Drivers of employee engagement - A study in Indian manufacturing sector

Employee Engagement is a buzzword and a challenge for the human resource department of almost all the organizations. An engaged employee is a person who is fully involved in, and enthusiastic about his or her work, thus willing to invest his/her talent for the fullfillment of organisations goal. It is the level of commitment and involvement an employee has towards their organization and its values. In short, it is a positive attitude and a strong emotional bond held by the employees towards the organization and its values which futher develops into organisation citizenship behaviour. It is due to this that measuring the engagement levels of the employees has become important for the organizations. With the above backdrop this paper focuses on conceptualising employee engagement with drivers of employee engagement and further highlights the relative importance of these drivers in terms of employee engagement.