How Employee Engagement Impacts Employee, Team, and Business Success
Kahn (1990:694) defines employee engagement as _the harnessing of organization members„selves to their work roles; in engagement, people employ and express themselves physically, cognitively, and emotionally during role performances Most often employee engagement has been defined as emotional and intellectual commitment to the organization (Baumruk 2004, Richman 2006 and Shaw 2005). Truss et al (2006) define employee engagement simply as the passion for work, a psychological state which is seen to encompass the three dimensions of engagement discussed by Kahn (1990), and captures the common theme running through all these definitions. Harter, Schmidt, and Hayes (2002) define employee engagement as "the individual's involvement and satisfaction with as well as enthusiasm for work Employee engagement is the degree to which employees invest their cognitive, emotional, and behavioral energies toward positive organizational outcomes. Employee engagement is t...