Employee Engagement – A Key to Organizational Success in 21st Century

Employee engagement is the level of commitment and involvement an employee has towards their organization and its values. An engaged employee is aware of business context, and works with colleagues to improve performance within the job for the benefit of the organization. It is a positive attitude held by the employees towards the organization and its values. The paper focuses on how employee engagement is an antecedent of job involvement and what Manager or Boss should do to make the employees engaged. The paper also looks at the Gallup 12 point questionnaire, twelve-question survey that identifies strong feelings of employee engagement and the steps which shows how to drive an engaged employee. This paper also tries to identify the key drivers of 'Employee Engagement', its different attributes together with the ways to measure it, how to handle disengaged employees and modern 'Employee Engagement' practices in corporate. Findings from various researches and surveys are used in the present work to measure the effect of 'Employee Engagement' which includes issues like productivity, profitability, focus on customer and various other related matters. Key words: employee, employee engagement, organisational success