How to Build an Effective and Flexible Workplace to Drive Employee Recruitment, Retention and Engagement
Getting your organization’s employee value proposition right is key to having a competitive advantage in recruiting, retaining and engaging talent. But how do you know what employees want? This session will reveal important findings from the 2016 National Study of the Changing Workforce (NSCW), the largest ongoing study of a national representative sample of U.S. employees, including the recently released SHRM Effective Workplace Index, an evidence-based seven-component index of working conditions that benefit employees and employers alike. The seven components are 1) job challenge and learning opportunities; 2) supervisor support for job success; 3) autonomy; 4) culture of respect, trust and belonging; 5) work/life fit; 6) satisfaction with wages, benefits and opportunities to advance; and 7) co-worker support for job success. NSCW findings reveal that effective and flexible workplaces support strong retention, engagement and other critical people outcomes including improved health, among others. This session will highlight:
• What employees want from current and prospective employers.
• How employers are responding to the changing workforce and employee needs.
• The seven components of an effective workplace and how to create an effective and flexible workplace.
Ellen Galinsky
Ellen Galinsky, President of Families and Work Institute, has been a trailblazer in the work-family and early childhood fields. She is a prolific writer with more than 100 books and reports and 300 articles, which include the best-selling Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs. Ms. Galinsky co-directs the most comprehensive ongoing studies of the U.S. workforce and workplace as well as When Work Works which, in partnership with the Society for Human Resource Management, provides an award for workplace effectiveness and flexibility.
Ms. Galinsky has been a presenter at numerous White House Conferences and was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources in 2005. She is the recipient of many awards including the Distinguished Achievement Award from Vassar College, Seven Wonders of the Work Life World from Working Mother magazine and the Friend of Children Award from the Southern Early Childhood Association.