A blog article written to debate 'Employee Engagement'

Hi Freelancers WHAT WE REQUIRE: I need a blog article written on the theme of "Employee engagement - Are there any real advantages for the employer?". The article should set up an argument on this statement: "Engaged employees perform better and are more likely to identify and mitigate risk". This article will be published in our Human Resources related blog site and sent to the subscribers of our blog. HOW WE REQUIRE IT: We are looking for a writer to research various papers and articles and to put together a well thought-out argument 'for' and 'against' the idea of 'employee engagement'. We expect that all quoted articles and ideas are cited correctly with references. The blog would need to be between 750 and 1000 words maximum. It is likely to explore the following discussion points: > What is employee engagement. What does it mean for the employee and for the employer? > What is considered 'best practice' regarding this topic, i.e. what do leading companies typically do to engage their employees? What tangible / bottom line benefits are they getting from this.... if any? > Is there a difference between how 'new Silicon valley' type of organisations versus 'older traditional' type organisations in how they manage this? > Are there specific employee engagement programs that have been implemented that had great success? Why? > Is there an argument for having NO employee engagement programs? What is the argument... why would you not engage your employees? Are there any 'best practice' organisations that do not support this practice? Why? What have they found? If space allows, further themes that could be explored are: > What happens if the organisation is trying to push employee engagement but middle management don't "buy in" - they don't believe in or push the program. Does this have an adverse effect on engagement? > Is there any evidence to find that employee engagement equals higher productivity or higher quality? TYPES OF ARTICLES TO CONSIDER IN FRAMING YOUR ARGUMENT: > attached academic paper > [login to view URL] empl > [login to view URL] YOUR APPLICATION: Please let us know why you are the best person to do this job, how long it will take you and how much it will cost. Thank you, Saves9