Employee Engagement- A Key to Employee Well Beinga Conceptual Study

Abstract

Today's workforce is dynamic in nature and is characterized by work pressures ,time deadlines and the overarching need for competitive advantage can be got through a stable workforce is irrefutable. For the past 2.5 decades, vigorous Employee Engagement (EE) strategies have been depicted as a success mantra in the workplace. In recent years, there has been a weight of evidence suggesting that EE has a significantly positive impact on productivity and performance as well as individual well-being, and a significantly negative impact on turnover and absenteeism from the workplace. Understanding the prominence of employee well-being, robust managerial practices are being crafted by researchers and practitioners alike. This paper entails the role of engagement in bringing about employee wellbeing. It is in this context that this paper explains the significant role engagement plays in bringing about employee well-being. This paper consolidates the research activities of EE in three categories namely introduction to EE, theories and models of engagement, engagement and well-being; further reinforces the need of a robust engagement strategy with the explicit goal of increasing employee well-being.