analyzing the effect of employee engagement on job performance in isfahan gas company

in today’s competitive world employees with engagement can interact with their job and have desirable job performance. since improvement of employees’ job performance is the key of efficiency in all levels of organization, investigation of variables leading to the improvement of job performance is of great importance. thus the purpose of the present research is to analyze the effect of employee engagement on job performance of employees in gas company in isfahan. this is an applied research in respect to its purpose and correlational descriptive survey research in respect to its methodology. sample population of this study consisted all the employees with degree of diploma or higher degrees of education in gas company in isfahan in 1393 among whom 100 employees were selected randomly. the instrument of data collection was consisted of two questionnaires. in order to collect the views of respondents in regards to the variable of employee engagement the questionnaire of towers perrin (2003) was used and for collecting the views of respondents regarding job performance, the researcher’s questionnaire was used. the results indicated that employee engagement has a positive and meaningful effect on job performance and its value is 0.811.