EMPLOYMENT ENGAGEMENT STRATERGIES
Figure 1 (Markos and Sridevi, 2010)
WHAT
IS EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT
Robinson
et al,. (2004) define employee engagement as “a positive attitude held by the
employee towards the organization and its value. An engaged employee is aware
of business context and works with colleagues to improve performance within the
job for the benefit of the organization. The organization must work to develop
and nurture engagement, which requires a two-way relationship between employer
and employee.”
ELEMENTS
OF EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY
These
are the major elements employees are expected to have on employee engagement.
1. Focus
on me.
2. Do
the right thing for the first time
3. Do
their best.
4. Recognition
for their work and feed back
5. I
want their ideas to count.
6. Expecting
to encourage their developments
7. Care
about me as a person
8. I
want to be provided with any opportunities to grow.
9. The
employee is a part of the mission.
10. It's
better to know a fellow employee is doing quality work.
11. People
like to have friends in the premise.
12. Employees
need employers to let them know periodically how they are progressing their
work.
3Cs
OF EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT
1. Career:
- Promotions, rotations, significant assignments in career will increase
employee engagement.
2. Competence:
apply the learnings on real-life tasks to grow their competence.
3. Caring:
caring the employees through sensitivity, empathy, and spontaneity will
increase employee engagement.
EMPLOYEE
ENGAGEMENT STRATEGIES
- Promoting transparency among employees
- Getting feedback from the team
- Providing opportunities for growth
- Help to employees
- Rewards and recognitions
- Accountable by employee
BENEFITS
OF EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY
- Increasing customer satisfaction
- Efficiency and productivity
will increase
- Reducing absenteeism
- Better out put
- Improve company culture
EMPLOYEE
ENGAGEMENT MEASURED BY AON HEWITT EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT MODEL
Figure 2 (Hewitt, 2012).
This model explains the relationship between the engagement drivers and business outcomes by the middle man of: engagement outcomes.
So the employee engagement directly impact on the
customer satisfaction, profit of the business and operational process of the
firm.
CONCLUSION
So the employee engagement strategies mainly effect the
profit, business operations, customer satisfaction and wellness of the
employees.
REFERENCES
Hewitt, A., 2012. 2012 Trends in global employee Engagement. Aon
Corporation, available at: https://www. sigmoidcurve.
com/assets/Uploads/2015-trends-inglobal-employee-engagement-sigmoid-connect.
pdf (accessed February 7, 2020).
Bhuvanaiah, T. and Raya, R.P., 2014. Employee engagement: Key to
organizational success. SCMS journal of Indian Management, 11(4),
p.61.
Markos, S. and Sridevi, M.S., 2010. Employee engagement: The key to
improving performance. International journal of business and management, 5(12),
p.89.
Robinson, D., Perryman, S. and Hayday, S., 2004. The drivers of employee engagement. Institute for Employment Studies.
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