Employee Engagement: A Key to improve Performance

 

Angurbala Mishra, Subhasmita Biswal

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

*Corresponding Author E-mail: angurbala.mishra@gmail.com, subhasmitabiswal@soa.ac.in

 

ABSTRACT:

A broad concept which clutches substantially every aspect of human resource management is called Employee Engagement. If all aspects of human resources are not tackled properly, then workers are unable to commit themselves to their job. Employee Engagement is connected with previous conceptions including job enrichment, employee responsibility, and organizational citizenship behavior. However, employee engagement is discovered from these concepts, but it is broader in scope. Employee Engagement is a robust indicator/anticipator of complimentary organizational performance which undoubtedly indicating a bipartite relationship between employer and employee. Committed workers are psychologically devoted towards the organization and strongly engaged in their job with great commitment. This study aims to review how employee engagement enhances performances.

 

KEYWORDS: Employee engagement, Employee commitment, Organizational performance, bipartite relationship, psychological commitment.

 

 


INTRODUCTION:

Executives give their consent that this modern era requires more efficacy and proficiency compared with the distant pasts. Business firms are attempting to enhance their performance. To put the organizations toward the front of opponents, managers have been struggling with many criticisms. In modern times due to technological facilities, business firms are taking advantage of modern technologies of operation. These modern technologies create more contradictions for executives since they require a diverse range of workforces to have sufficient technological and occupational knowledge. They speculate on effective freedom, job accomplishment, and stratum. Since managers are moving forward employees' side of organizations.

 

 

Employer's are always trying to retain their employees engaged in the job. Nowadays, managers figure out that they can build more competent and prolific manpower through employee engagement (EE). Certain progressive measures adopted by the organization are not being able to be successful unless deliberate contribution/ participation and involvement of the workforce. As a notion, EE is enormous. The current paper imposes limits on itself to review only the underlying ideas on EE based on current pieces of literature. The current paper has been segregated into four substantial parts. The first part explores the evolvement of the concept, its delineation. The second part debates the components moving toward engagement. The third part discusses the effect of EE on the performance outcomes of the organization like cost-effectiveness, customer gratification, organizational development, productive capacity. In the final part, it points out some manifestos should be taken by the organization to keep employees engaged in their job. The devoted workforce demonstrates a sentimental attachment during carrying out their tasks and obligations and will demonstrate a psychological involvement during carrying out these tasks (Saks, 20061; Shuck and Wollard, 20092). 

 

The Evolvement of Employee Engagement:

A large number of referrals identify EE to study syndicates and consulting services. It is less considered as being an institutional conception. Generally, this conception is unfamiliar for human resource management and emerged in published writings for approximately twenty years (Rafferty et al., 20053; Melcrum Publishing, 20054; Ellis and Sorensen, 20075).  The term EE was first emerged and proposed by William A. Kahn in the year 1990 in a scholarly journal. In the year 1999, the book 'First Break all the Rules' written by Buckingham and Coffman supported the word 'employee engagement' rise in popularity in the business community. EE term originates from Commitment and Organizational Citizen Behavior (OCB) which have won institutional identification and have been the context of the observational study (Robinson et al., 20046; Rafferty et al., 20053).  EE has some identical aspects and goes with Commitment and Organizational Citizen Behavior. Not either commitment or OCB mediates two attributes of engagement effectively but its two-directional quality and the level to which committed workforces would like an aspect of business awareness (Robinson et al., 20046). Employee engagement indicates that it constitutes a reciprocal shared practice among the workforce and the organization (Rafferty et al., 20053).

 

DELINEATION OF EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT:

If communication and relations among employees and employers are good, then it will create a positive perception and high employee engagement. To attain a comparative strength, engaged employees are considered as an asset for the organization (Halid et al., 20217). Compensation was the key contributor en route for/towards engagement. The penalty could be positively acclimated to impact employee engagement. Managers should adopt transformational and authentic leadership styles because these styles are the most engagement-friendly/active engagement leadership styles (Nasimiyu Ruth Mulievi and Eglay Tsuma, 20218). As a mediation variable, employee engagement has an active role that relates to the impact of reward and allowances on employee performance. Employee commitment will have an impact on improving employee performance (Siswanto et al., 20219). Employee engagement influencing the performance of the organization which was found to promote employee motivation (Emmanuel Akanpaadgi and Felicia Binpimbu, 202110).

