David Cameron backs new employee engagement initiative

UK Prime Minister David Cameron has given his backing to a new independent Employee Engagement Task Force which will share good practice, generate debate and offer support via a new website

The Task Force, to be chaired by David MacLeod, will ensure that there will be opportunities for organisations wanting to learn about engagement. It will share good practice, generate debate and offer support via a new website, details of which will be announced shortly.

 It builds on the report ‘Engaging for Success’, which David MacLeod and Nita Clarke produced in 2009 for BIS. The Prime Minister said: “I am delighted that the Employment Engagement Taskforce has come together to develop practical ways to help all employers learn from the best, to break down barriers to engagement and to raise the profile of this whole agenda.”

The Task Force will work with leading academics, practitioners and think tanks. It will report back next year on the strategies it recommends that organisations should adopt to promote best practice and learning.

It will also tackle key issues identified in the MacLeod Review such as barriers to wider adoption of engagement, how to harness engagement for innovation, and how to maintain morale through difficult challenges such as downsizing.