Improvement Strategies of Employee Engagement in Organization
Employee engagement directly impact
for organization success & often confused with happiness &
satisfaction,real meaning of employee engagement is employee’s psychological
investment in organization(Nasution & Absah,2019).
Simply detailed, engaged employees are
less likely to leave jobs, to keep employee engagement organization should
follow better strategies, create a partnership, Involve employees,let team in on
the plan, provide feedback on performance, keep promises, create a productive work
environment, managing performance ,encourage open communication,trust,carrer
oppertunities,pay,celebrate both financial & non financial
achievement, thank team(Sima & Vardhan,2015).
Employee engagement directly influence
to organizational success, organization should improve the engagement strategies to have better
engagement,HRM practices, work environment, job satisfaction, organizational
culture, employee-supervisor relationship(Kaliannan & Adjovu,2014).Key
drivers of employee engagement are existed about one’s work, contribution is
valued, leadership has communicated a motivating vision, opportunity for growth
& development, confidence in organization’s future, organization’s corporate
responsibility efforts increase overall satisfaction(Saji,2014).
Few strategies should implement to
boost employee engagement, ensuring psychological safety, freedom to express
views and decision making, sense of mutual respect and understanding, boosting
culture of Innovation and entrepreneurial spirit, experiential learning for
growth and development, developing employee competency and capabilities(Rana
& Chopra,2019).
Only 15% of employees are
engaged worldwide according to studies, the result creates lower sales,
productivity, customer service and morale. This costs companies billions of
lost revenue and profit. Above leadership training video shows you how to change
all of that. You will learn 10 proven and practical methods to not only
engage employees but to motivate.
Video1.0: How to increase Employee Engagement.
(Source: Conlow, 2014)
The company which I work is leading Manufacturing company that conduct employee innovation awards programs yearly. employees are encouraged to review innovative contributions to organization, Innovation at organization begins with an employee who thinks out of the box and presents an idea in such a way that makes co-workers want to collaborate, and leaders choose to champion. The outcome may be a successful improvement, a capacity or efficiency gain, or a profit for the company with highly engaged employees.
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Very informative post! I would also suggest that the prominence of employee engagement should not be underestimated. It applies to the intense attention the employee has towards the organization. The shortage of it drives to weak consumer fulfillment, reduced employee productivity, and colossal personnel turnover (Shannon, 2019).
ReplyDeleteYes Harsha, employees are the key resources of the organization, employer should manage the relationship successfully to get the long-term market advantage otherwise labor turnover will increase & productivity will go down(Motyka,2018)
DeleteAgreed with your view and in addition to this, in globally engaged employees are only 13% and rest of them are not engaged or less engaged thus organizations must focus and identified the less engaged people and changed their mid set to perform well as organization performance depends on employees’ outcome further organizations end objective should be linked with employees’ performance appraisal (Schrita Osborne, 2017).
ReplyDeleteThanks Uddika,Employees more engaged with organization they are highly productive & effecient,employee engagement & organization performance has positive emotional connection, employee who engaged with organization more he directly impact to enhance organization performance(Koech & Cheboi,2018).
DeleteAgree with you Sandun. Employee engagement takes place when people at work are interested in and positive, even excited, about their jobs and are prepared to go the extra mile to get them done to the best of their ability(Armstrong,M.,2009)
ReplyDeleteExactly, that's why organization need proactive, initiative, self-directed and responsible employees for their own development and performance, organizational productivity is determined by the effort of the employees(Larasati & Hasanati,2018).
DeleteOf course Sandun, employee engagement can be absolutely pivotal to the success or failure of an organization. Through employee engagement strategies, an organization can achieve higher productivity and profit, customer satisfaction with lower levels of employee accidents and turnovers. The concept of Self-Determination Theory (SDT) enables employees to hold positive attitudes toward their organization, since employee motivation is attributed to the concepts of the SDT (Osborne and Hammoud, 2017).
ReplyDeleteYes, Engagement is fundamentally an emotional response if the employees are positively engaged, performance are good, if the employees are negatively engaged performance are bad(Gangwani,2016).
DeleteExactly Sandun, Fleming and Asplund (2007, p.2) defines employee engagement as 'the ability to capture the heads, hearts, and souls of your employees to instill an intrinsic desire and passion for excellence'.
ReplyDeleteIn addition, When employees are engaged they try to go beyond their expected job role to give the best service possible in order to achieve the organizational goals (Anitha, 2014).
Yes, employee engagement’ as ‘the state in which the individuals are emotionally and
Deleteintellectually committed to the organization’s objectives, organization receive more outcome than they expected from engaged employees(Mohd,2019).
Yes Sandun and adding, Employees engagement Vital role in an organizational culture in an organization.
ReplyDeleteThe employee engagement is a workplace approach resulting in the right conditions for all members of an organization to give of their best each day, committed to their organisation’s goals and values, with an enhancThe employee engagement is a workplace approach resulting in the right conditions for all members of an organisation to give of their best each day, committed to their organisation’s goals and values, with an enhanced sense of their own well-being (Engage for Success.org, 2020).
Yes Eranga, employee engagement is an important factor to organizational performance. Therefore, employers should pay attention to recruiting quality employees with the necessary skills & knowledge(Cheche,2017).
DeleteI agree with you sandun. Further The longevity of an organization is affected by employee
ReplyDeleteengagement, which is a factor on the financial performance of the organization (Bersin, 2014).
Employee engagement is the level of commitment and involvement towards his organization, engaged employees are aware about the organization business demand & they are working to improve performance(Sharmilla,2018).
DeleteExactly Sadun employee engagement directly impacts on organizational success as such, it is a must to identify the drivers of the employee engagement which enhance the employee engagement in an organization such as Feedback, counseling and mentoring, Fair reward, recognition and incentive scheme, Effective leadership, Clear job expectations, Adequate tools to perform work responsibilities and Motivation (Mehta & Mehta,2013).
ReplyDeleteYes Gagana,Employee engagement is found to have a positive relationship with individual performance, the research findings show that there are three factors in previous studies, lack of research on demographic variables, behavior and cultural differences in employee engagement(Sun & Bunchapattanasakda,2019).
DeleteAgree with you Sadun that rewards-related programs might have an impact on employee engagement and these do not have to be financial rewards (McMullen et al., 2010). Adding to your point, researches show that that employee engagement in turn results in decline in employees’ turnover intentions and increase in innovative work related behaviour (Chandani et al., 2016).
ReplyDeleteYes Sathaharan,employees are the backbone of the company, employer should encourage the employee to enhance employee engagement which has taken significant role in the company, if the employee engagement are good company can achieve their targets very easily(Barden,2018).
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