A study of employee engagement in information technology sector in India.

Employee engagement has emerged as the main deriver for organizational success. And organizations are increasingly recognizing its importance in organizations success. This paper attempts to measure the level of employee engagement in Information Technology sector in India. Further the paper also aims to investigate the impact of demographic variables such as gender, age and years of professional experience on the level of employee engagement in IT sector. Data has been collected by from five Indian IT companies by using stratified random sampling. The result of the study showed that average level of employee engagement of the 100 respondents from five companies in Indian IT sector is higher than the neutral value and hence favorable. The result also showed that there is no significance difference in the level of employee engagement across gender, age and years of experience of employees. Further it is also found that employees in Indian IT sector believe that Recognition, praise and reward is the factor that motivates them to remain committed at work and the least important factor is monetary benefits.