Optimizing Organizational Performance through Employee Engagement. Powerful Lessons in Work life Balance

      Аннотация: Employee engagement is being positively present during the work performance, by willingly contributing intellectual effort and experiencing positive emotions and meaningful connections to others. Actively engaged employees, are known to perform better than those who are not engaged and thus increased productivity in the workplace. The key drivers of employee engagement are work place policies, supervisor support, co-worker support and corporate culture. These variables if well managed create a good work life balance, which is a positive and significant predictor of employee engagement. Therefore work?life balance is a significant area that an employer should give attention to, in order to increase employee engagement and thus high performance and productivity in the workforce. Employers need to promote a culture of engagement, through engagement awareness training for all levels of supervision, explain the importance of engagement to managers and provide worker involvement programmes to facilitate engagement.

Ключевые слова: corporate culture, corporate policy, Employee Engagement, Supervisor support, work life balance, Co-worker support, Organizational Performance