Region
Engaged
Not Engaged
Actively Disengaged
U.S. and Canada
29%
54%
18%
Australia and New Zealand
24%
60%
16%
Latin America
21%
60%
19%
Commonwealth of Independent States and neighboring countries
18%
62%
21%
Western Europe
14%
66%
20%
Southeast Asia
12%
73%
14%
Central and Eastern Europe
11%
63%
26%
Middle East and North Africa
10%
55%
35%
South Asia
10%
61%
29%
Sub-Saharan Africa
10%
57%
33%
East Asia
6%
68%
26%
As for the region of Central and Eastern Europe, which includes the Czech Republic, the most engaged employees are in Poland (17%). The Czech Republic remains in the third to last place with 8%, ahead of Turkey (7%) and Croatia (3%). Not engaged employees make up 62% and actively disengaged employees make up 30% of all employees in the Czech Republic.
Most of the engaged employees in the region are managers (26%), professionals (18%) and administrative staff (13%). The least engaged are workers in farming, fishing and forestry (2%). With regard to education, university graduates are the most engaged (17%), followed by those who have only a primary school education (11%) and secondary school graduates (10%).
(Source: Gallup - State of the Global Workforce)
State | Engaged | Not Engaged | Actively Disengaged |
Poland | 17% | 68% | 15% |
Estonia | 16% | 64% | 20% |
Latvia | 13% | 72% | 15% |
Bulgaria | 12% | 68% | 21% |
Macedonia | 12% | 57% | 32% |
Albania | 11% | 69% | 20% |
Montenegro | 11% | 58% | 31% |
Slovak Republic | 11% | 69% | 20% |
Hungary | 11% | 56% | 33% |
Lithuania | 10% | 62% | 28% |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | 9% | 58% | 33% |
Czech Republic | 8% | 62% | 30% |
Turkey | 7% | 60% | 33% |
Croatia | 3% | 65% | 32% |
According to the conclusions of the Gallup study, organizations that achieve the highest levels of employee engagement integrate it into the following four key areas:
Corporate strategy and philosophy of leadership
Accountability and performance
Communication and knowledge management
Development and education
The study involved 73,752 respondents over 18 years from 141 countries and another 151,335 respondents from the U.S.. The respondents answered 12 questions related to their performance, the so-called Gallup Q12 .
More information about the methodology, as well as more detailed results can be found directly in the State of the Global Workplace study which is freely available for download on this page.
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