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ENGAGE!

A practical account of how to solve a vexing problem, viz. that of building engaged employees.

By: Sunil Maheshwari

Inspiration behind the Book

I began my career in Human Resources Management and Development exactly 25 summers ago. Over the course of these years, I have had the opportunity of working with leading and progressive corporate organizations that were at the forefront of HR practice.
To my surprise, I found that the developmental practices and people engagement frameworks that were deployed failed to address the needs of the individual as well as the organization at the same time. Many of the extant approaches favored the organization, and treated the individual employees as cogs in a wheel. Certain other models were anthropocentric in nature, and thereby appeared to neglect organizational effectiveness.
Therefore, we set out to create a new people engagement paradigm that could carry organizational vitality and individual fulfillment together at the same time. It took us 18 long years to do so.
Over this period, we peeled the engagement onion, tested every part of it, dug into the whys and wherefores of each, learned from the organizations that have done it well, iteratively developed the constructs for each element, and then wove it all together into this paradigm of universality and truth.

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T
he salient organizational development challenge in modern times is that of building a highly engaged workforce that is committed, productive and innovative. Employees wish to give their very best at work. Organizations also make every effort to provide an atmosphere where people can do their best. However, despite intensive efforts from both sides, engagement still remains elusive.
This book emphasizes the role that the employee and the institution need to play, in order to make people engagement possible. It spells out a novel engagement paradigm that starts from the fundamentals i.e. the intrinsic nature of the human being and the basic nature of organizational work in modern society.

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Topics Covered

The Quest

The exploration of how diverse individuals, as well as organized groups of people, may be unified as a symbiotic whole.

The Foundations

This section describes the building blocks that support the creation of deeply engaged organizational contexts.

The Approach

The twin fundamentals of the approach that yields human engagement in a collective setting.

The Architecture

The manner in which role mandates at different levels these may be fulfilled is exhaustively presented.

What goes into buildingan engaged organization?

In his book Engage! Dr. Sunil Maheshwari presents a paradigm of organizational engagement that helps to create a deeply engaged and synergistic human system, wherein organizational vitality is enhanced alongside individual fulfillment.

Reviews

A practical account of how to solve a vexing problem, viz. that of building engaged employees. This is a different kind of book that could change the approach to the issue of people engagement. Certainly worth the time and the price.

R. Gopalakrishnan,

CEO, The Mindworks

For sustained business outperformance in the ‘new normal’, it is vital that we create an organizational culture which unleashes the human potential.

A critical determinant will be the level of employee engagement, and Dr Maheshwari does an excellent job of exploring employee engagement through a multidimensional and holistic lens. Readers will get an in-depth understanding of the seven accountability levels and the challenges posed at each level.

Be it a small-team leader or a C-level executive, all will be able to relate to this book and use the learnings to shift their performance to the ‘next orbit’.

Rajeev Dubey,

Group President (HR and Corporate Services) and CEO (After-Market Sector), Member of the Group Executive Board, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd

Engage! vividly brings out the fact that while organizations are built mostly for economic value creation, they thrive only when the human ‘spirit’ is deeply engaged towards the fulfilment of the institutional purpose and objectives.

A beautiful blend of logic and creativity, it delineates how the role holders at every accountability level must carry out their respective mandates in an appreciative cultural milieu. All this adds up creating a ‘perfectly engaged organization’.

This text captures the best of Western as well as Indian philosophy of development in order to create an impeccable engagement paradigm. It brings out the true essence of a Sanskrit shloka which means that there is no alphabet without meaning; no root without medicinal property; no person without ability. But rare is the manager or leader who can connect, organize and utilize immense human potential so as to harness latent human talent towards the creation of ‘individual and organizational excellence’.

D. V. Shastry,

Director (Personnel), Electronics Corporation of India Ltd

The book offers a novel vision to all individuals. In a world where being part of an organization is easy, but feeling like one is hard, it helps us to understand how the most benevolent organizations have the most engaged employees and self-fulfilled individuals.

The book puts the idea of engagement as well as individual aims, wishes and health at the same level and gives insights on how both can be achieved simultaneously. The author never digresses from his objective and takes the readers step by step to the making of an engaged organization.

Navneet Saluja,

Managing Director, GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Ltd

‘Employees are nurtured by an appreciative culture that is deeply informed by the highest aspirations of human nature’, as Dr Maheshwari rightly mentions in this book, is one of the essential takeaways for all the CEOs and CXOs who want to build ideal organizations.

Professor Debashis Chatterjee,

Author of Timeless Leadership

Dr. Sunil Maheshwari goes beyond the traditional understanding of engagement and brings in an appreciative and holistic lens to explicate its nuances. Dr. Maheshwari explains why engagement is a basic organizational imperative that must be realized to make the lives of those working in all forms of organizations meaningful and productive.

Written in a lucid and practical manner, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in looking for new perspectives and practical ideas for enhancing employee engagement.