Part IV–Measuring Employee Engagement
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The Price of UnEngagement
Activity Description Time Guideline: 45 minutes
Purpose
To illustrate how much it could be costing to not engage employees at work
Description
A model is introduced that measures the costs of not engaging employees, or in other words, the Price of
UnEngagement (POUE).
Resources
Handouts 21.1 and 21.2
Presentation
• Begin the activity by explaining that typically we think in terms of what something is going to cost when
making a decision whether to invest in it or not. But what about the cost of not investing in something
such as employee engagement? What might the cost of such a decision ultimately be? In other words,
how much time, energy, resources, and business are ...