Employee Engagement Programs and their Impact on Minimizing Absenteeism

Employee engagement
programs- Essay

Contents
Contents...........................................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Employee engagement refers to the level of enthusiasm as well as dedication that is felt
by a worker towards their job. It can be typical to a success of company but enhances the morale
and job satisfaction of employees within the organisation. Within this assignment, an essay is
going to be presented that is related to the concept of absenteeism (Afsar, Al‐Ghazali and
Umrani, 2020). This essay also includes the advantages and disadvantages of the employee
engagement programmes in minimising the staff absenteeism. There will be a discussion on the
positive and negative arguments of the programs related to employee engagement on the basis of
a research and conclusions will be drawn from it.
MAIN BODY
A popular personality Richard Branson who is a business entrepreneur of Britain has
expressed that employees come first and is an organisation will take care of its workers then
employees will take care of the organisation. It has also been claimed by The Chartered
Management Institute (2015) that human resources are favourably involved towards work give
better performance and are actually more productive. The interest within the concept of
employee engagement or involvement has been grown since the past years and has also been
reinforced by the force of recent recession of economy. In such circumstances, making optimum
utilisation of the employees and their skills as well as experiences along with keeping them
happy and feel them valued is very crucial within an organisation (Employee engagement, 2022).
Absenteeism refers to a situation when a worker is frequently and habitually absent from
the work. It excludes occasions and paid leaves wherein a manager has granted a subordinate
time off. Employee engagement programs are considered as a significant as well as effective tool
in minimising the absenteeism of the employees towards the work. In order to understand the
relationship between absenteeism and employee engagement, the motivation to employees is a
key factor that is required to be consider. Psychologist Abraham Maslow 1940s has first
developed the motivational theory and stated that an individual has a hierarchy of needs which
are required to be satisfied from the basic needs before going to the top level needs such as self-
actualisation as well as self-esteem (Chaudhary and Akhouri, 2018). The Chartered Institute of
Personal and Development (2016) has also claimed that the concept of absenteeism has
contributed great losses for the businesses. This is also estimated that the absenteeism cost will