THE IMPORTANCE OF EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT
Employee
engagement is the scope which employees motivated, committed and passionate
about their jobs and put discretionary effort in to their work. It is an
individual purpose and focused energy, evident to others, in the display of
personal initiative adaptability, effort and persistence directed towards
organizational goals. (Macey at al,2009).
Joo and Mclean
(2006) stated that engaged employees are strong organizational assets for
sustained competitive advantage and a strategic asset. While Richman (2006)
mention that recent studies make it clear that high employee engagement
translates in to increased discretionary effort, higher productivity and lower
turnover at the employee level as well as increased customer satisfaction and
loyalty profitability and shareholder value for the organization.
COMPONENTS OF
EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT
1.Engagement
with the organization – this measures how the employees engaged with the
organization, how they feel about the senior management, this factor has done
with confidence in organizational management with trust, respect and values,
and how people like to be treated.
2.Engagement
with my manager – This is basically having a strong relationship with the immediate manager. This include feeling valued, being treated fairly.
The ways to
engaged the employees is giving them more responsibilities and challengers,
this will create a path to boost your organization productivity since its more
efficient to involve everyone.
WHY THE EMPLOYEE
ENGAGEMENT SO IMPORTANT
1.Engaged
employees will boost the productivity – Research shows that engaged employees
are more productive than those who are not
2.Employee engagement escalates
the customer satisfaction – A happy sales force will increase customer
satisfaction and treat them to have a better experience, Employees feels value
in treating customers at their best will also be valued by the organization.
3.The best people will retain –
The engaged employees who are invested their roles and involved with
responsibilities have less possibility to leave their jobs. If the best people
aren’t engaged there is always a risk of losing them. So keeping them engaged
is essential to get the best outcomes.
4.Employee engagement enhances
the company culture – Creating an employee engagement culture requires to check
to ensure that the company mission is align with the ways which employees are
currently work and they want to work. It is easier to work with engaged work
force since they show the enthusiasm in work because they are happy and cheery
as a result of exemplifying an engagement culture.
5.Engagement is a symptom of
success – This is not simply meant the organizational success. This will create
personal or team success. Since they feel the work matters most they will feel
valued and when their success is recognized people are tending to feel that
they have create a good impact at work.
REFERENCES
Employee engagement survey - https://www.custominsight.com/employee-engagement-survey/what-is-employee-engagement.asp
Jostle blog of 5 reasons why employee engagement important
available at https://blog.jostle.me/blog/5-reasons-why-employee-engagement-is-important
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ReplyDeleteEmployee engagement strategies have been proven to reduce staff turnover, improve productivity and efficiency, retain customers at a higher rate, and make more profits. Most importantly, engaged employees are happier, both at work and in their lives. Thanks for sharing.
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