EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT IN AN ORGANIZATION
WHAT IS EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT?
Definition-
Employee engagement is the extent to which employees feel passionate about their jobs, are committed to the organization, and put discretionary effort into their work.
Employee engagement is not the same as employee satisfaction and it’s an important area that an organization should concentrate to be productive and to get effective, loyal and committed work force.
- Employee Engagement is employees' ability and willingness to contribute to organizational success, especially their willingness to give discretionary effort, going beyond what is typically required in their position to make the organization successful.
- Employee engagement drives performance and look at the whole of the company and understand their purpose, where, and how they fit in. This leads to better decision-making.
- Organizations with an engaged workforce outperform their competition. They have a higher earnings per share (EPS) and recover more quickly after recessions and financial setbacks. Engagement is a key differentiator when it comes to growth and innovation.
- Moreover, expectations of employees have changed. Mobile professional careers are much more common than “job for lifers”. Retention of top talent is more difficult than before. A company that has an effective employee engagement strategy and a highly engaged workforce is more likely to retain top performers as well as attract new talent. Successful organizations are value-driven with employee-centric cultures.
FURTHER.... WHY IS EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT IMPORTANT ?
Employee Engagement illustrates the gap between the organization and its human resource and helps the management to benefit in various ways such as increase in productivity, building trust and loyalty of its employees to work effectively with passion to meet the goals of the organization through their workforce.
- Satisfaction and commitment towards the job as well as to the organization may leads to establish a strongly employee engagement in the organization.
- Establishing due employee engagement in the organization it may resulted to enhance the employees' efficiency and capabilities.
- Indeed it will be a worst thing to the organization because of in a business unit customer relationship is the utmost factor and same is to be build-up through the employees in the organization.
- By fulfilling employees' expectations in a satisfactory level where necessary, management would be able to extract the employees’ contribution toward the company goals.
- Furthermore Poor employee engagement is a factor behind the high employee turnover in nowadays. Inability to implement a proper strategic plan in order to establish a strong employee engagement may resulted to increase employee turnover.
EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT CHALLENGES YOU MIGHT BE FACING AT YOUR WORKPLACE.
Identifying the common Employee Engagement challenges we will be able to provide solutions to overcome the situation and here listed a few common challenges and the way to overcome them.
- Lack of Clarity
Not having a clear understanding of their tasks, responsibilities
and processes at work individual goals, and organization goals will all be
derailed without clarity.
Build awareness on vision, mission and strategic priorities among
the employees, in ensuring that they are clear about why they are doing what
they do.
- Work life balance
A healthy work-life balance is imperative to let employees work
with their utmost productivity.
Organization will be able to get the maximum from the
engaged employees by introducing flexible work hours, offsite works & shift
working concept and work from home concept.
- Growth & Recognition
Not having a growth & recognition in the organization, employees
will leave for a better one. As human we all are willing to be appreciated and
organization should establish a proper reward scheme, salary increment plan and
promotion plan.
- Employee engagement strategy
Without having a solid strategy in place there is no
direction to the employees in which to achieve there.
Hence organization should establish a proper plan in order to attract the employees toward the betterment of the organization with a high employee engagement.
References:
Motivation and Employee Engagement of Executives. Gamage P.
(2020)
Available at :
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346942505_Employee_Motivation_and_Employee_Engagement_of_Executives_Evidence_from_a_Private_Commercial_Bank_in_Sri_Lanka01.Employee
Engagement
In the organization employee engagement, affects every important aspect of the organization, including profitability, revenue, customer experience, employee turnover, and more. because of that employee management is critical for any organization.
ReplyDeleteYes indeed. Organizations will not be able to achieve their targets as they expect with having disengaged employees in the workforce. Hence Organizations should have a proper long term plan to make employee engagement to a optimize level for the betterment of the company. In such scenario by enhancing employee engagement in the organization there are some advantages to the both parties such as job satisfaction, attractive remuneration package, and stress less working environment for the employees and less employee turnover, high employee productivity & efficiency then it effect to the business turnover and profit of the organization.
DeleteWhat are the employee engagement activities that your organization doing for your employee?
