Enhancing Employee Engagement

This book provides an evidence-based approach to understanding declining levels of employee engagement, offering a set of practices that individuals and organizations can adopt in order to improve productivity and organizational performance. It introduces a model outlining how the experience of meaningful work impacts engagement and other organizational attitudes and behaviors. It recognizes the antecedents and consequences of such behavior, recognizing that they must be considered as components of an organizational system rather than in isolation. It will be useful for scholars and practitioners in identifying and remedying the endemic trend of disconnected workers and their negative impact on organizational goals.

Simultaneously examines the macro and micro factors that contribute to engagement at work in a cross-cultural context Directly addresses the issue as back by recent polls and reports on disengagement in the United States and globally Uniquely positions engagement as a standalone factor in driving organizational success

Autorentext

J. Lee Whittington is Professor of Management at the University of Dallas, USA. He is the author of Biblical Perspectives on Leadership and Organizations and co-author of Leading the Sustainable Organization with Tim Galpin and Greg Bell. Simone Meskelis is a Doctoral Student in the Business Administration Program at the University of Dallas, USA. Prior to starting the DBA Program she worked as an Associate Professor at Fundao Dom Cabral, Brazil. Enoch Asare is a Doctoral Student in the Business Administration Program at the University of Dallas, USA. He is also the Senior Reporting Specialist in Luminant Power, a subsidiary of Energy Future Holdings. Sri Beldona is Professor of Management at the University of Dallas, USA. His research papers have appeared in various international journals and he is also a regular participant in numerous international conferences.

Inhalt

1: Employee Engagement.- 2: A Comprehensive, Integrated Model of Employee Engagement.- 3: The Meaningfulness-Engagement Connection.- 4: Creating Meaning at Work through Transformational Leadership.- 5: Creating Meaning in Work through Job Enrichment.- 6: Bringing Meaning to Work through Integrated Faith.- 7: Enhancing Engagement through the Human Resource Value Chain.- 8: Enhancing Engagement through Effective Performance Management.- 9: Engagement Across Cultures.- 10: Enhancing Employee Engagement: A Road-Map for Managers.