3. Employee Engagement - Creating a work environment where employees are enthusiastic about and involved in their work and the organization as a whole. 4. Performance Management - Helping employees meet and exceed the results and outcomes they are expected to contribute to the organization. 5. nature and practical relevance of work engagement, while distinguishing it from other work-related affective states. The experience of energy is perhaps the most critical defining feature of work engagement, and this energy is associated with positive emotional experiences. Scholars studyingworkengagement(e.g.Macey&Schneider,2008) UnderstandingWorkEngagement The WorkEngagementProfile measures key factors that keep you engaged in your work. In general terms, this engagement involves the energy and thought you put into your work. By work, we mean both the activities you perform and their intended pur - pose. When you are engaged in your work, you take steps to ensure that your activities 7 Š̸Ãî Oö½}E5×Ù8ŠßgÞ ¦VcN¿ iü ö-ëê)¤ì Iû>ð~iŸº[ϸ µ-ð|NÙZ3>y…bŸGqTÌ´xæþ(×â({^â‚ZX›õŒ®²ë˜~Ê"ÐÀã‡ä#"Œÿ`|S5^¨]®÷ ' á‹·µ`"Oé*?Q¦¬_Gñ =˜ä ÓÝt« Ž¦ßj| ï .n Ø¥ªÂ- =a õ *‡FñtˆpsAßs¯ Q[ Aâ o/Þ‚ql™| ´JAòTþ¡S,> ¸ ¼§ü¢ Í ?QÍÜO—ïAl¹d Jݳ³j æ~ˆ±R Z.aK? The concept of work engagement is relevant for organisations for various reasons. Firstly, work engagement is related to job satisfaction, organisational commitment and low turnover intention (May et al. 2004; Schaufeli & Bakker 2004). Secondly, work engagement is related to personal initiative and learning (Sonnentag 2003). Comparison of the Job Engagement Scale and the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale The study of employee engagement (i.e., the full investment of oneself into work) has been justified by noted comparisons to disengagement or the lack of engagement. For example, in the applied arena, engaged employees have been shown to have lower rates of absenteeism (- R. Borst, P. Kruyen, C. Lako. Political Science. 2017. Work engagement refers to an active energetic state of mind that is characterized by vigor, dedication, and absorption. Despite practitioner's attention for work engagement, few public administration…. 53. PDF. View 1 excerpt, cites background. work engagement is that of Schaufeli and Bakker (2004) who define it as an active, positive work related state that is characterised by vigour, dedication and absorption. Therefore an engaged employee is not only interested in their work but they will feel involved in it and have a psychological energy to undertake it. The word 'state' also Work engagement is of extreme importance in the modern era. It is of high concern for many economic support organizations and for this reason, academic phenomenon is over stressed equally among the academic and practitioners. Kahn (1990) opines work engagement as a condition where the employees of the organization comes up with feel of define engagement differently, some common themes emerge. These themes include These themes include employees' satisfaction with their work and pride in their employer, the extent to organization must be part of everyday administrative work. When managers select and determine the factors which influence employee engagement, they can have an effective human resources practices in order to enhance employee engagement (Bandura & Lyons, 2017). factorial invariance of the work engagement construct across levels of analysis. The second is to determine the antecedents and consequences of engagement at the diffe