The Social Psychology of Organizations.

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the key determinants of employee engagement and their predictability of the concept. It also studies the impact of employee engagement on employee performance. Design/methodology/approach – Causal study was done to study the impact of relationships. A survey questionnaire was developed and validated using a pilot data (a=0.975). Simple random sampling was used to select the employees from middle and lower managerial levels from small-scale organisations. A total of 700 questionnaires were distributed and 383 valid responses collected. Regression and structural equation modelling were used to predict and estimate the relationships. Findings – It was found that all the identified factors were predictors of employee engagement (r2, 0.672), however, the variables that had major impact were working environment and team and co-worker relationship. Employee engagement had significant impact on employee performance (r2, 0.597). Practical implications – Special fo...

Determinants of employee engagement and their impact on employee performance

The principle of engagement underlies much of the relational and organization–public communication research. Unfortunately, the principle of engagement suffers from a lack of clarity in the public relations literature. Use of the term engagement varies widely. This article clarifies the principle of engagement by positioning it within dialogue theory. We posit a conceptualization of engagement as: Engagement is part of dialogue and through engagement, organizations and publics can make decisions that create social capital. Engagement is both an orientation that influences interactions and the approach that guides the process of interactions among groups.

Dialogic Engagement: Clarifying Foundational Concepts

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A Study on the Drivers of Employee Engagement Impacting Employee Performance

Valuing internal communication; management and employee perspectives

This Strategic Communication. Four-Volume set (part of the Sage Benchmarks in Communication series) captures the definitions, key developments and future of the field through a carefully-selected collection of seminal papers on the topic.

Mary Welch

Papers

Chapter 69: The evolution of the employee engagement concept: communication implications