EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT: THE KEY TO IMPROVING PERFORMANCE

Authors

  • Rutwick Mukesh Bhai Vyas

Keywords:

Employee engagement, Employee commitment, Organizational citizenship behaviour, Job satisfaction

Abstract

Employee engagement is a vast construct that touches almost all parts of human resource management facets we know hitherto. If every part of human resources is not addressed in appropriate manner, employees fail to fully engage themselves in their job in the response to such kind of mismanagement. The construct employee engagement is built on the foundation of earlier concepts like job satisfaction, employee commitment and Organizational citizenship behaviour. Though it is related to and encompasses these concepts, employee engagement is broader in scope. Employee engagement is stronger predictor of positive organizational performance clearly showing the two-way relationship between employer and employee compared to the three earlier constructs: job satisfaction, employee commitment and organizational citizenship behaviour. Engaged employees are emotionally attached to their organization and highly involved in their job with a great enthusiasm for the success of their employer, going extra mile beyond the employment contractual agreement.

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2023-03-30

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Vyas, R. M. B. . (2023). EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT: THE KEY TO IMPROVING PERFORMANCE. The Journal of Contemporary Issues in Business and Government, 29(1), 277–285. Retrieved from https://cibgp.com/au/index.php/1323-6903/article/view/2486

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