How Can We Engage “Actively Disengaged” Employees?
In my experience, the most actively disengaged employees are ones who are suffering from deep disappointment in their organization. They are often people who really invested their hearts and hopes in the past and were massively let down, by destructively poor management, by abandoned change and improvement initiatives they passionately supported, reorganizations that took them away from work/projects/services they loved, and the like. These folks are actively protecting themselves from investing in the organization again to avoid the real pain they’ve felt when they have put their hearts on the line in the past, either in this organization or some other place in their lives.
