Employee Engagement
Abstract
This paper discusses the importance of work engagement within an organization. It defines different types of engagement and examines key ways to produce highly engaged workers. It focuses on different types of management styles and how these styles play a role in creating or destroying a high involvement work practice. It also looks at what is accomplished when engaged employees perform well for an organization.
Introduction
An organizations biggest asset is its employee, particularly employees that are highly engaged. An engaged employee is excited about their work, and they feel connected to the work they do. They support the organization, and believe in the goals the organization sets forth. Engaged employees are fully involved in all aspects of their work and are enthusiastic about the tasks they complete. Employees that are engaged tend to be happier and healthier in their everyday life.
Employee engagement has been widely discussed in recent years. Some researchers suggest that engagement is just a fad yet others believe engagement levels play a vital role in meaningful business outcomes. Employee engagement can be important to the competiveness of a business; it can create customer loyalty, and result in successful financial performance.
Highly engaged workers are by far more productive, they constantly perform at higher levels they can be the most effective weapon for an organization to be successful. Some believe this productivity occurs because these employees are also highly engaged outside the workplace as well as on the job (Saks, 2006). Saks discusses two different types of employee engagement one is job engagement, which is defined as the degree to which an individual is attentive and absorbed in the performance of their job role. Organization is the other. Organizational commitment focuses on the attitude and attachment towards an employee’s organization
The perfect employee for any organization would be someone who is a leader, engages customers, feels the least entitled and takes responsibility for their own actions. These are the traits that represent a highly engaged employee. To better understand how to create an engaged employee more of what engagement is must be defined.
Understanding employee engagement
Work engagement is defined as a positive, fulfilling, work-related state of mind that is characterized by vigor, dedication, and absorption. A high involvement work practice helps to create an engaged work environment (Bakker and Demerouti, 2008).
A highly engaged employee is not the same as a workaholic they have major differences. For instances good health is often seen in engaged employees while poor health is seen in workaholics. This may have something to do with the fact