Complete Part 1-4 worksheet

Assignment Instructions

Part One — Conduct a Self-assessment

In this Part 1 of the assignment , you will further your understanding of engagement and engagement behaviors by completing a self-assessment.

Describe your experiences being engaged in a job role (your current job role or a previous role) and contrast that with your experience being neutral or actively disengaged.

Describe the two situations, highlighting how different they felt, as well as the different outcomes associated with the high versus low levels of engagement (for you, your work group, and/or the organization).

Part Two — Conduct a Needs Assessment

In this Part 2 of the assignment , you will conduct a needs assessment by reflecting on the existing workplace factors that may be at the root of suboptimal levels of engagement.

Reflect on which issues associated with the three different drivers of engagement — psychological meaningfulness, psychological safety, and psychological availability — may represent potential explanations for the suboptimal levels of engagement.

Summarize your hypothesis about the two or three factors you believe might be most important to address in an effort to increase engagement.

Part Three — Report Work Group Survey Results

In this Part 3 of the assignment , you will use the Survey Your Work Group tool within a particular work group to find out how engaged the employees say they are, then you will summarize the results. This survey tool is a helpful method of determining how engaged people are. Remember that the majority of employees report being neutral or disengaged.

Distribute the following survey questions to employees in any given team or work group. (If you are not currently employed, you may choose to ask a friend permission to survey his or her work group, or ask permission to survey a work group such as within your favorite local library, neighborhood coffee shop, or any other site of your choosing that you think would be appropriate and willing.)

You may find it most appropriate to distribute the survey and collect responses anonymously. Add up the scores you received from everyone. Consider that a 3 is a neutral score. In general, the higher the scores, the higher the level of engagement is indicated.

Part Four — Choose Strategies for Improving Engagement

One reason engagement efforts may be disappointing is that some companies try to transform a lot of cultural dynamics all at once. Professor Nishii suggests that managers will get better results when they start with a few smaller successes, which then provide a basis for expanding. 

In this Part 4 of this assignment ,

Examine recommended management strategies based on the drivers of engagement. They all relate to the conditions for engagement and are all within the sphere of influence of individual line managers.

Identify which ones you think will be most helpful to your efforts in improving engagement in your workplace.

· Cohesive response based on scenario provided and Lectures information

· No Plagiarism