Employee Engagement: A Literature Review

Running head: MANAGEMENT
Leading and Managing Organizations
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Abstract:
The report is a literature review on the employee engagement that explains how the various
aspects like employee motivation and job crafting play a vital role in enhancing the employee
engagement. The report also put forward a discussion as to how the workplace presently
engages the employees. There is also discussion on why different engagement practices are
important for the different staffs. The report through the literature review also explains the worth
of the employee engagement.

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Table of Contents
Introduction:....................................................................................................................................3
1. Literature Review:.......................................................................................................................3
1.1 Employee Engagement..............................................................................................................3
1.2 Job Crafting in Empowering Employees for Boosting Engagement.........................................4
1.3 Employee Motivation to Increase Engagement.........................................................................5
1.4 How Present Day Workplaces Engages Employees..................................................................6
1.5 Are Different Engagement Practices Required for Different Staff...........................................7
1.6. Is the Investment in Engagement Worthwhile?........................................................................8
Conclusion:......................................................................................................................................8
References:....................................................................................................................................10

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Introduction:
The report aims at providing an insight into leading and managing organizations through
a literature review on the employee engagement. The literature review commences with the
definition of employee engagement and then goes on to explain how job crafting and employee
motivation plays a key role in boosting employee engagement. The report also focuses attention
to the fact as to how the workplaces are presently engaging the staffs. The report also portrays
how different engagement practices are necessary for different staffs. Further, through the
literature review the report provides an insight into worth of investment in employee engagement
followed by a conclusion.
1. Literature Review:
1.1 Employee Engagement
According to Anitha (2014), employee engagement is defined as harnessing the
organizational member to their specific work roles and in the process of engagement, people not
only express and employee them physically but also emotionally and cognitively during the
performance of their roles. The cognitive feature of the employee engagement involves the
beliefs regarding the organization, the leaders and the working condition (Saks and Gruman
2014). The emotional aspect, on the other hand, is concerned about the feelings of employees in
each of the three factors mentioned and whether they deliver a positive or negative attitude
towards the leaders and the organization while the physical aspects of the employee engagement
is concerned with physical energies exerted by the individual in accomplishing their roles.
Therefore, according to Garg (2014), engagement represents the psychological as the physical