ADP CEO Maria Black says employees who trust their CEO and senior leaders are 41% more likely to be engaged at work
Source: Fortune ·
In a conversation with Fortune’s Diane Brady, the CEO of the payroll and HR giant said there’s a pretty simple way to boost engagement, but it takes real work.
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If companies want more engaged workers, ADP CEO Maria Black says CEOs and senior leaders should start by asking themselves if employees trust them. Speaking with Fortune executive editorial director Diane Brady at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit in California this week, Black said trust and engagement gang together. Employees who trust the people around then at work with are 60% more likely to be dialed in, she told Brady, “Trust is a direct corollary to engagement,” said Black. “So if we want to drive engagement, productivity, and a vibrant world of work that, candidly, I want to be in and I want my children to grow up working, we have to focus there.” ADP’s finding turns some current thinking about employees being lackadaisical or blasé about work squarely on its head. Engagement is often seen as a metric about sentiment that can be measured and tracked, but is treated as something employees bring—or fail to bring—to their jobs. ADP’s data implies it depends pretty heavily on…