Advantages of Employee Engagement
Advantages
and Disadvantages of Employee Engagement
Employee engagement is a workplace approach designed to ensure that employees are committed and direct to your business goals and vision. By involving them in your business, you will motivate them to contribute to the success of the business and at the same time improve their sense of wellbeing.
Advantages of employee engagement.
Increased
productivity - Highly motivated staff a fully engaged in their duty. They have a clear vision of company goals.
Higher
retention and lower turnover rate - They love and care their job. Highly engaged employees retain in the company and always willing to serve the company and the company turnover rate is low.
Lower
absenteeism - Engaged staff are working with enthusiasm and absenteeism will low.
Commitment- Fully engaged staff are happier and have an increased desire and commitment to give their best to the company.
Better
customer satisfaction - Highly engaged and motivated staff are working in a happy environment and they serve the customer to the entire satisfaction of the customer.
Healthier employees - Engaged employees are care about their wellbeing and work in good physical and mental health condition
Better quality of work- The work quality of fully engaged employees are in high level of completion.
Stimulate innovation - When freedom given to employees to express their innovative ideas and implement them after analyzing the fact the employees get motivated and valued.
Better home life - Happy and satisfied employees are well balanced their work life and family life. They live a happy personal life.
Lower risk of burnout - Burnout is not an overnight problem. It can take days, weeks, months or even years, This will reflect as severe physical and mental fatigue, lack of interest in work feeling of incompetence and mor. Engaged employees are committed to work with positive vibes and no burnouts in their career.
(Leena AI, 2022)
(Leena AI,
2022)
Disadvantages of employee engagement.
Cost – Training procedure and purchase of new
software or infrastructure will cost to a new company
Time consuming – It cannot be done overnight. It
needs time, data analysis, regular supervision, and repetition of efforts.
Goal setting – Employee engagement should have
a purpose and future goals of the company. If it implemented without a vision
it will only be a cost.
Unreliable responses – When responding to
surveys some employees make false statement to please their managers. Then the
correct picture of the company cannot be taken with a survey.
Thank you! I'm glad you found the information about the advantages and disadvantages of employee engagement helpful. It's important to consider both the positive and potential negative aspects of employee engagement when implementing and managing engagement initiatives in the workplace. By being aware of these advantages and disadvantages, organizations can develop effective strategies to maximize the benefits of employee engagement while mitigating potential risks.
ReplyDeleteAdvantages are high in employee engagement. But few disadvantages also. Company should have the ability to identify both and minimize disadvantages and maximize advantages. It will help to increase company revenue, better customer service and employee satisfaction. Thank you for the comment.
DeleteDo you suggest any mechanism to measure the employee engagement levels
ReplyDeleteIt is not an easy task since all employees are not in the same standreds . Educational , cultural , ethnic differences are some barriers to measure employee engagement levels . But in Gallup 's ffindings he described there are several ways to measure employee engagement levels .
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