What is employee engagement?

(MORGAN, 2017)

“Employee engagement is the emotional commitment the employee has to the organization and its goals.” (Kruse, 2012)

Mainly there are two types of IT organizations in the world, “Project-based IT organizations” and “Product based IT organizations”. Different between these organization is, Project based organization have various types of projects at a given time whereas product-based organizations focus on a single product at any given time. However, all these organizations are highly depending on their employees and their engagement. In comparison, Product-based companies are more towards employee engagement as they have long term goals where project-based companies maintain short term goals.

Why Employee Engagement?

Better engagement means better productivity.

IT organizations work on setting goals and they always focus on completing projects in a timely manner. Therefore, productivity is one of the most important factors, Proper employee engagement will help to share the knowledge hence it improves the productivity which in return increases the success factors on any given project or products. (Weinger, 2015)

Engaged employees have high retention ratio.

If employees are fully engaged in a company then they are less likely to quit or change their job. This is one of the most important things in an IT organization as almost all the IT organizations are depending on its senior resources and knowledge sharing. If the employee turnovers are high then the project risk is also high. This will also enhance the profitability of an organization (Weinger, 2015)

Engaged Employees improve creativity.

When an employee is fully engaged with an organization or a job then they will try to do the thing in the best way they can. And will do extra commitments towards the success of the given task as well as for the success of the organization. (Weinger, 2015)

Aforementioned are some of the key values of employee engagement and these values help in achieving the company’s goals without any distractions. Its organizations are highly relaid on employees and they need to enhance the employee the retention rate in order to become the leaders in a particular area.

Let’s build some arguments on who your organization value employee engagement what are the measures that have been taken so far to enhance the identified issues in this area.

References

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MORGAN, J., 2017. Talent Management & HR. [Online]
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Weinger, A., 2015. Double the Donation Logo. [Online]
Available at: https://doublethedonation.com/tips/blog/2015/09/why-employee-engagement-is-important/
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