Thursday, April 16, 2020

Employee Engagement





Introduction

Today’s competitive business environment employee engagement is a vital business driver for Organizational success. Employee engagement is a now management hot topic and which has quickly absorbed into the HR agenda (Soldati, 2007). Level of employee engagement within a Company promote retention of talent, faster customer loyalty and improve Organization performance. Further it will help to customer satisfaction, Company reputation and overall stakeholder value.

Trends in employee engagement

Economic growth and expansion have been emerging many investments opportunities and finding people for the Organization and maintaining the competitiveness from other Organizations is a key factor.    



Source:  Kincentric 2019 trends global employee engagement

Employee engagement trends have been analyzed by region, country vice and identified level differences in global movement. According to the below region analysis has proven that China and India (APAC) have positive movement in the employee engagement. 



                                                             
Source:  Kincentric 2019 trends global employee engagement

How to manage employee engagement

These factors are common to all organizations, regardless of sector. The factors which influence employee engagement are;                            
  •  Job Designing
  •  Recruitment
  •  Career Development Opportunities
  • Leadership
  • Empowerment
  • Equal Opportunities and Fair Treatment
  • Training and Development
  • Performance Management
  • Compensation
  • Job Satisfaction
  •  Communication



World leading blue-chip Company Tesco has taken many steps to maintain employee engagement in the Organization. Because Tesco has the largest workforce -295000 in the UK’s private sector. According to the Tesco personal director statement employee engagement is a key tool for employers that want to attract and retain staff (Nelson, 2012). Using engagement strategies Tesco fulfilled their business strategy in very competitive and dynamic business environment

Employee engagement in the Emerchemie NB pharmaceutical

Employee engagement is vital factor for the pharmaceutical sector and positive attitude held by the employees towards the organization and its values. These above factors such as recruitment, job designing, performance analysis etc.. directly linked with HR functions and managed by HR department of the organization and change the organization culture as well as improve the Organization employee engagement. High level of employee engagement in a Organization will expect high level of profit, revenue growth, and desired customer satisfaction, high level of productivityinnovation, staff retention, and efficiency. All these factors will satisfy all the stakeholders who are working with Organization and it will further enhance the Organization development. Engage employees can help to the Organization to achieve its mission, execute its strategy and generate important results.




References



Armstrong. M, (2006). Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice. 13 edition. London:  Kogan, P.193.

Employee engagement at Tesco. Optimizing two-way communication. [Online]

https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/employee-engagement-at-tesco-optimising-two-way-communication/ [Accessed 12th April 2020]

Trends global employee engagement. [Online]
https://www.kincentric.com/media/kincentric/pdfs/kincentric_2019_trends_global_employee_engagement.pdf [Accessed 19th April 2020]

Employee engagement. A review of current thinking. [Online]
https://www.employment-studies.co.uk/system/files/resources/files/469.pdf [Accessed 12th April 2020]

Emerchemie nb, 2008. Emerchmie nb. [Online]
http://www.slcpi.org/members/245-emerchemie-nb-ceylon-ltd.html [Accessed 20th April 2020]







7 comments:

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  2. Good.

    If you can explain how/ how can the NB pharmaceutical make employee engagement successful, that will increase the value of your post.

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  3. Hi Dulan,
    To take such a benefits we do have to follow more theory for your organization,engagement can be vary within one person and it will be changing daily basis and it will be changing in between individually(Sonnentag, 2003).

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    1. Thank you Nirman your valuable comments.I do agree with you point and it is a valuable insights for an organization to develop engagement strategies.

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  4. Very good effort Dulan can get some valuable insights how employee engagement apply on global context company like Tesco. Employee engagement strategies have been proven to reduce staff turnover improve productivity and efficiency and make more profit most importantly,engage employees happier both at work and in their lives.so if you could explain out come of Emerchemie NB employees in those aspects it will give more value for your blog post.

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  5. Thank you Manjula your suggestion.through engagement Emerchemie employees will enjoy following out comes.
    1. Make happy
    2. Positive vibes
    3. Enjoy with innovation
    4. Satisfaction
    5. Motivation

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  6. Nicely explained article. Very informative too.

    Further to the discussion, allow me to add some strategies which can be implemented by the employer in order to Keep the Employees Engaged During current Coronavirus Outbreak.

    * Provide Extra assistance - On the job & off the job support
    * Support employee development - by training and mentoring
    * Host Weekly Video Conferences / informal chats
    * Create an Online groups in order to cater proper communication.
    * Send a Weekly Coronavirus Update Email / message
    * Keeping the team inspired all the time.
    * Taking care of employees personal matters too.

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