Employee Involvement

How well do you engage your team in meaningful work, share the right information, and involve them in finding solutions? This assessment gives leaders concrete feedback on their participative leadership practices—as a self-assessment or with multi-rater input from up to 5 observers.

What It Measures

Employee Involvement measures three areas that research shows drive engagement and performance when leaders get them right:

How It Works

Employee Involvement can be used as a self-assessment or as a multi-rater assessment. In self-assessment mode, the leader reflects on their own participative practices. In multi-rater mode, the leader also invites up to 5 observers (direct reports, peers, or managers) to provide their perspective. Each respondent completes 25 paired-comparison items, indicating which of two leadership behaviors better describes the leader and how strongly.

Reports compare self-perception against observer ratings, revealing blind spots and hidden strengths in participative leadership. The gap analysis shows where leaders see themselves differently than their team does—the most powerful catalyst for development.

Who Uses This

• Coaches: Build involvement skills in leaders who struggle to engage their teams
• Workshop facilitators: Run a focused 2-4 hour session on participative leadership
• Leadership programs: Combine with other Achieving Leader assessments for a complete development journey
• Manager development: Help new managers learn to involve rather than direct

The Science

• Based on the Access Management model of participative leadership
• Normative data from 4,680 working adults in management roles
• Thurstonian IRT scoring with percentile reporting
• Bilingual English/Spanish