PHWP: Abstract Detail: Building community in organizations: Principles of engagement

Focuses on ways to increase engagement in organizations. The author emphasizes six key principles that help to create a sense of community in organizations. These principles include: (1) communicating a message throughout the organization that employees buy into, (2) create a group of champions that can spread the message and help to create the engagement culture, (3) identify ways to make decisions based on principles and values rather than simply compliance, (4) identify the key engagement indicators that organizational leadership wants to focus on (important for assessment and evaluation of engagement activities), (5) create culture than supports open communication throughout all levels, and (6) develop strategies to socialize new employees, managers, and leaders. According to the author, these six principles are applicable to a wide variety of organizations.

Gravenkemper, S. (2007). Building community in organizations: Principles of engagement. Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, 59, 203–208.