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  Employee engagement and leadership  According to research, leadership style substantially influences employee engagement and the work environment. Employee engagement and work environment impact the performance of the employees significantly. The result of the study also shows that leadership style can not directly affect the employees' performance because leadership style is an interaction between top management and the employees. It needs an intermediate variable in increasing the performance of employees (Ariussanto, Tarigan, Sitepu and Singh, 2020). As the use of workplace understanding economies increases and emerging motivational state variables such as employee engagement become more widely used, current leadership frameworks are changing attitude and practice. Further, while shifts in workplace dynamics have emerged in preparation for some time, scholars are now calling for a new leadership perspective (Shuck and Herd, 2012).  there are three main drivers when i...
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  Employee engagement methods   It is important to win the "war for talent" by winning the heart of the employees as both the workforce and the workplace keeps evolving continuously, and without establishing justice, trust, perception and risks, employees will not be able to understand the role that they were expected to play (Dicke, Holwerda and Kontakos, 2007).  According to Shaw (2005) ‘translating employee potential into employee performance and business success. in other means, employee perform expected to change in order utilize tools in the armoury of internal communication professionals(Storey, Ulrich, Welbourne and Wright, 2016).   There are numerous ways to get engage with origination employees, some of the methods can be shown as follows, Make effective communication a priority Listen to your employees Develop relationships based on trust Review reward and recognition systems Provide learning and development opportunities Build a cultur...
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  Emotional intelligence for employee engagement.   Emotional intelligence is a recent concept, and there is no measure of how much emotional intelligence that person needs to lead a positive lifestyle, however, according to the data, it has been shown that emotional intelligence plays a major part in a persons life and further an there are instances that emotional intelligence becomes more powerful than the IQ (Goleman, 1996). Nowadays, emotional intelligence is a major requirement as due to the digitalized world, most people stay behind a computer and communication through digitalized platforms rather than having face to face conversations which often cause broken discussions, cryptic voicemails, and abbreviated text messages, and leads to miscommunications (Bradberry and Greaves, 2009).   It is being said that Leadership and relationships have a significant role when it comes to organisational success, Further according to a study single most important factor ...
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  Employee engagement in remote working   After the pandemic, most organizations started to move toward the remote working modes as it provided a more secure way to run the organizational operations without interruptions. However, even before the pandemic considering the last decade, there was an 80% increase in remote working employees as many organisations realized that remote employees are more productive than those who work in traditional office environments apart from the same remote working has drastically decreased the unnecessary cost and provided the opportunity to hire valuable staff members irrespective of the distance (Lee, 2018). Work from home is not an alien concept, It has been in the business world since 1970; during this period, there was an oil crisis that made people pursue work from home (Yadav, 2020).   Figure 01   (Agovino, 2021)     employees who are working remotely tend to get depressed and feel alienated, which...
  Path to Successful Employee Engagement   Employee engagement is based on two significant factors; it can be described as two sides of a coin; on the one hand, it provides opportunities for the employees and the other hand, it is a challenge; therefore employee engagement must be developed and nurtured under a mutual understanding among the employer and employees (Rana and Chopra, 2019). “a series of actions and steps that require the input and involvement of organizational members and consistent, continuous, and clear communications.” Communication seems to be paramount to both concepts and employee involvement requires information flow, trust, and arguably effective problem solving” (Swarnalatha and Prasanna, 2013)   To build a strong employee engagement as the initial step, it is necessary to build a wide engagement strategy that includes a survey as it is important to get insights and suggestions from the employee's leadership and other stakeholders as it can...
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  Employee motivation for better engagement.   Employee retention and engagement plays a critical role when it comes to maintaining a highly productive workforce; therefore, it is known that having employees with good attitudes is not enough as there is no use for these employees if an organisation can not properly use them with giving necessary motivation in order to retain them (Aguenza and Som, 2021) .According to the studies, it is possible to accept high performance by providing high employee engagement, high job motivation, along with high job satisfaction (Nugroho, 2019) .   To enhance the employee performance, there are major steps that organizations take into consideration; firstly it is important to get the employee involved in the whole working process, then it is necessary to identify the factors that lead to success, afterwards, there should be established working standard and regulation and finally, and most importantly motivate and supervising th...
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  Employee engagement in pandemic   Employee engagement has been in the discussion for the past two decades; however, due to the covid-19 pandemic, the need for employee engagement was drastically increased as organisations were struggling to keep the businesses open, and the work environment has changed in a manner that no one predicted; therefore, the pandemic has brought many challenges for the organisations as the workforce was having fears about the job security, bonuses, performance and appraisals and many more issues which led to lower employee engagement (Kumar, 2021). The Coronavirus  (COVID-19) has made organizations promote remote working for most employees as most countries request citizens to stay at home to minimize the spread of the virus due to the same it thas affected almost every industry and made work from home concept more popular (Shareena and Shahid, 2020).   Employee engagement has always been a challenge to organizations; the pandemic...