What Makes Employee Engagement Different from Employee Satisfaction
What makes employee engagement different from employee satisfaction is worth settling before running a survey, because the two lead to different actions.
Satisfaction measures contentment with the conditions of work. Pay, hours, facilities, the commute. It can be perfectly high in a workforce that is comfortable and doing very little.
Engagement is about discretionary effort and connection to the work. It can be high in a demanding environment and low in a comfortable one.
The practical difference is what you do with a poor score. Low satisfaction usually points to conditions, which are addressed by changing something concrete. Low engagement usually points to managers, clarity of purpose or a sense that effort is pointless, none of which is fixed by improving the facilities.
Safe Work Australia covers psychosocial hazards including poor support. This is general information rather than legal advice, and obligations vary by state and territory.
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