Mankato, MN -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/21/2014 -- In the current issue of Automation & Controls Today, manufacturing journalist Thomas R. Cutler, explored the relationship between employee engagement and retaining skilled employees. In the article, titled, “Employee Engagement, Employee Retention and Employee Communication,” Cutler explained engaged employees stay with companies for a long time.

Manufacturers are having the hardest time filling skilled production jobs that fuel their ability to innovate and grow, even in the face of high unemployment. Efforts to develop the skills of current employees are falling, and technology advancement without a future workforce puts manufacturers at great risk. Retaining great employees keeps hiring and training costs low. Retaining employees can only be achieved with consistent and effective employee communication.

According to Louise Dickmeyer, President of PDP Solutions, “Engaged employees produce quality products causing a direct impact on manufacturers’ bottom line. Increased employee engagement can be evaluated by the attention paid to customers, product quality, colleagues, and employer’s interests. Engaged employees are healthier, take fewer sick days, arrive for work on time more often, spend less time looking at the clock, and focus more on work excellence.”

Automation & Controls Today is a well-respected international business-to-business media organization that specializes in both print and online media coverage.

About People Driven Performance
People Driven Performance (PDP) is a software development company providing an internal, innovative, and interactive communications system for manufacturing plant floor employees. Patented combination of software and touch-sensitive employee information kiosks bring vital and important information to the plant floor in a non-desk employee environment. PDP proves that Employee Engagement results in quantifiable productivity improvement.

The impacts of improved internal communications, via interactive design, delivers an employee-centric engagement system driving improved employee retention, best-practice lean productivity, and increased bottom-line profitability.

Unlike desktop solutions promising better engagement, The PDP solution (http://www.pdpsolutions.com) is uniquely suited to on-the-move plant floor production employees ensuring a simple and straightforward way to access key company metrics and other information. The result is full participation and understanding of the functions, status, and standing of the company. Employee communication ensures a personal responsibility for well-being of management and colleagues with whom they work each day.

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PDP Solutions
http://www.pdpsolutions.com
Louise Dickmeyer
President
PR@pdpsolutions.com
507-382-7756