2/3 favourable

English translation: 66.6 % engaged

07:35 Apr 25, 2010

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Human Resources

English term or phrase: 2/3 favourable

In his PPT presentation, a CEO sets out his company’s goals for 2010:

• PRODUCTIVITY: Drive Productivity to 6+%
• CASH FLOW: Generate Operating Cash Flow of $0.6 Billion (before taxes and interest)
• PEOPLE: Improve Employee Engagement Index Score to 2/3 favorable

I’m not sure about this phrase – ‘’2/3 favourable’’. Does it mean that the Company has plans to ensure that 66% of its workforce are engaged in their jobs?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Grzegorz Mysiński KudoZ activity Questions: 1925 (none open) (45 closed without grading) Answers: 1782 Poland
Local time: 07:18

Selected answer:66.6 % engaged

Explanation:
Improve the score on the Employee Engagement Index (see links) from the current value to 66.6 % favorable

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David Russi
United States
Local time: 23:18

Grading comment

Thank you David
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4 +6

66% of employees like their jobs

David Knowles

5 +3

66.6 % engaged

David Russi

2/3 engaged according to certain sets of standards

Stephanie Ezrol

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6 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +6

66% of employees like their jobs

Explanation:
It's referring to a staff satisfaction survey, probably carried out annually. Presumably the last one was poor, maybe with 50% of employees not thinking much of their jobs. If he talks like that all the time, it's not surprising!

David Knowles
Local time: 06:18
Native speaker of:

English

11 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

66.6 % engaged

Explanation:
Improve the score on the Employee Engagement Index (see links) from the current value to 66.6 % favorable

Reference: http://www.gallup.com/consulting/52/employee-engagement.aspx
Reference: http://www.gallup.com/consulting/121535/Employee-Engagement-...

David Russi
United States
Local time: 23:18
Native speaker of:

English,

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 8

Grading comment

Thank you David

19 hrs confidence:

2/3 engaged according to certain sets of standards

Explanation:
"Employee engagement" is a technical Human Resources type term, or perhaps better called a buzzword, which seems to aim at determing how to get the most out of employees.

2/3 favourable, meaning 2/3 engaged at maximum efficency according to certain sets of standards

Some of the following should give you a flavor of how the term is being used in U.S. business management circles.

From a March 2007 article:

"For several years now, 'employee engagement' has been a hot topic in corporate circles. It's a buzz phrase that has captured the attention of workplace observers and HR managers, as well as the executive suite. And it's a topic that employers and employees alike think they understand, yet can't articulate very easily.

...

The Conference Board looked across this mass of data and came up with a blended definition and key themes that crossed all of the studies. They define employee engagement as "a heightened emotional connection that an employee feels for his or her organization, that influences him or her to exert greater discretionary effort to his or her work"."

http://www.management-issues.com/2007/3/8/opinion/employee-e...

AND from 2008

"According to a recent Gallup study on employee engagement, about 54 percent of employees in the United States are not engaged and 17 percent are disengaged. Only 29 percent are engaged. Think about the potential opportunity for human resources to tackle this challenge. In this article we present the business case for engagement you can share with your leaders and a model for creating and implementing a culture of engagement.

Definition of employee engagement

Employee engagement is defined in many ways including, "we know it when we see it."

We prefer the following definitions:

Employees are engaged when many different levels of employees are feeling fully involved and enthusiastic about their jobs and their organizations.
Engagement is the willingness and ability to contribute to company success � the extent to which employees put discretionary effort into their work, in the form of extra time, brainpower and energy" according to a Towers Perrin study."

http://www.boston.com/jobs/nehra/062308.shtml

Stephanie Ezrol
United States
Local time: 01:18
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 12

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