In a recent survey of over 1400 Chief Information Officers from blue chip organisations, only around 10% allowed full access to social networking sites such as Facebook to staff.

Lots has been written about how this frustrates workers (particularly, younger ones, the so-called Generation Y). This is true and can have a destructive impact on trust and engagement. Perhaps of more interest to some CEOs, banning Facebook can cost the and result in lost opportunity.

talentsmoothie’s Simon walker explores.

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The case for employee engagement is now well established – engaged employees are more successful and productive employees.

Few would doubt that, it makes common sense. For the doubters the MacLeod report lays out the evidence of the return on investment of improving engagement, including the data produced by Gallup who, in 2006 examined 23,910 business units and compared top quartile and bottom quartile financial performance with engagement scores.

Sally Bibb explores this and the missing ingredient

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We’ve noticed a shift in thinking on Generation Y recently.

Forward thinking organisations are no longer singling out Generation Y as a problem in isolation to solve, but more as part of a diversity agenda and specifically generational diversity.  Some organisations are realising that to solve generational conflict in the work place they need to understand more about their generational demographic – how many of each generation do they have?  Organisations with a good mix of generations in their workforce are looking for help to improve understanding between the generations under the guise of generational diversity.   …

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Members of the London HR Connection meet monthly to lunch, network with their peers and hear from leading figures in the industry. Over lunch at November’s event more than 50 members heard from Sally Bibb, a co-founder and director of leadership and talent consultancy, talentsmoothie, who argued that understanding how to attract, engage and manage Generation Y will be an important competitive differentiator for organisations.

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