Advantages of Employee Engagement of an Organization

 

Advantages of Employee Engagement of an Organization

Today, employee engagement is crucial to the success of the company. The organization cannot accomplish its goals and objectives without strong employee involvement.Employees can provide an excellent result if they become more invested in the company. In other words, employees with high levels of employee engagement are more productive and capable of producing exceptional results than those with low levels of engagement. Employee engagement is a gauge of how well-adjusted workers are to their positions and work environments. Achieving organizational goals and objectives requires raising staff morale more than anything else. staff engagement helps to improve staff morale.

Different authors have defined employee engagement differently and have also emphasized key elements of employee engagement.

Kular et al (2008) explored five key areas; what does employee engagement mean? How can engagement be managed? What are the consequences of engagement for the organization? How does engagement related to another individual characteristic? How is engagement related to employee voice and representation?

According to Kahn (1990) defines employee engagement as "the harnessing of organization members selves to their to their work roles; in engagement, people employ and express themselves physically, cognitively and emotionally during role performance. the cognitive aspect of employee engagement concern employee belief about the organization, it's leaders and working condition. The emotional aspect concerns how employees feel about each of those three factors and whether they have positive or negative attitudes towards the organization and its leaders. The physical aspect of employees engagement concern the physical energies exerted by an individual to accomplish their roles.

Thus according to Kahn (1990), engagement means to be psychologically as well as physically present when occupying and performing an organizational role.

Engage employees to work with passion and feel a profound connection to their company. They drive innovation and move the organization forward. (Gallup, 2004).

According to (Marco & Sridevi, 2010) make sure to involve the employees show respect for the impact they provide and allow them to participate in the decision making process. This will encourage their investment in the process and as a result, increase their engagement.

Most often employee has been defined as an emotional and intellectual commitment to the organization. (baumruk, 2004).

According to corporate leadership council (2004) defined employee engagement as "the extent to which employees commit to something or someone in their organization, how hard they work and how long they say as result of that commitments''.

According to Gallup et al (2006) identified key drivers closely related to employees engagement. It can be summarised as follows,

·                  Trust and Integrity: Goals and objectives should be communicated to the employees and managers should act according to given words.

·                  Nature of the job: Employees should have clear idea of their job-related challenges and face on that challenges they should be motivated.

·                  Line of sight between employees performance and company performance. The employee should know how to give their contribution to the company performance.

·                  Career growth opportunities: Every employee's career advancement and professional development in their job. Hence they should know the career pathway very clearly.

·                  Pride about the company: Everybody is like to work in the reputed esteem company.working with such a company they will get pride.

·                  Coworkers /Team Members: Building relationship and mutual understanding are very essential for healthy employee engagement.

 

Model of Employee Engagement

·                  Penna's Highrachical Model 

Pena (2007) has described hierarchical model of employee engagement. This model basically explains find how employees are looking to meaning of work. Penna also explains word of

"Meaning" as fulfilment from the job.

 

source:Penna's Hierarchy of engagement (2007)

 

·                  Robinson's (2004) model-Engagement

Robinson (2006)recommended that there is considerable evidence that many employees are greatly underutilized in the workplace through the lack of involvement in work-based decision.

 

Source: Robinson (2004)Model

 Why Organizations need Engagement

Employee engagement is the positive mental and emotional attitude an employee has toward his or her work. An engaged workforce can produce exceptional results for the business and contribute to the accomplishment of corporate goals and objectives.

Employee engagement is being adopted by the majority of organizations for a variety of reasons. Employee engagement involves laying the foundation for organizational leaders and managers to successfully implement their entire business plan. To develop devoted and committed employees within the organizations, all executives must concentrate on employee engagement programs.

This also mentioned by Federman(2009) " A roadmap for creating profit optimizing performance and increasing loyalty.

Advantages  of Employee Engagement

·                   Increase the workers' safety. Employees who are dedicated, devoted, and engaged are more conscious of their environment. Research indicates that highly engaged workplaces experience fewer accidents.

·                   Improve the employees' overall health. Instead of a workplace that is not engaged, consider the health of the personnel. They always make an effort to care for their staff and monitor their wellness.

·                   A happier workplace may be maintained via employee involvement. Stress, peer pressure, and termination issues are non-existent in highly engaged organizations. Due to this, everyone may work cheerfully.

·                  • There will be an increase in worker satisfaction. Highly engaged employees are having a great time at work. Their level of satisfaction exceeds that of a workplace with little engagement.

·                  Happy workers enjoy better home lives. The individual who has a positive job experience might impart that information to their family by being engaged.

•              Contributed to keeping the organization's absenteeism and labor turnover low.

•           A more engaging workplace will increase employee retention for the company.

•           Boost the organization's productivity and value for the market share.

Conclusion

Employee engagement refers to how an individual perceives and operates inside a business. As a result of the many advantages it offers both the company and the employees, it is very popular today. Employees are considered as kings in highly engaged workplaces over all other criteria. If you take care of your employees, they will take care of your customers, claims Richard Branson. Considering that employees come first. Employee engagement can aid an organization in achieving its goals, objectives, and strategic plan. Employee involvement also aids in increasing productivity inside the company and gaining a competitive edge.

 

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