Employee Engagement
Employee Engagement has been quite a buzz activity and heavily marketed by the Human Resources Consulting firms. An engaged employee is a person who is actively involved in, demonstrate great energy about his or her work. It is about how an employee commit to someone or something in there organization, how hard they work, how long they stay as a result of their commitment, investing efforts towards achieving job and tasks. It is also about the feeling empowerment, positive affectivity, the feeling of pride. An Engaged Employee puts that an extra efforts/voluntary efforts to do something better than expected, expands his role and broaden his areas of expertise.
Employee Engagement could be described as a construct of three below components. * Trait Engagement - Positive view of life * State Engagement – Feeling of energy, absorption * Behavioral Engagement – Extra role behavior
Employee engagement is a top priority and is an asset and could be a key competitive advantage in this global ever changing nature of work.
Many companies has understood the reasons for making talent stick and have employee engaged with more compensation, benefits and more fun events. Many studies has proven that opportunities for career advancement, learning opportunities and mentoring & coaching tend to be factors that talent really looks for in an organization. This has been true irrespective of the workforce generation. Below tree summarizes it all.

One of the most important factor is that most of the employees don't have clear understanding of their roles and responsibilities, the skills/knowledge and training need to do the better and what all it takes to move to higher level of performance and move to desired level. Below are few approaches to increase Employee Engagement.

* Career: Providing challenging and meaningful work with