{"id":1435,"date":"2012-08-13T15:54:04","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T14:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2012-09-26T15:53:08","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T14:53:08","slug":"expert-comment-spinning-plates-and-juggling-hats-engagement-in-an-era-of-austerity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2012\/08\/expert-comment-spinning-plates-and-juggling-hats-engagement-in-an-era-of-austerity\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert comment &#8211; Spinning plates and juggling hats: engagement in an era of austerity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/kbs\/profiles\/staff\/truss_katie.html\">Professor Katie Truss<\/a>, Professor of Management and Director of Studies of the Postgraduate Certificate in Employee Engagement at Kent Business School, University of Kent, comments in the CIPD&#8217;s Lens on engagement.<\/p>\n<p>It is regrettably all too easy for discussions of engagement to be of the \u2018motherhood and apple pie\u2019 variety. I was thinking about this when I was watching the film Sister Act recently, where Whoopi Goldberg\u2019s character Sister Mary Clarence takes a motley, uninspired and fairly tuneless choir of nuns and, through some chutzpah, inspirational leadership, and a judicious reminder of the importance of rehearsal, turns them in next to no time into an all-singing, all-dancing disco-choir, fit to entertain a foot-tapping Pontiff. Sometimes, it seems as though we\u2019re being persuaded all we need is a little Mary Clarence magic to turn our humdrum staff into high-flying, fully engaged stars.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest of the article &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/files\/2012\/08\/5942-SOP-Lens-on-engagement-WEB-2.pdf\">Lens on engagement &#8211; Spinning plates and juggling hats: engagement in an era of austerity<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/files\/2012\/08\/5942-SOP-Lens-on-engagement-WEB.pdf\"><br \/>\n<\/a>Read Professor Truss&#8217; comment piece on the <a title=\"Expert comment: The Beecroft Report \u2013 controversial recommendations for the reform of UK employment law\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2012\/05\/expert-comment-the-beecroft-report-controversial-recommendations-for-the-reform-of-uk-employment-law\/\">Beecroft Report<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Katie Truss, Professor of Management and Director of Studies of the Postgraduate Certificate in Employee Engagement at Kent Business School, University of Kent, comments &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2012\/08\/expert-comment-spinning-plates-and-juggling-hats-engagement-in-an-era-of-austerity\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17593],"tags":[17600],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1561,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions\/1561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}