Biggest Gains in Employee Engagement in the Management Top 250

Among the Management Top 250 companies with the 10 biggest gains in employee engagement
and development, International Business Machines Corp. is ranked highest overall, at No. 3. Merck
& Co. is ranked No. 11 overall.

Telling that they don't specify whether it's positive or negative engagement. . .

By: Gerard Yates
April 20, 2021 9:00 am ET

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FMC Corp. posted the biggest gain among companies in the latest Management Top 250 in its score for employee engagement and development, followed by Owens Corning and Ball Corp.

The annual Management Top 250 ranking, developed by the Drucker Institute, measures corporate effectiveness by examining performance in five categories: customer satisfaction, employee engagement and development, innovation, social responsibility and financial strength.

In the 2020 ranking, FMC’s score for employee engagement and development rose 12.8 points from 2019 to 59.4, Owens Corning’s score in the category climbed 8.7 points to 62.7 and Ball’s employee score rose 8.4 points to 57. Eversource had the next-biggest gain for the category among the Management Top 250, with its score rising 8.3 points to 68.3. That’s the highest score for the Top 250 companies with the 10 biggest gains in the category and places Eversource at No. 25 for employee engagement and development among the more than 800 companies Drucker studied.

FMC is ranked No. 110 overall. Among the Management Top 250 companies with the 10 biggest gains in employee engagement and development, International Business Machines Corp. is ranked highest overall, at No. 3. Merck & Co. is ranked No. 11 overall.

See the full list of the Management Top 250 companies with the biggest gains in employee engagement and development below. You can see the companies with the biggest gains in innovation here, financial strength here, customer satisfaction here and social responsibility here.

You can also explore the full, detailed rankings here, and a list of the 2020 Management Top 250 all-stars, companies that excelled in all five categories, here.

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Engasement is also defined as "A fight or battle between armed forces." That is the only sort of engagement IBM Management excel in!

I tried to get to the bottom of this - googled "Drucker Employee Engagement and Development" - of all Drucker Institute metrics going towards Corporate Effectiveness: "Customer Satisfaction = 15%; Employee Engagement and Development = 20%; Innovation = 22%; Social Responsibility = 22%; and Financial Strength = 21%".. most of these are intuitive to me (ie I could come up with what are some of the likely indicators), but "Employee Engagement and Development"? .. especially where IBM does well here??.. I mean .. like .. wtf ?!?!

So Peter D has 7 (secret(?)) indicators used, and if only 5 of those apply to the specific company, then only those 5 are used.. like any polling company, they sell the results and not the secret sauce of process specifics.

excerpt from https://www.drucker.institute/methodology-for-the-drucker-institutes-company-rankings/

EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT

“The enterprise must be able to give [its employees] a vision and a sense of mission. It must be able to satisfy their desire for a meaningful contribution to their community and society.”
“There…is the task of building and leading organizations in which every person sees herself as a ‘manager’ and accepts the full burden of what is basically managerial responsibility: responsibility for her own job and work group [and] for her contribution to the performance and results of the entire organization.”
“Whenever excellence appears, it must be recognized.… Rewards must be based on performance.”
“Developing talent is business’ most important task.”

When companies take these four elements into account and incorporate them into their leaf systems, behavior systems and decision-making true employee engagement can occur. Simple lip service will not suffice.

So the one thing I ask of media companies (like WSJ) and politicians today (all of them): Please Stop Lying

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