The Predictors of Employee Engagement: A Study in a Ferro Alloys Company of India

Abstract

Employee engagement is now the buzzword for any organization. Although it was initially believed that a satisfied employee is the most engaged employee, contradictory findings have compelled researchers to identify alternate models of engagement. In the same line of thought, this study aims at identifying the triggers of employee engagement. Employees in the payroll of a reputed ferro alloys company of India were surveyed to obtain relevant information on employee engagement. Data analysis on 250 responses reveals that factors such as age, senior leadership, manager, colleagues, customers, work, resources, processes, career opportunities, learning and development, work–life balance, physical work environment, policies, people practices, performance assessment, diversity, company reputation, pay, benefits and recognition significantly correlated with employee engagement. However, on account of multicollinearity, when stepwise regression was conducted, following factors were found to be significantly predicting employee engagement: senior leadership, work, company reputation, manager, process, colleague and physical work environment. Results were discussed in relations to recent findings in other industries.

Influence of Employee Attributes, Work Context and Human Resource Management Practices on Employee Job Engagement

“…Park and Gursoy (2012) see employee engagement as a motivational construct, which results from the positive experience an individual has at work. Putting this more succinctly, Mishra and Mohanty (2016) opined that job engagement thrives in an organizational culture which portrays trust, connectedness, integrity and opportunities of development. These authors noted that job characteristics determine employees' experiences.…”

“…One of the studies that had been carried out on employee engagement is that of Mishra and Mohanty (2016), which investigated the predictors of job engagement within the context of Ferro Alloys Company in India. The results revealed that age, company reputation, physical work environment and relationship with leadership and colleagues predicted employee job engagement.…”

“…Some researchers have suggested that job engagement measures job attitudes such as organizational citizenship behavior and organizational commitment, Mishra and Mohanty (2016) however noted that while organizational citizenship behavior measures voluntary efforts of the employee for the benefit of the organization, job engagement measures the focus of the individual on the job role and not extra role. Similarly, while organizational commitment measures attachment to the organization, job engagement measures attentiveness of the employee to the job task.…”

“…Brown (2013) however noted that employee engagement varies with context. As a result, Mishra and Mohanty (2016) suggested that job engagement studies should be carried out in various industry contexts to fully understand the concept. However, very little is known about job engagement in the context of architectural firms.…”

Factors affecting Millennials Employee Engagement in Government Sector

“…This tag has gained popularity since organization has found it a strategic asset which is hard to emulate (Joo et al, 2006[16]; Mishra et al, 2016) [26]. According to (Kahn, 1990) [17], an emotionally as well as physically present when performing job task or organization functions.…”