Understanding Employee Engagement: by Michael Koscec - Entec Corporation - Friday, December 05 2008
The Gallup organization has placed the term employee engagement on the map. There contribution to understanding the underlining factors of employee motivation has been a significant contribution. There is however, an important piece missing in Gallup’s work. There are two parts to employee engagement:
1. the employee and their own unique psychological make up
2. the employer and their ability to create the conditions that will promote employee engagement.
Gallup’s work does not fully address the first part. A the reader may be aware, Entec Corporation assembled an eclectic team of experts in strategic management, organizational development, leadership, behavioral psychology and psychiatry who were asked to develop a model of employee engagement. They determined that there were five factors that are primary drivers of employee engagement:
