Cues Podcast

During this episode of the CUES Podcast, Matthew Bidwell, Ph.D., talks about the employee engagement at NASA leading up to the lunar landing. If you asked an employee who was sweeping the floor what they were doing, they would have said, “I’m putting a man on the moon,” notes Bidwell, associate professor of management at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and a speaker at TalentNEXT in May in Austin, Texas. Sharing the vision and how each job played into larger organizational achievement was clearly successful at NASA during that time. And it can be a useful tool to leaders working to boost or sustain employee engagement today. During the episode, Bidwell talks not only about what employee engagement is, but also some do’s and don’ts for creating and sustaining it. He also talks about the importance of keeping people at the forefront of business efforts. “If we're going to be very process-centric, how do we engage people in actually creating these processes rather than