ASTD Management Development Handbook: Innovation for Today's Managers

Chapter 26

Engaging Management: Put an End to Employee Engagement

David Zinger

Editor’s Note

David Zinger is absolutely right when he suggests that managers put an end to employee engagement. We are programming the magic right out of work, and our emotions, passions, and drive are going right with it. In this highly useful (albeit counterintuitive) chapter, David shares ways that managers can emerge and move away from engagement programs and toward creating workplaces that draw people in.

“What we call the beginning is often the end and to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” —T. S. Eliot, “Little Gidding” ...