Nickel in demand

• Engaged employees are 87% less
likely to leave their organizations than
disengaged employees are.
• Employees with lower engagement
levels are four times more likely to
leave their jobs than those who are
highly engaged.
Dickmeyer suggested that companies
perform a value stream map of the time,
effort, and costs to replace a single
plant floor worker. “The whole process
of someone deciding they don’t want
to work for the company any longer,
their departure, interviewing and hiring
a replacement for the position, utilizes
more company time and resources
than most management team members
ever considered. It is wasteful and as
far away from a lean best-practice,”
argued Dickmeyer.
engagement can be easily verified
by relating to the financial impact of
employee retention and employee
engagement. Some of the key findings
cited include:
• 70% of companies say that retaining
talent is their top HR challenge this year.
• 44% of employees in North America
say they may or will leave their current
organization within the next 12 months.
• Losing an employee can cost an
organization up to 213% of the
employee’s equivalent annual salary.
“A high level of employee
engagement will always
keep your staff on board
for longer”
Employee Communication the
Engine that Drives Employee
Engagement and Retention
People Driven Performance (PDP)
Solutions is a software development
company providing an internal, innovative,
and interactive communications system
for manufacturing plant floor employees.
A patented combination of software and
touch-sensitive employee information
kiosks bring vital and important
information to the plant floor in a nondesk
employee environment. As discussed
earlier employee engagement results in
quantifiable productivity improvement.
The impacts of improved internal
communications, via interactive design,
delivers an employee-centric engagement
system driving improved employee
retention, best-practice lean productivity,
and increased bottom-line profitability.
Dickmeyer was adamant that the
efficacy of employee communication has
much to do with how the information
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