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#5: What Employees Want (Hint: CSR Plays A Part)
By Kate Olsen
Last week, Fast Company featured an article by Bill Catlette and Richard Hadden on “How to Foster Outrageously Awesome Employee Engagement”. The article is an excerpt from their book Contented Cows Still Give Better Milk, Revised and Expanded: The Plain Truth about Employee Engageme... (now on my reading list!).
While I was reading the article, I couldn’t help making clear connections between Catlette and Hadden’s recommendations for fostering a productive, vibrant and fulfilling work environment and what I know to be effective for employee-driven corporate responsibility (CSR) efforts. While the words “corporate responsibility” never appear in this article, the connection is implied: a company that cares about its employees and respects them as individuals will undoubtedly respect the ecosystem of stakeholders in which it conducts business.
