Strategies for Employee Engagement at Catanet Nigeria Ltd

This report delves into the critical issue of employee engagement at Catanet Nigeria Ltd, an internet service provider facing high employee turnover, customer complaints, and poor safety records, threatening the company's closure. The analysis identifies internal threats like extreme turnover at the middle management level and external threats such as negative press due to mismanagement. To address these challenges, the report proposes the implementation and evaluation of effective employee engagement practices, including inspiring committed leadership, prioritizing day-to-day communication, and concentrating on engaging management through employee skill development and placement. The report emphasizes the importance of communication and responsible management in retaining staff, improving customer satisfaction, and ensuring the long-term sustainability of Catanet Nigeria Ltd in the competitive Nigerian market. Desklib provides access to similar solved assignments and resources for students.

EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ...........................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................................3
How will you ensure ongoing progress in the area of employee engagement in your organisation
through implementation and evaluation of effective practice, process and management?...................3
CONCLUSION.............................................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES ..............................................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Employee engagement defines as a concept of human resource that express the level of
dedication and passion that a particular employee fees at the time of performing their job..
Employees who are engaged in their work perform their task in proficient manner that reflects an
organization image in positive manner within competitive marketplace (Sun and
Bunchapattanasakda, 2019). This particular report emphasis on Catanet Nigeria Ltd who faces
major issues related to extreme employee turnover due to which they face high customer
complaints and poor safety records. It shows poor management who are not working effectively
in terms of managing employees. Catanet Nigeria Ltd is an organization who is a leading internet
service provider. The company having around 3000 technical and support staff and approx 1550
employees are working in customer experience centers within the 5 areas of Nigeria state.
Recently organization would face the issue employee engagement due to which company is face
the threat of closure. To overcome with these issues in a boardroom discussion, a call is to be
made where an expert team is developed in which each and every team member experts in
employee engagement so that company reduce high employee turnover. To effectively manage
employee engagement this report is very useful as it elucidates ongoing process in the framework
of employee engagement within Catanet Nigeria Ltd by using several effective practice,
management and process so that organization maintains their brand image and profit margin
effectively and also sustain for longer time period. Hence it helps the reader to understand the
power of employee engagement effectively so that they emphasis on follow employee
engagement at their workplace.
MAIN BODY
How will you ensure ongoing progress in the area of employee engagement in your
organisation through implementation and evaluation of effective practice, process
and management?
Employee engagement
Employee engagement defines as a fundamental concept within human resource
management of an organization as it demonstrates the efforts to understand and define both
quantitatively and qualitatively nature of relationship among workers and superiors. It is very

crucial for a business entity to have engaged employees so that firm is able to maximize their
productivity, quality of work and retain top talent. It is crucial for business industry to have
positive employee engagement because due to this company satisfied customers effectively that
gives prominent results to organization sustainability. Within an organization, an engaged
employee works to generate revenue for company so that workers who are working within that
outlet enjoy high pay (Mone and London, 2018). Engaged employees adopts the discretionary
efforts where they ensures that work yield high results. This also helps in lowering the
absenteeism of employees that support in maximizing the culture of company so that beneficial
outcomes are enjoyed by company. It also crucial to eliminates number of safety incidents which
is important to maintain the work life balance. To effectively develops employee engagement
within Catenet Nigeria Ltd it is essential to identify the issues that were discuss in boardroom so
that proper employee engagement is to be done and company does not face the closure threat in
market. The problems that Catanet Nigeria Ltd. Face are demonstrated below:
Problem identification
In context of Catanet Nigeria Ltd, company face a threat of closure because of high level
of employee turnover due to poor management and high customer customers and poor safety
records. The company face irresponsible management who are not working properly in terms of
hiring suitable candidate for suitable job position due to these high conflicts would raise and
targets are not achieved effectively. Due to this employees are not engaged in their working. This
company is an internet service provider where around 3000 employees are in technical and
support staff, 1550 working in customer experience centers within the 5 states of western part of
country Nigeria (Tsourvakas and Yfantidou, 2018). There are various issues that Catanet Nigeria
Ltd face related to employment engagement issues due to this company face the threat of closing
of company. Therefore, if the company closed due to this reason than it results that 5000
employees are lose their jobs along with entity core products and services will lose the value in
the local area of Nigeria that affects negatively on their image. However by examine the aspects ,
it is to be identified that company Catanet Nigeria Ltd face internal and external threats due to
mismanagement in employee engagement are occur, these are presented below:
Internal threats that a concerned organization face:

