@anonymous My employer just announced their annual employee engagement survey. I still haven’t figured out the utility of this pointless exercise.

She thinks it's a good idea, but do I look like I want to complete an Employee Engagement Survey?

I just got that tweet.  What’s your reaction?

As soon as it came in, I wanted to re-tweet and comment, but it was already about 140 characters and it deserved better than editing.

Kind of ironic that Employee Engagement is at an all-time low and the very exercise of completing an Employee Engagement survey is in itself a disengaging activity.

If employees think it is pointless, they believe no change will take place.  And they believe no change will take place because that’s been their experience thus far.  Don’t organizations already know the problems, but they aren’t taking the action to make the changes?

I stand firm that organizations don’t need extravagant Employee Engagement surveys, systems, or strategies.  What they need to do is to deliver competent management and leadership.  Solve that problem, and you’ll never need another Employee Engagement survey again.  Then your employees can spend their time on activities that are on point.

Note: “Anonymous” is not the real name of the tweeter.