Biggest Gains in Employee Engagement in the Management Top 250 -- Journal Report

FMC Corp. posted the biggest gain among companies in the latest Management Top 250 in its score for employee engagement and development, followed by Owens Corning and Ball Corp.

The annual Management Top 250 ranking, developed by the Drucker Institute, measures corporate effectiveness by examining performance in five categories: customer satisfaction, employee engagement and development, innovation, social responsibility and financial strength.

In the 2020 ranking, FMC's score for employee engagement and development rose 12.8 points from 2019 to 59.4, Owens Corning's score in the category climbed 8.7 points to 62.7 and Ball's employee score rose 8.4 points to 57. Eversource had the next-biggest gain for the category among the Management Top 250, with its score rising 8.3 points to 68.3. That's the highest score for the Top 250 companies with the 10 biggest gains in the category and places Eversource at No. 25 for employee engagement and development among the more than 800 companies Drucker studied.

FMC is ranked No. 110 overall. Among the Management Top 250 companies with the 10 biggest gains in employee engagement and development, International Business Machines Corp. is ranked highest overall, at No. 3. Merck & Co. is ranked No. 11 overall.

See the full list of the Management Top 250 companies with the biggest gains in employee engagement and development below. You can see the companies with the biggest gains in innovation here, financial strength here, customer satisfaction here and social responsibility here.

You can also explore the full, detailed rankings here, and a list of the 2020 Management Top 250 all-stars, companies that excelled in all five categories, here.

-- Gerard Yates

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April 20, 2021 09:14 ET (13:14 GMT)

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