Age and generational issues

Engage Your Long-Time Employees to Improve Performance

Managing talent isn’t just about new hires.

by

Jim Harter

by

Jim Harter

March 16, 2015

Let this be a wake-up call for business leaders: The employees with the longest tenures in your company are also the least likely to be engaged.

Jim Harter, Ph.D, is chief scientist, workplace management & wellbeing at Gallup, where he conducts research on the relationship between human potential and organizational outcomes, including employee engagement, profitability, productivity, turnover, customer engagement, safety, and health. Jim is the co-author of Culture Shock, publishing on May 30, 2023, as well as the Wall Street Journal 2021 bestseller Wellbeing at Work. He is also the co-author of the No. 1 Wall Street Journal and Washington Post 2019 bestseller, It’s the Manager.

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