Employee Engagement

                                                                      Photo Credit: Pexels               (https://images.pexels.com/photos/7640484/pexels-photo-7640484.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&w=600)   Employee Engagement is crucial for any organization to drive toward success. However, it is important to identify the possible Challenges and Barriers to Employee Engagement. Let’s discuss five main Challenges in Employee Engagement and solutions for same. 1.      Poor Leadership Poor leadership can be in many ways such as over-micromanaging bosses, over-pleasing bosses, Inflexible and authoritarian bosses, etc… An organization with poor leadership creates highly disengaged employees due to a lack of motivation and dissatisfaction a...

                                                          Photo Credit: Pexels                                            (https://images.pexels.com/photos/1181605/pexels-photo-1181605.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&w=600) In this blog post, I will discuss ‘Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs’ and the applicability of the same to Employee Engagement.   Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs   In a 1943 paper titled "A Theory of Human Motivation," American psychologist Abraham Maslow theorized that human decision-making is undergirded by a hierarchy of psychological needs. In his initial paper and a subsequent 1954 book titled Motivation and Personality, Maslow proposed that five core needs form the basis for human behavioral moti...

  Image by PEXELS https://www.pexels.com/photo/woman-wearing-gray-shirt-3184298/   Every leader expects to have motivated workers under their direction. They desire a group of motivated workers, to put it another way. However, why exactly is this so significant? What advantages do engaged employees enjoy? Employee engagement is influenced by numerous factors. A few indicators of engagement include things like how content employees are at work, how close they feel to their coworkers and management, and how frequently they feel recognized and valued for their actions at work. (DeBara and St-Aubin, 2022) 1.   Good Team Performance   Employee Engagement is not only beneficial at an individual level but also improves performance as a team. Because a bunch of motivated individuals will perform at a high level all the time. Ultimately this will benefit the organization as a whole when it comes to achieving the corporate goal.   2.   High productivi...

                                  Image credit:Getty ( https://media.gettyimages.com/id/1354842116/photo/shot-of-a-group-of-businesspeople-having-a-discussion-in-an-office.jpg )   What Is Employee Engagement Employee engagement is a human resources (HR) concept that describes the level of enthusiasm and dedication a worker feels toward their job. Engaged employees care about their work and about the performance of the company, and feel that their efforts make a difference. An engaged employee is in it for more than a paycheck and may consider their well-being linked to their performance, and thus instrumental to their company's success. (Smith, 2022)   Employee Engagement for Employees As an employee if you are getting up in the morning with the enthusiasm to work, with some brilliant ideas to get the work done and if you truly feel that you are part of the company and you have t...