management-issues has a special section dedicated to employee engagement. It begins with a warning: "employee disengagement is a global epidemic, organisations still clearly have much work to do to ensure that their workforce can be properly inspired and motivated."

In their roadmap for employee engagement, they give the following advice on leadership:

Business journals are brim full with articles about leadership. Ignore them – they are all far too complicated. Effective organisational leadership is simple

1. have a vision of where you want to get to,

2. clearly and persuasively communicate that vision to employees, and

3. be consistent in your behaviours as strive to achieve that vision. Do this and your employees will follow. Fail and you will be out there on you own.

Tags: employee+engagement, leadership