Internal issues are those which are present within the organization itself. In context of
Catanet Nigeria Ltd it is to be demonstrated that firm face extreme employee turnover mainly at
middle management level. It is done so because at this level, employees are asked to perform
task without getting much resources and they have no control over decision (Shuck, 2019). In
this management does not place employees at suitable place due to which they are not satisfied
with their working that impact negatively on employee engagement. Another internal issue due
to which threat of closure is increased is more complaints of customers related to poor safety
and security. Due to which customer face the hacking issues as Catanet Nigeria Ltd is a internet
service provider company where safety of employees and customers are highly important.
External issues
These are those issues that present outside the organization. In terms of Catanet Nigeria
Ltd. Bad press report because of irresponsible management and mismanagement of staff
where candidate are not placing at right position to perform the right job role due to which
image of brand is negatively hampered.
Therefore by evaluating above threats that Catanet Nigeria Ltd face, further evaluation of
employee engagement practices, process and management are presented so that such type of
issues are to be resolved and organization enjoy sustainability with effective engagement of
employees (Wu and Wu, 2019). Such practices, process and management of employee
engagement are presented below:
Implementation and evaluation of employee engagement practices
Employee engagement practice defines as that practice which are crucial to ensure that
business organization run smoothly and efficiently as a whole. In context of Catanet Nigeria
Ltd., company faces issues of closure due to mismanagement, complaints of customers etc. to
overcome with this issues manager of company has been implement these practices of employee
engagement that are presented below:
 Inspire committed and aligned leaders- To overcome with the threat of closure,
employee engagement is important and to maintain it efficiently company aligned targets
with leaders. Therefore employee engagement is a two way street in which if leaders does

not prioritizing the engagement on the top than employees does not feel towards attaining
company goals and vision. In context of Catanet Nigeria Ltd manager highly emphasis on
interacting with the leaders for allocating staff members on suitable position in correct
time. Hence at my workplace, leaders are the best to monitor engagement and examine
the key areas of friction that are uncovered (Balwant and et.al., 2019). Therefore if Top
level management does not effectively implement this practice properly than they face
the issues of employee dissatisfaction. Due to which workers are not performing their
roles prominently and this effect customer retention and increases buyers complaints.
Hence, emphasis on engaging leaders and managers into employee’s task and position
helps in lead high success due to which firm will sustain longer time period. This practice
also helps in saving the job of 5000 employees and also develops high value of products
and services within local area of Nigeria.
 Prioritize day to day communication with employees- To become highly engaged
organization and overcome with the fear of closure it is essential to an organization to
prioritize face time that means communication between managers and employees.
However, at middle level hierarchy communication is very important to engage
employees in working. Therefore in Catanet Nigeria Ltd, to remove the issue of high
turnover manager implements this practice within company, where they follow one to
one meeting, E-MAILS from leadership, EXIT interviews, social media tools, emphasis
on formal goals setting and tracking programs’, survey on employee engagement,
performance review etc. all these factors are implemented under the organization so that
extreme turnover of employees are reduced (Ellinger and Franke, 2018). It is essential to
eliminate the customer complaints that impact negatively on organization image and
create a threat of closure of company. Communication is a medicine to solve issues
present within organization and for Catanet Nigeria Ltd, it play a prominent role. Due to
proper communication done between manager and employees activities are easily
understand by employees and also manager easily place employees on correct position.
This shows a responsible management of company that has been useful to retain staff
within organization along with problem of inadequate workforce is to be reduced.

 Concentrate on engaging management- In an organization manager’s level of efforts in
engaging employees directly affects the teams and image of company in marketplace. In
context of Catanet Nigeria Ltd manager does not effectively show their concentration on
engaging management that reflect irresponsibility of management team. Therefore
because of this, employees are not engaged in their working as they are not placed at
right position. Due to this issue, customers complaints are raising related to not to get
effective services. To overcome with these issues, concentrate of employee management
practice (such as stay committed with employees, reward efforts, hold regular meetings,
emphasis on team efforts, create cultural cohesiveness) of employee engagement is to be
essential for Catanet Nigeria Ltd where employee is emphasis on employee’s skills and
development so that they place at right position at correct place. Company implement this
practice to enhance employee engagement at workplace. Therefore, this helps in solving
the customers issues so that their complaints are eliminates and threat of closing the
organization is to be eliminated (Albrecht and Marty, 2020). Manager of company has
been focus on employee engagement because it helps in developing market image so that
customers inhale the value of products and services that company offers in marketplace.
It also helps in gaining competitive advantage within marketplace. At middle level
management this practice is crucial because it offer quickly way to develop employee
engagement across the board so that maximum profitable results are attained by business
in their long term survival. Hence this eliminates the threat of closure and develops the
opportunity of enhancing value and sustainability in competitive market.
From the above explained practices that are implemented by manager in employee
engagement it is to be evaluated that for maintaining the value of products and services and
removing the threat of closing of company these practices are crucial. As per above mentioned
practices , communication is highly important because without it no one can understand the level
of responsibility that is significant for present company benefits in front of competitors and
customers. To reflect a responsible management at middle level management it is essential that
management concentrate on offering voluntary opportunity to employees by placing right
candidate on right place (Al-Jabri, 2020). On the other hand, if management of Catanet Nigeria
Ltd does not implement these practices properly then they face the threat of closure of company

