ORGANIZATIONAL SUCCESS THROUGH EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT

What is employee engagement?

Employee engagement can be defined as the commitment, enthusiasm of employees and the level of involvement in their work and workplace due to their own willingness.

Deci and Ryan (1985) expanded early work by differentiating between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Competence, autonomy, and psychological relatedness which are psychological needs, motivate the individual to initiate behavior essential for psychological health and well-being of an individual and if satisfied may lead to optimal function and growth.

Importance of Employee Engagement.

Employees are people who take day-to-day decisions at different levels of work. The way the employees are treated and how the employees treat other employees may affect them positively or put the organization at risk. Employee engagement is a powerful predictor of an organization’s success.

Image 1: Benefits of Employee Engagement (Emeritus.org, 2022)


How to engage employees?

Employee engagement, a byproduct of leadership, is improved when the leader has a direct relationship with employees (Lowe, 2012), most of us think that employee engagement is a responsibility and a task which is to carried out by the HR manager, but in the other hand it the responsibility of the every immediate superior of the organization. Few ways to improve the employee engagement,
  • Know your employees,
  • Listen and consider their feedback,
  • Make them understand the organizational goals,
  • Appreciate their work and the team,
  • Encourage teamwork within the organization,
  • Motivate and coach the employees,
  • Encourage and allow them to grow.
Organizations must provide a psychologically safe workplace to improve employee engagement (Kompaso & Sridevi, 2010)

Conclusion

Employee engagement is the result of their motivation and their willingness in the work. They tend to believe that the work they do has a value, and it contributes to the achievement of organizational goals. The engaged employee has high productivity which results in an increase in profits and shareholder values. 

It is always crystal clear, with the minimum efforts an organization can raise the level of employee engagement which will benefit the organization and the society.

References

Deci, E. L., & Ryan, R. M. (1985). Intrinsic Motivation and Self-Determination in Human Behavior. Berlin: Springer Science & Business Media. (Available at) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2271-7 (Accessed on May 2023)

Emeritus.org, 2022. Why Employee Engagement Is Important in Today’s Workplace: 16 Benefits (Available at) https://emeritus.org/blog/why-employee-engagement-is-important-benefits/ (Accessed on May 2023)

Eldor, L., & Harpaz, I. (2015). A process model of employee engagement: The learning climate and its relationship with extra-role performance behaviors. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 37, 213–235. doi:10.1002/job.2037 (Accessed on May 2023)

Kompaso, S. M., & Sridevi, M. S. (2010). Employee engagement: The key to improving performance.
International Journal of Business and Management, 5, 89–98. doi:10.5539/ijbm.v5n12p89 (Accessed on May 2023)



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