ReplyDeleteActually in banking sector employee engagement is critical as well as for each organization. Hence they should take every effort to keep the employees engaged. In that case I’ll share some points with regards to the employee engagement activities in my banking organization.
Delete~ Learning & Development in the working environment
- Bank empowered the Employees by knowledge & skills
- Time to time provide learning sessions and awareness programs with regard to the products & services as well as about circulars issued by the government authorities.
- Then employees may clearly understand what they need do and to whom they can sell product & services easily and the rules and regulations they should adhere to.
~ Conducting awareness programs regarding the innovative banking system.
- When the bank introduced new advanced digitalized platform related to banking system relevant department conducts awareness programs how to use the same and its functions.
~ Compensation & Benefits
- Attractive remuneration package is entitled each and every employee.
- Employee’s salary increments will be done annually with a satisfactory level and bank provides medical and life insurance for the employees and their families.
- Each employee is entitled to bonus schemes
- As everyone knows staff loan facilities offer under lowest interest rates than the market rates.
~ Reward scheme
- Bank has implemented attendance reward scheme for the employees based on the attendance records and same is rewarded annually and through this way bank expects to enhance employee engagement.
- Also reward scheme has introduced for the Employees who has completed academic qualifications. Then they may motivated to achieve academic qualifications on time.
~ Promotion
- Promotion of employees based on the job knowledge and skills will be done annually. Employees who have fulfill the requirements can applied for same.
~ Organizing events
- They organized get together Carnivals toastmaster programs & religious programs in order to reduce the employees stress to a considerable level by way of such events.
~ Appraisal
- Evaluation of employees are done in annually and such employee entitled to have a reward annually according to the level that the employee is achieved. User friendly Separate digital platform is introduced for this purpose.
~ Annual Theme
- End of the year bank publish the Theme for the upcoming year among the staff and then employees can get an idea about what are the areas that we need to focus mainly and what we should do for the goal.
~ Grievances Handling System
- Bank has a separate digital platform for the purpose of handing grievances. Employees can refer their problems and to communicate HR team through this platform and attending to the matters by HR team is in a satisfactory level.
These are the activities I wanted to highlight and by implementing & developing the above Bank would be able to enhance the employee engagement so far in the bank.
Article gives a good understanding about the emloyee engagement in an organization .employee engagement is the oxygen for the blood of the organization for smooth operation & further growth.
ReplyDeleteOne of the important factors in term of the subject is empower the employee with confident to carry out their work independently giving clear instructions what needs to be done &what is the organization requirement
You know lack of employee engagement is one of the main reasons employees leave. You know that improving employee engagement levels can reduce turnover levels and improve productivity. You see, many of today’s biggest companies rely on the intellectual capital of their employees. Their people are not easily replaceable. This means they’ve invested a lot of energy into figuring out exactly how to keep employees in their companies since replacement involves a cost.
ReplyDeleteThis is an important justification about employee engagement
ReplyDeleteFurther I have look in to how employee engagement is measured?
Employee engagement surveys are developed specifically to live the performance, strategic alignment, competency and satisfaction of contributors. Engagement surveys must be statistically validated and benchmarked against other organizations if they're getting to provide useful results. Without this stuff, it's difficult to understand what you're measuring and whether the results are good or bad.
Engagement are often accurately measured with short surveys that contain just a couple of questions, but such short surveys can only provide a sign of whether employees are engaged. they need a tough time explaining why employees are engaged or disengaged because they lack detail. Without sufficient information, a corporation cannot develop meaningful activities, training programs, strategies, and initiatives to boost levels of engagement.
In order to urge an entire picture of employee engagement, a survey must include about 50 to 80 questions that cover an entire range of relevant topics. There should even be open ended inquiries to further diagnose potential engagement problems during a company.
This is good idea about employee engagment. And also engagement goes beyond activities, games, and events. Employee engagement drives performance. Engaged employees looks the whole o company and understand their purpose, where, and how they fit in. This leads to better decision-making.
ReplyDeleteFine explanation on employee engagement and very informative. Actually it is the feeling of passionate , feeling of secured. Each and every organization should cultivate such a mindset within their workforce to have a better performance and higher contribution from their employees. This is an area both management and HR should properly be addressed.
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