INSEAD Knowledgecasts-Building Employee Commitment

INSEAD Knowledgecasts

Building on my previous post about future of management in talent intensive worlds, I just found a great podcast from INSEAD Charles Galunic, Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Dean of the EMBA Programme called "Building Employee Commitment" (Knowledgecast nº 8).

Amongst other things, he reached to a similar conclusion to the one I mentioned. Based on some research they found that companies do two types of investments for their employees:
- Firm specific, very much related to the specific characteristics of that firm
- General investment, that in turn make people more mobile (I called it more employable) like general management, leadership development or technology.
They found out that investments made in more general things, actually secure more commitment from employees!!

Of course this is a much better way to put it, but we share the same underlying idea.