BENIFITS OF EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT

BENEFITS OF EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT AND ITS PRACTICAL APPROCHES Fonterra brands Lanka is a great example of an organisation which succeeded through employee engagement. As Sri Lanka’s largest dairy company, Fonterra is highly considered the engagement of their employees as well as the health and safety of the people. The HR of the company is serious in selecting right candidates and invest large amount of money for the development of the employees. Example for the higher studies like PGDip / PCM or even MBA is fully paid by company. Not only that the company is keen investing on outbound trainings, frequent staff get-togethers, Sales conferences, classroom trainings for the development of individuals and to uplift the annual engagement survey scores conducted by Gallup. Also, employees are motivated to complete innovations on H&S to avoid any kind of risks & the best ideas are being recognised at the sales conference as “I-LEAD innovati...

BENEFITS OF EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT ENHANCING ENGAGEMENT Enhancing engagement is a non-stopping process which creates meaningful and emotional bonding with work. Moreover, it does not make only happy employees with full incentives/salaries as well as creating employees who enjoyed working in the organisation with a higher retention level (Towers Perrin (2003)  OUTCOME OF ENGAGEMENT     Swathi (2013) illustrate key outcomes of employee engagement as follows ·           Individual outcome o     Motivation-employees motivated o     Commitment-employees’ commitment is high o     Satisfaction-employees’ satisfied with their job o     Loyal-employees’ are loyal to organisation o     Secure Job- employees’ feel the job is secured o     Higher Perfor...

BENEFITS OF EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT CHARACTERISTICS OF EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT Employees classified in to three types based on their engagement level as engaged, not engaged and actively disengaged  (Gallup, Krueger and Killham, 2006). Engaged employees easy to identify as they stand apart from not engaged and actively disengaged employees. Engaged employees work with passion and willing to go for and extra mile to achieve organisational goals (Reilly, 2014). Disengaged employees are hard to identified as they spend the day uninspired and lack of motivation. Most importantly they are not disruptive and work just to fulfil their job (Reilly, 2014). Actively disengaged employees do not urge to work and always stay unhappy at work. Not only that they undermine the engaged employees’ efforts. These employees are more likely cave dwellers (Saunders and Tiwari, 2014). Figure 3: The Three Types of Employees (Source: Krueger and Killham, 20...

BENEFITS OF EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT INTRODUCTION   “Engagement takes place when people are committed to their work and the organization and are motivated to achieve high levels of performance” (Armstrong 2014, P.193)    DEFINITIONS OF EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT Employee engagement is defined as Willingness & commitment of the employees who may go for an extra mile to contribute to the success of their organisational goals by putting their creativity & energy in to it (Perrin, 2007).   Employee engagement is also defined as an emotional bonding of employees towards their organisation & it’s goals (Evans & Lindsay 2012,   Baumruk 2004, Richman 2006 and Shaw 2005 ).   Employee engagement & employee satisfaction are two different things   (Fernandez, 2007). As an example, people who worked in government sector are fully satisfied with their jobs while less engaged to the organisation.   Employee enga...