How do you attract, motivate and retain a productive workforce? Managers face the challenge of meeting performance objectives as key players are exiting the workforce, some of the remaining talent is just going through the motions and new employees bring unique expectations to the organization. Establishing an engaged work environment helps to address these issues. Engaged employees want to remain with an institution and dedicate their full efforts. Engaged employees are passionate about achieving organizational and individual goals. Engaged employees understand their unique contributions and know that they are appreciated. Employee engagement is the extent to which people believe in, actively commit to and feel valued for their work. Employee engagement does not merely correlate with bottom line results – it produces results.

Course Purpose

This workshop is designed to help managers understand what employee engagement is and create a motivating work environment that positively impacts bottom-line results.

Objectives

• Upon completion of this course, each participant should be able to:
• Understand employee engagement and its impact on the workplace
• Assess their own level of engagement and that of their staff
• Identify some best practices in creating a “great place to work”
• Describe and apply various motivation theories
• Recognize the generational impact on motivation
• Create an action plan for their own department

This course counts as a required course toward the Management Development Certificate. It may also be taken individually without pursuing the certificate.

The courses in the Management Development Certificate suite are targeted for managers in particular job classifications. This course is open to UCLA staff and faculty managers in roles with payroll titles classified at the following levels (including equivalent IT and academic classifications):

• Roles currently classified under the Career Tracks system:
  • MGR1 through MGR4
  • Professional 4 and 5
• Roles still classified under the pre-Career Tracks system:
  • MSP – all levels
  • PSS-5 through PSS-7 

(Note, roles classified at Career Tracks Supervisor/SUPV levels — i.e., job titles that end in SUPV 1 or SUPV 2 — are generally not eligible to take this course.)

Supervisors who are not classified at the levels above but who have attained the Supervisory Leadership Principles Certificate – Enhanced and the Supervisory HR Principles Certificate are also eligible to enroll.

For additional information, see the Management Development Certificate.

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