Employee Engagement and Job Satisfaction

Employee engagement has become a burning topic in recent years been studied in the academic literature and relatively little known about its antecedents and consequences. The term is used at different times referring to psychological states, traits, and behaviors as well as their antecedents and outcomes. Numerous theories explain what engagement is and how it is similar to and different from related constructs in the organizational behavior literature, results in having a better understanding of some of the key 'components' of engagement. Job satisfaction is derived from and is caused by many inter-related factors. Although these factors can never be completely isolated from one another for analysis, they can by the use of statistical techniques, be separated enough to give an indication of their relative importance to job satisfaction.

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Dr. Anjali, a Doctorate in Human Resource Management, has a decade of experience in teaching and research. Her areas of research are Employee Engagement, Leadership, Financial Derivatives, Capital Markets and Financial Management.