 

Employees will circulate negative sentiments among other colleagues if they are operating in a negative vibe. The sentiments accommodate a negative vibe in the workplace (molestation, domineering, and avoidance) that could be harmful and result in needless tension, exhaustion, depression, and agitation among employees. Employee happiness will influence the behaviors of employee that enhance job performance and employee engagement.  Employee engagement brings coherence to the organization. Employees' sense of belongingness is optimized when they get organizational support. Generally, the engaged employees are coolheaded and sentimentally attached to the vision and mission of the organization (Samma Faiz et al., 202111). Transformational leaders evolve a deep bonding between leader and followers, which diminishes a follower's hesitation to encompass organizational change and improves employee engagement and also improves follower's faith in leadership which accelerates employee engagement (M. Nazmul Islam, Fumitak Furuoka, and Aida Idris, 202112). Engaged employees will help an organization attract more capable potential employees. Current-day organizations try to seek individual factors that may enhance organizational engagement (Nor Fauziana et al., 202013). Baby Boomers, Generation X and Generation Y had a high level of employee engagement. So, if the engagement level is higher in the organization, then the performance level is better and vice-versa (Roel D. Juevesa and John Michael P. Casino, 202014). EE had a high impact on job performance. There is a change in the contextual performance of employees through organizational culture. A trust-worthy and innovative culture should encourage employees to be more committed towards their work (Bhawana Bhardwaj & Namrita Kalia, 202015).

 

Genuine recruitment and selection process with ample training and development of employees will enhance organizational performance and success. Ultimately the success of the organization enhances employee satisfaction and employee engagement (Uju V. Alola and Rawan Alafeshat, 202016). e-HRM helps to maintain better relationships with co-workers, which increases engagement in turn it ultimately helps to improve employees' productivity. In the e-HRM environment, the impact of EE on employee efficiency is enhanced with the help of facilitating conditions and a supportive environment (B. Akila et al., 202017). Without the dedication and loyalty of its employees, a company cannot accomplish its goals. Effective managers understand how dedication affects performance and believe that maintaining a constant search for the establishing objective is essential to carrying out their duties (Ahmad Shoeb, 201918).

 

Employee engagement is influenced by a number of things. Organizations can boost employee engagement by providing career prospects and promotions, fostering a creative and innovative workplace, implementing stress-reduction programs, and providing above-average pay packages (Malti & Priyanka, 201919). EE instances are apparently less noticeable to younger workers, due to lack of work experience. Management and HR professionals should understand the eminence of EE for the operative performance of the organization and exploring ways to enhance employee commitment (Rupa Shrestha, 201920). For the organizational point of view, happy people are productive, devoted and creative, as opposed to unhappy people who may be slightly less productive, devoted, or creative or who may be even be the whole reverse of these (Jain & Sharma, 201921). Organizations are reaping the benefits of implementing quality-of-life programs in the form of higher productivity and a productive, contended, and dedicated staff that works hard to achieve organizational objectives (Sharma M., 201922). Managers should evolve well-constructed policies to attain a high work engagement level among employees. Also provide proper communications, career development, and remunerations to employees to increase employee engagement (Adel Ali Yassin, 201823). Significant link exists between the Sense of involvement and growth dimension of psychological well-being and the behavioral dimension of organizational cynicism. Mothers' sense of engagement and progress also rises when their organization is met with more cynicism in their thoughts and actions (Pradhan, and Smitha, 201824).

 

