According to a recent Gallup Q12 Employee Engagement Survey of the U.S. workforce, approximately 24.7 million workers, or nearly 20 percent of the entire workforce, are "actively disengaged," that is, almost completely disconnected from their jobs. This problem is estimate to cost the U.S. economy over $300 billion annually. In Germany various surveys stipulate that between 70 and 90 percent of employees do not think that their day-to-day work...