Employee Engagement – the Emergence of a New Construct? | Zendy

Richard McBain | Zendy

AI Assistant Blog Pricing

Home ZAIA Blog

Open Access

Employee Engagement – the Emergence of a New Construct?

Author(s) -

Richard McBain

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

henley manager update

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1745-7866

DOI - 10.1177/174578660601700403

Subject(s) - construct (python library) , employee engagement , vagueness , meaning (existential) , job satisfaction , employee resource groups , psychology , social psychology , sociology , public relations , employee research , epistemology , political science , computer science , artificial intelligence , philosophy , psychotherapist , programming language , fuzzy logic

Employee engagement is a useful recent concept in HRM: it is a composite construct that describes inter alia employees' commitment, job satisfaction and involvement. Increasingly, employee engagement has also come to be recognised as making a significant difference to performance at all levels within the company. But there still exists some vagueness about the meaning of the term: how exactly may employee engagement be defined? This article presents a genealogy of the new construct.

The content you want is available to Zendy users.

Already have an account? Click here to sign in.

Having issues? You can contact us here

Accelerating Research