Effectiveness of employee engagement in organizations: An overview

Employee engagement (EE) is a highly admired and vast topic having various shades and shadows, and it has been studied exclusively from a quantitative, survey based approach, both in academics as well as in industrial research. The present study therefore aims to provide a snapshot or an overview of engagement in a way that encompasses all the key findings in both academic research and HR practitioners. This paper offers a novel methodology where content analysis approach is used to provide a snap shot of the various findings of the papers on employee engagement that weaves together the researcher's personal and participants ’experiences to illuminate the phenomenon. This paper in short reviews existing literature on employee engagement from the most recent research, showing various variables/drivers in both public and private sector organisations. The findings are jotted down for the ease and study of the future researchers. In this paper the researchers have tried to explore the rationale of employee engagement practices. By analyzing the literature one can easily understand that along with demographic factors psychological as well as emotional factors plays vital role in employee engagement as they all are interdependent on each other.