{"id":1186353,"date":"2020-05-25T16:03:41","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T21:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1024945"},"modified":"2020-05-25T16:03:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T21:03:41","slug":"advancing-employee-engagement-in-mining-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1186353","title":{"rendered":"Advancing employee engagement in mining \u2014 report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Employee engagement and soft skills have never been more important for the mining industry, the Global Mining Guidelines Group (GMG) outlines in a recent report focused on advancing employee engagement in mining. <\/p>\n<p>GMG authored the paper to share industry insights with the global community, such as the Workforce of the Future Working Group, launching soon. <\/p>\n<p>A number of converging<br \/>\nfactors are changing the industry such as advanced digital technologies,<br \/>\nemerging generations with&nbsp;different priorities around work,&nbsp;and<br \/>\nincreased social and environmental awareness, GMG asserts. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All of these changes<br \/>\naffect the workforce, sometimes introducing new challenges, while also offering<br \/>\nnew opportunities around employee engagement. <\/p>\n<p><em>Advancing Employee Engagement in Mining<\/em> describes employee engagement and disengagement from the perspective of the individual, organization and community and offers ideas for how to foster engagement and address disengagement. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-25-at-1.32.01-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1024946\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-25-at-1.32.01-PM.png 701w, https:\/\/www.mining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-25-at-1.32.01-PM-300x149.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><figcaption>Source: Global Mining Guidelines Group<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe public, regulators and governments are becoming increasingly aware of social and environmental issues. It is more important than ever to have trust between society and industry, industry and community, and employees and employers, GMG says. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaking sure mines are safe and healthy places to work, making sure workplaces are diverse and inclusive, and developing strong relationships with local communities are becoming key factors in maintaining the social license to operate. Employee engagement is a key factor in all of this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the <\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"full report here.  (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/gmggroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Employee-Engagment-MECA-Symposium-GMG-White-Paper-2020-05-12.pdf\" ><em>full report here. <\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soft skills have never been more important for the mining industry, the Global Mining Guidelines Group says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2648,624,369,2857],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1186353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1186354,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186353\/revisions\/1186354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1186353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1186353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1186353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}