Engagement at the time of recruitment

Engagement at the time of recruitment

Ideally Engagement must start at the time of recruitment, when calling for candidates for a particular job, the advertisements must outline the attractive features such as challenging work assignments, highly skilled team environment, and minimal supervision. Applicants will be motivated by these features and act in response. At the interview the management should communicate the role and the expectations clearly and not keep space for ambiguities. The candidate should be encouraged to communicate their concerns and raise queries and management in return to be flexible in order to suite each and every requirement of the employee. A women candidate could be single parent etc, where flexible working hours, family health benefits and onsite day care center to be introduced and encourage work life balance for a sustainable and a long lasting relationship. Further in selecting the right individual for the right job with few performance problems (Vance, 2006) Recruit candidates who are willing to be engaged which increase engagement and organizational performance. As CEO of the UK’s Happy Pvt Ltd, which had been awarded by the Great Place to Work Institute writes, recruit for the candidates attitude and then train for skills (Stewart, 2012).

List of References


Vance, R., J. (2006) Employee engagement & commitment: A Guide to understanding, measuring and increasing engagement in your organization (SHRM Foundation).

Stewart, H. (2012) The Happy Manifesto – Make Your Organization a Great Place to Work-Now (Foreword by professor Julion Birkshaw of London Business School)


Comments

  1. Essential Tools for HR Department by -Vianlo-November 19, 2019 at 7:03 PM

    Hi Lakshmi, Moving on to more statistical aspect of engagement, Towers Perrin (2007) found that organisations with the highest percentage of engaged employees increased their operating income by 19 per cent and their earnings per share by 28 per cent year‐to‐year. Highly engaging organisational cultures may also have an attractive, A review of current thinking employer brand, being an employer of choice which attracts and retains the best talent (eg Martin and Hetrick, 2006)




    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Lakshmi Ratnajothy November 20, 2019 at 2:04 PM

      Hi, employee engagement leads to organizational success which was revealed from a survey conducted by Gallup (2006a) examining 23,910 business units and compared top quartile and bottom quartile financial performance with engagement scores. They found that: Those with engagement scores in the bottom quartile averaged 31–51 per cent more employee turnover, 51 per cent more inventory shrinkage and 62 per cent more
      accidents. Those with engagement scores in the top quartile averaged 12 per cent higher customer advocacy, 18 per cent higher productivity and 12 per cent higher profitability(Armstrong, 2010)

      Delete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Employee Engagement: Way forward for a successful Organization

Image
Employee Engagement: Way forward for a successful O rganization   Definition of Employee Engagement   Employee engagement or employee relation is a two-way process where the employer and employee are responsible for the success of the organization. Employee engagement could be defined as an emotional attachment towards the organization, highly involved in the work with enthusiasm for the success of the Organization (Kompaso & Sridevi, 2010). In engagement an employee, “is going extra mile beyond the employment contractual agreement” to fulfil the assigned job, which is discretionary behaviour and part of psychological contract ( Purcell et al, 2003) .  I ngredients of job engagement as per Armstrong (2010) a re motivation, commitment & organizational citizenship behaviour. Therefore, employee engagement is a blend of all three ingredients.   An engaged employee will be loyal in attitude, will go beyond their minimum expectations to complet...
Read more

Factors affecting employee engagement; Effective Communication and feedback

Image
Effective Communication and feedback Effective communication plays a significant role in  employee   engagement (Osborne et al, 2017).  A two-way communication between the employer and employee is important ( IQN, 2017).  Employer should clearly communicate their expectations, organizational goals and targets to their employees and employees in return should be given a chance to report their grievances and concerns. This employee voice to be heard by the management and this makes the organization  “an employer of choice” (Armstrong, 2010).  O rganizations should look for leaders that can both communicate the organization’s vision and secure employees’ support in achieving organizational goals (Osborne et al, 2017) and employees to be given a chance to open up without any repercussions. The best way to gain employee views are the anonymous surveys in which people feel completely safe to speak their minds.  Its proven that majority o f people ope...
Read more

Employee Engagement: Way forward for a successful Organization ; Definition of Employee Engagement

Employee Engagement: Way forward for a successful  O rganization   Definition of Employee Engagement   Employee engagement or employee relation is a two-way process where the employer and employee are responsible for the success of the organization. Employee engagement could be defined as an emotional attachment towards the organization, highly involved in the work with enthusiasm for the success of the Organization (Kompaso & Sridevi, 2010). In engagement an employee, “is  going extra mile beyond the employment contractual agreement” to fulfill the assigned job, which is discretionary behaviour and part of psychological contract ( Purcell et al, 2003) .  I ngredients of job engagement as per Armstrong (2010) a re motivation, commitment & organizational citizenship behaviour. Therefore, employee engagement is a blend of all three ingredients.   An engaged employee will be loyal in attitude, will go beyond their minimum expectatio...
Read more