Employee Engagement, HR Practices, and Competitive Advantage

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Albrecht et al. (2015) in the article entitled “Employee engagement, human resource
management practices and competitive advantage: An integrated approach” attempted a
discussion on the employee engagement within an organization should be aligned to the
practices, procedures and the policies that are followed by the human resource department within
the organization. The concerned paper in sheds light on the ways in which the competitive
advantage of a certain organization might be affected by the strategic focus that is directed to the
engagement of the employees of the organization. The authors of the article aim to provide the
integration across the departments of the human resource management with the existing literature
on the employee engagement which had been considered to have run parallel to each other
(Albrecht et al. 2015). The authors of the article tend to integrate the various models of the
performance models that are included in the human resource management of the multitude of the
organizations that are active in the international market.
The authors of the article tend to implement the mapping of the difference factors that
exist within the individual, job and the organizational levels. These factors tend to discuss the
factors that help in the explanation on the fact that the human resource practices that generally
tend to lead to the engagement of the employees within the organization as well as the outcomes
of the proper performance within the organization in discussion (Albrecht et al. 2015). The
authors tend to address the several mechanisms in which the practices of the human resource
departments affect the employee engagement and in turn affect the competitive advantage of the
concerned business organization within the given industry as well as the market.
The authors of the article further state organizational climate perceptions are majorly
affected by the systems of the human resource management that are active within the business
organizations that are active all over the world. The authors further argue on the influences that

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are presented by the organizational climate on the demands and the resources of the jobs that are
offered by the concern (Albrecht et al. 2015). The majorly argue on the fact that the various
constructs like the job satisfaction of the employees of the organization is also affected by the
individual differences that exist within the given organization.
Albrecht et al. (2015) argue that there are various developed frameworks that might help
in the explanation that is necessary for the explanations of the effect of the management of the
human resources on the improvement of the competitive advantage within the given
organization. The study further focusses on the issues that are presented by the psychological
experiences that affect the employees of the organization. The employee engagement is known to
have been affecting the behavior as depicted by the concerned employees in terms of crafting of
the jobs at hand (Albrecht et al. 2015). The employees of the organizations as discussed by the
concerned authors, tend to put forth their own concerns, ideas and suggestions within the
business organization that encourages the extensive amount of the engagement for the
employees.
Albrecht et al. (2015) aim to propose seven propositions that might be implemented
within the organizations in order to promote the issues that are related to the employee
engagement and the influence of the practices of the human resource department within the
concerned business organization. The article states that the concerned organizations tend to deal
with the basic practices of the human resource management despite the differences in their
strategic focusses that help the companies to stand out in the markets wherein they feature. The
article attempts to discuss the approaches that should be undertaken by the organizational
management in order to deal with the improvement of the employee engagement within the
concerned business organization (Albrecht et al. 2015). The major approaches that are discussed