Employee Engagement: A Review Paper on Factors Affecting Employee Engagement

Employee engagement

IES’s research has defined engagement, created an engagement measure and provided an engagement diagnostic tool. We have established that our measure and diagnostic tool work well in a variety of settings and sectors, and identified the major challenges that must be faced by organisations wishing to reap the benefits of high engagement levels. Raising engagement levels, and maintaining them, ta...

Managerial perspectives on employee engagement

Background Senior management and leadership are believed to be responsible for the employment of such initiatives and their own level of engagement appears to have a strong impact on the levels of employees’ engagement, theory suggests. This qualitative research explores the perceived levels, drivers and benefits, as well as the levels of managerial engagement at Organisation A, a leading suppo...

The Buzzword: Employee Engagement. Does Person-Organization Fit Contribute to Employee Engagement?

This study aimed to investigate the relationship between person-organization value fit and employee engagement, as well as to develop a new scale for measuring organizational engagement. We considered person-organization fit with a degree of similarity between personal values and organizational values. These values were measured by the Organizational Culture Profile (OCP). We divided employee e...

White paper: The impact of employee engagement on performance

Performance management and employee engagement

Many contemporary organizations are placing a greater emphasis on their performance management systems as a means of generating higher levels of job performance. We suggest that producing performance increments may be best achieved by orienting the performance management system to promote employee engagement. To this end, we describe a new approach to the performance management process that inc...