that organizations which showed high employee engagement and performance shared four "enablers," for success. Let’s take a look at each of these enablers in turn. 1. Strategic narrative
Engage for Success is a movement that promotes employee engagement as a key driver of business performance. It provides a body of evidence based on academic research and case studies, co-authored by David MacLeod and Nita Clarke.
