Employee Engagement

Employee engagement has changed enormously during recent years. Employer has to be able to keep its employees motivated in order to keep them in the company. Nowadays talented employees will constantly search for other career opportunities if they feel like they are not satisfied with the current one. Globalization has enabled people to look various job markets elsewhere and the competition between various field is huge. This also means that companies are becoming more multinational than ever before. Employers have difficult task to attract new workers to join the company because they have to consider possible cultural differences and how to react to these. Other important thing is to arrange appropriate training and working tools so that employees will learn how to use them daily in the organization. With right tools and knowledge how to use them employees get the feeling that they know what they are doing and that raises the engagement for the company (Hay Group, 2014.)



The employer benefits from engaged workers a lot, it is quite clear if thinking about it widely. Engaged employee will lead to affect to companies NPS in positive way. They perform better service and are motivated to sell more effectively so that company earn profits (Kevin Kruse, 2012.)

 

I found very interesting article which said that 85% of the employees are not engaged to their workplace because employees don’t really care their workplace, they just want to make it through the day. People who really are engaged for their company they really want to do their best that the company will be successful and achieve its’ goals. (According to this same blog article these companies are 21% profitable.) These workers also have less absenteeism because they want to do the job properly and not take any “fake” absences. And when thinking about this in bigger perspective, companies will lose a lot of money for employees who are just hanging around and not really interested to do their job properly (Smarp blog, 2021.) 

 





In my opinion the most important thing for me as an employee to be engaged for the company is career development opportunities. If I know that when performing well in my job which I like, I have possibility to have a higher position in the future that really motivates me. One of my previous jobs I acknowledged that I wasn’t engaged at all to that because I knew that I didn’t have any chances for personal career development, so I was just hanging there and browsing the job markets. 

  

 

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