Organizations should develop a favorable environment for employee engagement by equipping them with adequate organizational support, to explore their positive mindset, which is characterized by vigor, devotion, and attention.  (Roger, Smith, and Lillah, 201825). Better supervisor-subordinate relationships serve as important markers of workers' good service performance in addition to higher employee engagement. For a higher standard to be formed between managers and employees, employees need to be provided possibilities like involvement in important decision-making, information exchange, and autonomy (Ahmed, 201726). Employees that are content with their jobs tend to be more driven, engaged, loyal, and committed to their employers. Doctors are more likely to be committed if they have a good wage, positive working relationships , autonomy at work, a work-life balance, and feel appreciated by their employers (Prasad et al., 201627). The success of the banking business depends heavily on its dedicated employees, hence the quality of work life for its employees is crucial. The long-standing, evergreen banking sector is currently fading from the market as a result of salaries and perks that do not match the commitment made by employees to their banks through long hours, dealing with pressure at work, and eventually achieving projected goals (Hangarki Sobha B. , 201428). By fostering a culture of work dedication in organizations and society, welfare policies guarantee that employees are more productive and satisfied with their jobs. Because of the welfare measures, the workers work enthusiastically and with vigor, which leads to an increase in output and, ultimately, a higher profit (Neral Apoorva, 201329). The scientific management originated by Frederick Taylor suggested that it is crucial to analytically investigate the driving forces which persuade the human factor. Taylor's systematic investigation was constituted to enhance productive capacity by way of employee engagement: synergy, uniformity, and collective intellectual work (Grachev and Rakitsky, 201330). Managers should take a keen interest in enforcing suitable HR practices and significant parameters for yielding positive EE (Geetha Jose & Sebastian Rupert Mampilly, 201231; Singh & Shukla, 201232). EE is a determinable level of a wage-earners favorable or unfavorable deep-seated loyalty towards his work, co-workers, and organization which extremely affects his mobility to assimilate and be engaged at work (Vaijayanthi et al., 201133). EE is an amazingly delicate phenomenon, which is difficult to prosper and preserve for the reason that it is mainly created in the exposition of the employment conditions (Shuck and Reio, 201134). A company should comprehend the relevance of staff members, above all remaining variables as the predominant subscriber for its comparative strength (Shashi, 201135). Appropriate consideration to engagement policies will enhance organizational efficiency based on enhanced performance, net income, eminence, customer satisfaction, employee detainment, and extended flexibility (Sundaray, 201136). EE is the deceptive power that inspires employed personnel to superior outcomes. This desired power is a combination of dedication, faithfulness, prolificness, and proprietorship. It comprehends the sentiments and perspectives workforces en route towards their work and organization (Wellins and Concelman, 201137). Engagement relates to intensity and responsibility - the mobility to empower own self and amplify one's spontaneous endeavor to assist the employer to be successful, which is ahead of effortless happiness with the job contract or fundamental adherence towards executive (Macey and Schieder, 200838). It is a mental condition where employees sense a hidden agenda in the organization's achievement and both employer and employees are delighted and encouraged to carry out the specified work demands (Mercer, 200739).

 

Engagement is a reciprocal association between employees and employers. In this case, employees are emphatically, psychologically, and rationally dedicated towards the organizational development, mostly by allocating versatile power in a permanent manner (Tower-Perrin, 200340; Hewitt Associates, 200441; Robinson et al., 20046). Employee engagement has been identified in various manners. Some researchers debated that the delineations sometimes sound identical to 'organizational commitment' and 'organizational citizenship behavior'. Engagement is more advanced than commitment (Robinson et al., 20046). As a result, some researchers might call "old wine in a new bottle". Male police showed greater dedication to their work, while mentored female police showed greater job satisfaction when compared to their male counterparts (Aremu & Adeyoju, 200342). Engagement is a satisfied, productive, occupational mental condition that is delineated by an individual attachment accompanied by willingness, passion, determination, and fascination (Schaufeli et al., 200243; Harter et al., 200244). Engagement is the cognitive existence along with awareness or analytical abilities of the workforce consuming time in dreaming about a role and their enthusiasm to consider the role (Rothbard, 200145). Engagement is the contemporary situation and appearance of a person's perception in work behaviors that foster association with the workplace and others, physical existence and attentiveness, and full role performance (Kahn, 199046).

 

COMPONENTS MOVING TOWARD ENGAGEMENT:

Numerous researchers have validated to determine components steering towards employee engagement and evolved models to frame some influences for managers. The demarcation at the workplace means the valuable way of bringing together both employer and employee along with employees experience a feeling of togetherness and get a chance to contribute to the achievement of organizational goals (Penna, 200747). Workforces keen to have a job in the organizations where they identify sum and substance on the job. Researchers propounded with the "Hierarchy of Engagement" model which seems to be similar to Maslow's "Need Hierarchy" model (Penna, 200747). The basic requirements of rewards and accommodations are the main concern. Once employees are pleased with these requirements, then they look to advancement perspective, the potentiality for set up the ladder and after that managerial approach will be commenced into the model. At last, since each specific aforesaid ancillary expectation has been fulfilled employees look to an arrangement of quality significance, that is demonstrated by a correct sensibility of the alliance, a general objective, and reciprocal affectivity at work. To constitute a strongly committed human resource, an executive should follow five points (Development Dimensions International, 200548). They are:

·       Regulate considerations with guidelines

·       Privilege

·       Foster and provoke joint effort and synergism

·       Support people to evolve and enroot

·       Provide support and acknowledgment where applicable.

