Employee Engagement, HRM Practices, and Competitive Advantage Analysis

This report provides an in-depth analysis of the article "Employee engagement, human resource management practices and competitive advantage: An integrated approach" by Albrecht et al. (2015). The report begins with an introduction that outlines the background of the article, which focuses on the alignment of employee engagement with human resource practices and its impact on an organization's competitive advantage. The aims of the article are then discussed, highlighting its goals of integrating human resource management with existing literature on employee engagement, integrating various performance models, mapping factors at individual, job, and organizational levels, and addressing psychological experiences affecting employees. The analysis section discusses the mechanisms by which human resource practices affect employee engagement and the competitive advantage of a business organization. The article proposes seven propositions to promote employee engagement and the influence of human resource practices, emphasizing the importance of basic human resource management practices. The findings of the article reveal that organizational climate perceptions are affected by human resource management systems, job satisfaction is influenced by individual differences, and organizational climate affects job demands and resources. The report also outlines practical implications, strategic management models, and recommendations, including the importance of job crafting and assisting employees in utilizing job resources. The report concludes with references to the original article.

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Index
 Chosen Article
 Background of the article
 Aims of the article
 Article analysis
 Findings of the article
 Practical Implications
 Strategic management model
 Recommendation and conclusion
 References

Chosen Article:
“Employee engagement, human resource management
practices and competitive advantage: An integrated
approach” by Albrecht et al. (2015)

Background of the Article:
 Albrecht et al. (2015) have 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 article 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

Aims of the article:
 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).
 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.
 to implement the mapping of the different factors that exist within the
individual, job and the organizational levels.
 To focus on the issues that are presented by the psychological experiences that
affect the employees of the organization.

Article analysis
 The article 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).
 (Albrecht et al. 2015) have addressed 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.

Article analysis (Continuation..)
 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.
 It 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

Article analysis (Continuation..)
 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 within the article are the bottom-up and the top-
down approaches that are undertaken by the concerned company.

Article analysis (Continuation..)
 The article discusses the facts that are presented through the issues
that are presented within the literature that is existent on the subject
of employee engagement.
 It states that the issues that are employees who have been serving at
the human resource department within the given organizations.

Findings of the Article
 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 job satisfaction of the employees of the organization is also affected
by the individual differences that exist within the given organization.
 organizational climate have an influence on the demands and the
resources of the jobs that are offered by the concern (Albrecht et al.
2015).

Findings of the Article (Continuation..)
 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 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).

Findings of the Article (Continuation..)
 Employees of the organization 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.