Factors Affecting Employee Engagement: a Brief Review of literature (original) (raw)

Employee Engagement: A Review Paper on Factors Afecting Employee Engagement

Background/Objectives:The objective of this article is to clarify what is meant by employee engagement and why it is important (particularly with respect to its effect on employee retention and performance), as well as to identify factors that are critical to its effective implementation.Methods/Statistical Analysis: For this study, researchers have used review method. Under the process of review around thirty academic and popular research papers/ literature in the area of employee engagement, researchers have come up with different factors which are mostly commonly mentioned in these research papers. The review process aims at strengthening existing literature. After studying all the factors in each research paper, authors have taken the findings.Findings:In this research paper, various factors have been discussed of engagements which are at macro i.e. at organisational level and micro level i.e. at individual level. These variations in factors may arise due to differences in individual and job characteristics, gender diversity; ethnic diversity etc. Suggestions presented in this paper include different employee engagement approaches for new employees like strong induction programs, rigorous training and development programme, certification programme and giving them a realistic job preview. The findings of this study will be useful to any organisation, irrespective of the type of business, to construct strong employee engagement policy with mix of all these factors of employee engagement. Managers can redesign the work and policy on the basis of the factors presented in this paper would lead to happy workforce. This article will be ofvalue to anyone seeking better understanding in employee engagement to improve organisation performance.Applications/Improvements:Study results has scope offuture reference where by implementing various engagement factors and there by reduction in employee turnover and improved productivity

A study on impact of selected factors on employee engagement

The importance of employee engagement had been explained in this paper. A structured questionnaire has been used for primary data collection and employees from different organizations have participated in survey. Employee engagement is perceived as an independent activity and it not influenced by factors like job engagement, emotional engagement and cognitive engagement.

A STUDY ABOUT THE FACTORS AFFECTING EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT AND ITS OUTCOMES

IAEME PUBLICATION, 2020

Employee engagement is one of the important drivers for successful organizations. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the factors affecting employee engagement at macro level, i.e., organizational-related factors, personal-related factors, teamrelated factors & job-related factors. By reviewing various literature studies, the researcher found that theses all factors influencing the employees for higher level of engagement in organizations. Thus, leads to better employee performance & productivity and reducing the turnover intention. This paper suggesting that organizations must frequently check the employee performance management so as that they would able to find; in which factor that influencing the employees for low engagement. By doing so, the organizations can able to thriving in their performance & productivity

Analysis of various constructs of Employee Engagement: A Literature Review Study

Primax International Journal of Commerce and Management Research, 2020

Employees are the most important resource for any organisation, the more important point is that where engaged employees are assets for an organisation while unengaged employees prove to be a burden or liability for it. So Employee Engagement is playing an important role from last 30 or more years in dealing with HR issues. The main objective is to study the concept of Employee engagement in detail and also discuss factors that are affected by engagement and that through which engagement is affected. The researcher will identify various components of Employee Engagement and its importance for the organisation. Benefits of engagement are also discussed. The methodology use by the author is qualitative and various secondary sources of collecting data like papers from various Journals are collected and only selected papers are used for collecting information. The major findings is engagement of employees results in better growth , prosperity of the organisation and engaged employees are more satisfied, healthy and productive employees. Keywords: Employee Engagement, Employee Performance, Employee.

Facets of Employee Engagement -A Literature Review

Motivated and engaged employees tend to contribute more in terms of organizational productivity and support in maintaining a higher commitment level leading to the higher customer satisfaction. Employee engagement is the level of commitment and involvement an employee has towards their organization and its values. An engaged employee is aware of business context, and works with colleagues to improve performance within the job for the benefit of the organization. It is a positive attitude held by the employees towards the organization and its values. The paper focuses on various dimensions of employee engagement with its definitions and the various frameworks. The present paper aims to understand the basic concept of employee engagement and to study the different dimensions of employee engagement with the help of review of literature. This paper is based upon review of literature and secondary data collected from various websites, journals, magazines, newspapers and reference books. Literature review has shown prior research work done in this area.

The Study on Factors Affecting Employee Engagement

International journal of engineering research and technology, 2019

The Objective of the project was to study the factors affecting Employee Engagement in HDFC bank. The study included understanding the concept, studying the employee engagement policies being followed by the organization, analysing them, taking viewpoints of employees and analysing the feedbacks received and giving recommendations for improvement. Basically Employee Engagement refers to the intellectual and emotional attachment of an employee with the Organization. The organization must work to develop and nurture engagement, which requires a two-way relationship between employer and employee’s. There are lot of factors that affect employee engagement. The main theme of the study revolves around those variables. The independent variables considered in this study are work environment, image of the organisation, incentives and pay, supervisor and co-worker relationship, training and development, decision making and policies and procedures. This study is quantitative in nature and data...

A review of employee engagement: Empirical studies

Management Science Letters

Although many companies are modernizing by maximizing the use of technology, employee management remains an important topic, where employees are the creators of policies, procedures and business strategies. Having employees with high engagement is not easy for a company. So it is always interest to discuss the factors that influence employee engagement. This study aims to analyze the role of employee engagement as a discussion of human resource management, from Khan which focuses on the condition of human psychology, and how this view was developed in the following years by other researchers. This study uses literature study techniques using qualitative methods to describe the results in a narrative and aims to assist further research. The results showed that there was an increase in the engagement topic study. This proves that the management of human resources in an organization must be carried out with high flexibility, with regard to individual rights, by involving employees in o...

Nature of Employee Engagement: Rethinking its Levels

Labor et Educatio

Employee engagement is a human resource facet. Engaged employee is the dream of every Chief executive officer. The reason is the consequence of the employee engagement, namely employee job performance and organizational financial performance. Engaged employee is the instrument of organizational success. This study is to present levels of employee engagement. To present an insight on employee engagement through a thorough desk research is another aim of the study.

Improving and Enhancing the Level of Employee Engagement in Modern Era

PARIPEX INDIAN JOURNAL OF RESEARCH

Engaged employees are the true assets and retaining them depends on their adaptation of existing and challenging culture of the organization. The employees have different attitudes and approach in their workplace environment and they continuously strive in the positive manner to achieve those pre-defined goals once they enter the organization of their choice. The role played by engagement on employees is such that the behaviour, values and the expectations of employees is directed towards the fulfilment of overall organizational goals and individual goals. The literature survey of employee engagement showed a strong relationship with the employee's performance and to enhance this association the workplace environment of an organization shall always work towards learning new things and developing the ideas that help the employees to keep themselves engaged in a long term. The findings and measures of past studies has been thoroughly studied and analysed for their relevancy in enh...

Employee Engagement: Types, Levels and Relationship with Practice of HRM

Malaysian E Commerce Journal, 2020

Human resources are important assets of every organization. Recruitment and selection play an effective role in improving the organizational performance, because recruitment directly is relating with employee engagement. Employee engagement has emerged as a popular organizational concept in recent years. Employee engagement, strangely enough, has been a crucial priority of HR since before the term was using. It has become one of the leading priorities of human resource practitioners and senior managers in the organization today, so employee engagement has generated great deal of attention among many human resource practitioners. In present day, where is large-scale competition in the market, it is necessary for the organization to have engaged workforce for the survival and smooth functioning of the organization. Every organization wants to make the best utilization of its human resources in order to achieve competitive advantage in the market. When employees are engaged in their wo...