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The OpX Leadership Network’s Workforce Engagement Solutions Group released its first resource, Workforce Engagement, last week at IndustryWeek Best Plants Conference & Expo in Charlotte, North Carolina.
“Workforce Engagement is a critical issue in American businesses,” said Tom Egan, PMMI vice president of Industry Services. “Gallup estimates that the U.S. economy lost between $450 and $550 billion in productivity in 2013 due to disengaged workers. This document serves as a practical guide to avoiding that loss from people who are part of solving this problem at their own companies.”
Group Chair Greg Flickinger, Ph.D, vice president of Manufacturing and Corporate Engineering, Snyder’s-Lance, presented this resource, produced by manufacturing industry thought leaders. The paper provides an employable strategy for increasing engagement throughout the chain of command, ensuring staff is invested in a company’s success and reaching common goals. This resource guides readers through a process of empowering a company’s workforce to make and own decisions to create an active team that can take actions that lead to positive results.
"The engagement framework provides a roadmap of universal principles that enable and nurture a culture of ownership,” Flickinger says. “Understanding the many contributing factors will help leadership make improvements in their culture to unlock discretionary effort and commensurate performance. It took over two years to codify the key elements used by successful leaders to authentically and consistently make the organizational magic happen."
OpX Leadership Network is the new name of the former Alliance for Innovation and Operational Excellence (AIOE), founded by PMMI in 2011 to help CPGs and original equipment manufacturers solve common operational challenges, make smarter decisions and achieve operational excellence.
Available for download now at OpXLeadershipNetwork.org, the report guides readers through the concepts of empowerment, enablement and connection to create an engaged workforce.
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