along with 5000 employees are being unemployed and they also reduce the value of their
products and services in the marketplace.
Implementation of process and management of employee engagement
It is a hardcore fact that future business performance, profitability and revenues of each
and every organization is no longer depends on traditional capital management and portfolio
investment but it is highly based on changing business environment and employee engagement.
Therefore the success of business organization is higher employee engagement, involvement and
dedication of employees towards attaining task. It is demonstrated that organizational
performance and employee engagement are interlinked with one another due to this high
profitable sustainable results are enjoyed by organization. In context of Catanet Nigeria Ltd
employee engagement process and management is recommended to implement at organization
so that problems or threats of company is to be reduced. The process of employee engagement is
presented below:
 Prepare and design- It is the first process under employee engagement that express
appropriate requirements of company that is useful for manager in deciding the priorities.
Therefore, manager of the Catanet Nigeria Ltd emphasis on customized design to carry
the whole process effectively (Ghosh and et. al., 2019). It is crucial for every team
member at top level management to design the process in appropriate manner so that
employees are put on right place and right time. In this manager recognize the
requirements of job so that placing employees effectively. Therefore due to this
employees show their engagement in attaining targets. Hence, it is crucial for manager to
prepare and design the priorities so that targets are attained efficiently and issues related
to irresponsible behavior of middle level management is to be resolved.
 Employee engagement survey- It is another process of employee engagement in which
manager emphasis on designing employee engagement survey and deploys it with the
help of media. This also help Catanet Nigeria Ltd to solve their problem of negative press
report because with the use of employee engagement survey media of a country highly
encouraged towards company culture and present the news of organization in positive
manner. This also represent the company responsible management who works effectively

by placing suitable candidate on correct position and supervised them properly to attain
goals of business in prominent manner.
 Results analysis- This step is highly crucial step within the employee engagement
process that is implemented by Catanet Nigeria Ltd in their business organization to
overcome with the issue of closing of company because of mismanagement of manager at
middle level and least employee engagement in targets attainment. In this manager of
Catanet Nigeria emphasis on examine reports to find out what exactly motivates
employees so that they engaged with the customers 24*7 and ensures that customers does
not face any issues and if they face it could be resolved in a small period of time so that
they feel safe. It helps in retaining customers and employees with the company. For this
manager offer training session to employees related to task that they performed and also
motivates them for their good efforts so that workers are engaged in the organization
ongoing process of success (He and et. al., 2021). These results in removing the threat
that business entity face because of high negativity rise internally and externally. Hence,
these results are mainly delivered by manager of Catanet Nigeria Ltd using presentation.
 Action planning- In this process of employee engagement, manager focus on turn the
results of survey into action and it represent quite challenging for top management team
mates to deal in such a situation (Mahipalan, 2018). In this high authority emphasis on
offering training and coaching session to leaders and HR professionals so that they
effectively understand how to take appropriate actions to engage with employees. In this
manager of top authority ensures that they deliver proper information to middle level
managers and HR professional so that they understand their responsibility related to
engaging employees in attaining targets along with do’s and don’ts so that changes for
developing friendly culture where employees engagement is more is shown and that gives
successful results by eliminating the issues of Catenet Nigeria that results the closure of
company and creates issue of leaving 5000 employees along with reducing the value of
company offerings.
 Action follow ups- It is a last process of employee engagement in which company need
to monitor the actions as they are taken in right direction or not. In context of Catanet
Nigeria Ltd this step in employee engagement is highly crucial because it helps in

recognizing that business organisation attained goals effectively or not. In this top
authority emphasis on communicating the process related to activities so that each and
every employee understands their work and effectively engaged in attaining the targets.
Therefore by implementing the process of employee engagement it is to be evaluated that for
Catanet Nigeria Ltd it is important to follow these stages of process so that they easily overcome
with the internal and external issues that they were faced at the time of performing business
activities (Busse and Regenberg, 2019). If they cannot execute in proper manner than they
enhance the issues of lack of employee engagement due to which company would be close soon.
Management role in employee engagement
In Catanet Nigeria Ltd. management play their role in appropriate manner in which they
ensure that they emphasis on developing great talent by recognizing their skills and attributes and
placing them on correct position (Kaur, 2018). Hence, at workplace top managers actively
priorities employee engagement as it is important to maintain security level because it is a
internet provider company where safety and security is one of the major aspect. In this manager
ensures that they develop a team that aligns perfectly towards attaining the mission of
organization.
Leader’s role in employee engagement
In an organization leader play a crucial role as they work for defining and communicating
the powerful vision (Mani and Mishra, 2021). In Catanet Nigeria Ltd, leaders emphasis on
discussing powerful vision of company along with hire and develop those managers who are
emotionally invested within reaching the organization mission and vision. In this leaders also
emphasis on providing resources to build great teams by placing right people in right position
that is important for engaging employees in work and reducing customer complaints,
maintaining security level etc.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it is concluded that employee engagement is a crucial concept
within each and every organization for sustain long time period within marketplace. It is
significant to elaborate the nature of relationship between organization and its employees.

Employee engagement is represent an aid to company. This report inculcates the concept of
employee engagement along with depicting ongoing progress in employee engagement using
various appropriate practice, process and management. By completing this report, it is to be
acknowledged the reader that employee engagement is more crucial because it produce between
results for business sustainability and helps in enhancing competitive advantage within
marketplace. For the organization that face high employee turnover it is important for
management to emphasis on implementing several practices and ensures that those practices,
process are properly followed within company so that employees are working effectively in
terms of attracting large base of customers by offering quality services to them.

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