Improving Employee Productivity Through Work Engagement
Author: Jalal Hanaysha, Year: 2015,
Introduction
Enhancing employees’ performance has many advantages to an organization, such as social development, higher returns, and economic growth. Further, high productivity makes a firm have a competitive advantage by improving quality and reducing prices. However, companies should try to consider workers’ engagement since it has a positive impact on performance. Despite several studies showing employee engagement having positive outcomes, only a few have empirical evidence to support such studies. Research by Hanaysha (2015) aims at testing the relationship between the employees’ involvement and performance in Malaysian higher education sectors.
Main Body
The main challenge most firms face nowadays is how to improve their employees’ performance. Evaluation of individual employee outcomes in a particular period measures the performance. A company’s success depends on staff performance; thus, the productivity of staff is essential to the organization. However, finding an effective method of assessing the employees’ productivity is a challenge. In addition, the employees’ performance is based on the time they spent working efficiently in an organization.
Employee engagement has become one of the significant priorities of most organizational executives. However, the engagement relies on workers’ perception, experience, and job environment. The realization of employees’ strengths and engagement levels leads to high performance. Organizational stakeholders and investors should put more resources on encouraging workforce involvement in the decision-making process to enhance performance. The quantitative study involved a sample population of 870 staff in public universities in Northern Malaysia. The study had three divisions: vigor, employee dedication, and absorption.
The study discovered that the engagement of workers and its dimensions showed a positive impact on the employees’ performance in universities. Dedication, vigor, and absorption had a positive effect on improving the workers’ performance, thus organizational productivity. Employers and firms should put more emphasis on workforce involvement and regular evaluation of employees’ progress for better organizational welfare. Work engagement leads to job satisfaction among most employees, who work hard to achieve the organization’s goals and objectives.
Conclusion
Work engagement has a positive effect on the overall performance of an organization. The involvement of employees in a firm leads to the realization of strengths among them, which helps them to use their knowledge and skills in reaching the company targets. However, this study focused on the educational sector; therefore, it opens a platform for finding the effect of work engagement in other organizations. Lastly, additional studies may examine other factors that lead to organizational performance.