 

Managers are the key to committed manpower. Employees who have close companionship on the job are very committed (Clifton, 200849). EE is inevitably connected with employer principles (Vance, 200650). He displays a task execution framework to shed light on en route employer principles that influence task execution and engagement. In his opinion, EE is the effect of distinctive features like cognizance, intelligence, competencies, propensity, state of mind and distinctiveness, the organizational setting which comprises hegemony, physical and community activities, and Human Resource practices that explicitly impact the human being, mechanism and backdrop elements of execution at work. The most determining factors which are revealed to accelerate EE are non-economic due to its composition. In this manner, any establishment that has enthusiastic hegemony can obtain the yearned degree of commitment in a cost-effective manner. That does not indicate that managers should overlook the monetary attribute of their employees. Performance ought to be connected with remuneration. Reward and allowances are equivalently crucial for each employee (Buckingham and Coffman, 200551). A firm's remuneration should at least be homogeneous to the market price. Despite that, welcoming reward and allowances encasement up to market levels won't procure a firm far away.

 

LINKAGE BETWEEN EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE:

Employee engagement is joined substantially with crucial trade performance. By reviewing the literature, we found a positive association between EE and organizational achievement outcomes like workforce preservation, productive capacity, cost-effectiveness, client relationships, and safeguarding. According to the researchers more the workforces are dedicated, the more apparently their supervisor is to surpass the organization normal in its supplemental income. EE is considered maximum in twofold digit development firms. EE is favorably associated with client gratification (Coffman, 200052; Ellis and Sorensen, 20075; Towers Perrin Talent Report, 200340; Hewitt Associates, 200441; Heintzman and Marson, 200553; Coffman and Gonzalez-Molina, 200254). A dedicated workforce continuously reinforces three generic actions that intensify organizational performance (Baumruk and Gorman, 200655):

·       Speak- the employee moves for the alliance to fellow members and indicates prospective employees and clients.

·       Stand- the employee has an outstanding inclination to be amongst the organization irrespective of scopes to work elsewhere.

·       Seek- the employee enforces extended duration, endeavor, and aggressiveness to help the business to achieve success.

 

Employees who are not committed towards their work tend to be twisting (despoiling their endeavor and competency on activities which is not important), composing (transparently do not demonstrate complete dedication, not downhearted so much to leave), and excruciating (they are not remaining with the things to transform in their organization), have considerably higher hesitance regarding the performance measures of their organization including client gratification (Blessing White, 200656). Uncommitted workforces are more likely to cost their organization (Accord Management Systems, 200457).

 

MANIFESTOS OF EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT:

Managers ought to gaze upon the subsequent ten points to have committed employees for the organization. These points are called "tablets" because it is presumed that they will treat successfully the employee detachment illness. Respond to these ten tablets:

·       Commence it on the very first day:

      Many organizations do have comprehensible fresh talent search manifestos. Despite that, they require employee detainment manifestos. Operative enrollment and orientation curriculums are the early steps to be applied on day one for the apprentice. Executives must be cautious in the extraction of the prospective competency of the apprentice by way of operative enrollment. Newcomers might be given customary induction which is connected with the vision, mission, strategies, values, and job-specific configuration like work responsibilities and obligations, aims, and ongoing preferences of the department to which those employees have a place keeping in mind the end goal to empower realistic job expectations and reduce role conflict which may go out sometime later. Once the recruitment process is over, then the manager has to ensure the principle "right people at the right place at the right time" and also tries the level best to retain the best talent for the organizational development.

·       Make a start from the executive level:

      Employee engagement involves headship liability through endowing well-defined obligations, values, and vision. Until the executive level reckons on it, identifying it and delegate/hand over it to the middle and lower level and amplify their headship, EE is not at all apart from recognized a corporate/business mania. EE fails to require insincerity instead of enthusiastic nobility and pragmatic service from the executive level. It obliges "Leading by Being example".

