EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT STRATEGIES

 EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT STRATEGIES


                                        







   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 STARTEGY

1.   .  Focus me

2.    .  Do the right work

3.   .  Do their best

4.    .  Recognition for their work and feed back

5.    . Want their ideas to count

6.     . Expecting encouraging their developments

7.     . Care about me as a person

8.    . Want to be provided any opportunities to Grow

9.     . Employee is the part of mission

10  . Better to know the fellow employee is doing quality work

11  . People like to have friend in the premise

12  . Employees need employers to let them periodically how they are progressing their work


3Cs OF EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT

  •  Career: - Promotions, Rotations, significant Assignments in career will increase employee engagement
  •  Competence: - apply the learnings on real life tasks to grow their competence.
  • Care: - caring the employees through sensitivity, Empathy, and Spontaneous will increase employee engagement.

EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT STRATEGIES

Ø  Promoting transparency among employees

Ø  Getting feedback from team

Ø  Providing opportunities for growth

Ø  Help to employees

Ø  Rewards and recognitions Accountable by employee

BENEFITS OF EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY

v Increasing of customer satisfaction

v Efficiency and productivity will increase

v Reducing absenteeism

v Better out put

v Increase 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.



Comments

  1. M D S PereraNovember 15, 2021 at 1:11 AM

    Dear Prabath it is a very explicit article on the importance of the employee engagement strategy. This also draws our attention to the leadership style which facilitate Promoting transparency among employees, Getting feedback from team, Providing opportunities for growth, Help to employees and also Rewards and recognitions Accountable by employee.

    Thanks for sharing Prabath !

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  2. Sujeewa RupasingheNovember 15, 2021 at 1:20 AM

    Good subject and engaging employees and holding them together through various ways and means will assist to stay focus on ultimate objective.

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  3. Sanjaya BandaranayakeNovember 15, 2021 at 4:20 AM

    Good article. I would like to add few more benefits of engagement strategy to your thought. Which are, increased employee safety, better employee health, better employee satisfaction and greater employee loyalty towards the organisation.

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    1. PrabathNovember 15, 2021 at 7:10 AM

      Thanks for your valuable comment and adding some more points

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  4. PrabathNovember 15, 2021 at 7:09 AM

    Thank you very much for your valuable comments

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  5. Sandya November 15, 2021 at 9:39 AM

    This comment has been removed by the author.

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  6. Vishwa GunarathnaNovember 16, 2021 at 4:08 PM

    All that is to say: focusing on building greater engagement among employees is well worth the investment, for every business.

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  7. HareenthNovember 16, 2021 at 10:53 PM

    A very good article. This is one of the important tiny stuff. Some people ignore this initially and fall in big problem in future, so for the betterment of the company as well as the betterment of us( personally) we got to work as a team. The achievements are greater together than the achievement we get individually.

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  8. KAMAL C. DIVITOTAWELANovember 18, 2021 at 2:38 AM

    Very good article.if you're wondering how to motivate employees,look no further then these eight employee engagement strategies that actually work...thanks for sharing this.

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  9. Asitha DDecember 6, 2021 at 2:31 AM

    Employee engagement strategies mainly affect the profit, business operations, customer satisfaction and always help to the productivity of the business. Employees are the golden value of every business and HR has a huge role to play to improve the employee engagement as a business strategy .Nice effort to explain all the key areas in detail. Good to learn !

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  10. Buddhika JayarathnaDecember 9, 2021 at 10:44 PM

    Employee engagement is treated as the miracle drug for workplace challenges. Employee engagement increases profitability& Employee engagement decreases turnover ( Wickham, 2020). good article thanks to share

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  11. SOS BoosterDecember 10, 2021 at 3:27 AM

    Employee engagement affects every function of your organization, from productivity to retention to customer satisfaction. You can increase how engaged your employees feel by planning strategic activities with our latest Employee engagement calendar for 2022.

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  12. PrabathDecember 10, 2021 at 7:23 AM

    yes of course ,we already started to apply those things its really worker able Thanks for your comment .

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  13. SampathpcDecember 10, 2021 at 9:42 AM

    With proper and balanced employee engagement is make the organization more grow and success continuously. for this should need to have well knowledgeable team head also. it's really good article to read.

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  14. Nuwansiri RathnayakeDecember 10, 2021 at 9:53 AM

    Employee engagement is most important to all organizations.
    because having effective strategies in-place helps create a better work culture, reduce staff turnover, increase productivity, build better work and customer relationships, and impact company profits as well.

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  15. Lakshmi BandaraDecember 11, 2021 at 5:12 PM

    Employee engagement must be encouraged by good employee rewards as well.Intrinsic and Extrinsic rewards, Financial and Non-financial rewards, Performance-based and Membership-based rewards also can support on above.(VANTAGE CIRCLE, 2021)

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  16. Sandya December 13, 2021 at 7:47 AM

    Employee engagement techniques will improve a company's favorable image. There are many more things that may be done to increase employee engagement. Train them, offer them feedback, encourage teamwork, and many other things that might lead to a solid mission and vision theme.

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  17. SampathpcDecember 13, 2021 at 9:18 AM

    Employee engagement is encourage the people's who are working over their. Also improving own strength & encouragement about their work because of they feel they are valuable person in the organization.

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  18. ajaykrJanuary 4, 2022 at 1:49 AM

    Wonderful blog! Small businesses and established companies are attracting towards virtual workplace culture for their remote teams, to varying degrees of success while ensuring a work-life balance. A virtual team building company, help organizations to engage their remote employees in various employee engagement activities.

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