·       Enforce employee engagement by way of interactive transmission:

      Executives should enhance interactive transmission. Wage-earners are not sets of pots on which you overspill your viewpoints unless allowing them a lucky break to have a remark on subject matters to their livelihood and existence. Understandable and persistent transmission of what is anticipated of them makes them ready for committed human resources. Engage your workforce and eternally express respect to their effort. Distribute authority among employees by way of collaborative decision making thus they might feel a conception of social bond thereby enhancing their engagement in understanding it.

·       Provide adequate options for growth and improvement:

      Motivate/inspire autonomous viewpoints by way of providing them more job indulgence therefore employees will have an opportunity to make their freedom of selecting the best possible way of doing their work as long as they are yielding the anticipated outcome. Regulate via outcomes instead of endeavoring to administer all the procedures through which that outcome is acquired.

 

Assure that wage earners have everything available to do their work:

·       Executives are anticipated to ensure that workforces have all the required assets like substantial or tangible, monetary, and information assets to achieve their work effectively.

·       Provide adequate training to the employees:

      Support employees to streamline themselves in enhancing their knowledge and competencies by way of providing adequate pieces of training. Normally it is comprehended that when employees become acquainted with their job, their self-confidence enhances. Therefore they can do their work without much supervision which ultimately constructs their self-confidence and dedication.

·       Have a substantial performance management system:

      Organizations should reinforce a substantial feedback system that considers managers and employees are liable for the level of dedication they have exhibited. Carrying out the routine overview of employee engagement level assists distinguished determinants that make employees committed to their job. Once finishing the overview, it is recommended to regulate all the determinants that motivating engagement in the organization, furthermore, reduce the list of determinants to emphasize on few areas. Organizations must start with an intensification of the determinants that will have the most influence on the employees and bring determination around progressing these areas. Because it may be complicated to address all determinants at the same time. Managers are supposed to be in the back of such survey outcomes and set up result-oriented policies which are distinct, assessable, responsible, and limited in duration.

·       Compensations play a major role:

      Executives should exercise both monetary and non-monetary benefits for employees who demonstrate more commitment to their work. Numerous management philosophies have delineated that whenever employees receive more compensation, appreciation, and compliment, they are inclined to utilize extra force towards their job. There should have been a strong association between the compensation given to employees and their performance.

·       Set up a unique corporate culture:

      Organizations should foster a cohesive work culture whereupon the intentions and ethics of executives are lined up over the entire area of work. Establishments that set up a way of life of reciprocal affection by preserving success stories alert won't just hold their prevailing workforces committed but also nominate the new approaching employees with this prevailing in line with employment conditions.

·       Concentrate on top-performing employees:

      High-yielding organizations are concentrating on captivating their fast-paced workforces. Because top performers are the ones who, down the line, will help you come up with better ideas. They will provide you with the most valuable feedback. They will make quality hiring recommendations and take the responsibility off your shoulders.

 

Adequate research is scarce regarding the provocations which entrap with executives' exertion to enhance their employee engagement scores. Many research professionals concentrate on identifying the components persuading engagement; despite that, unable to determine clearly expressed manifestos to come in for workforces engrossed in carrying out their duties. The proposed manifestos will have monetary/economic consequences on establishments. Despite that, research professionals do not indicate the cost endeavors intended for enhancing employee engagement.

 

CONCLUSION:

The literature demonstrates that EE is strongly associated with the performance results of the organization. Organizations with committed employees have higher employee retention due to a decrease in net sales and decreased inclination to quit the organization, productive capacity, cost-effectiveness, advancement, and satisfaction of customers. Conversely, organizations with uncommitted employees struggle with the misuse of endeavor and deplete skill, gain limited dedication from the employees, encounter expanded unexcused absence, less customer satisfaction, less production capacity, and decrease in the rate of returns and disposable incomes.

 

Many research professionals pinpoint solely the relevance and favorable outcomes of EE on the performances of employment, ignoring to bestow the profitability assessment for engagement determinations. Therefore there is a necessity to investigate the cost factor of engagement determinations. Determinations of divergent investigations recommend their manifestos to continue being workforces involved. In this paper ten manifestos were recommended to keep employees engaged, they are called "ten tablets".

 

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Received on 11.04.2023         Modified on 03.10.2023

Accepted on 05.02.2024      ©AandV Publications All right reserved

Res.  J. Humanities and Social Sciences. 2024;15(1)12-18.

DOI: 10.52711/2321-5828.2024.00003