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Employee engagement of managerial staff in hospitals - An Indian pilot study

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  • J, Swaminathan
  • S, Aramvalarthan

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Employee engagement is a state of emotional and intellectual involvement that employees have in an organization. An engaged employee is aware of business context, and works with colleagues to improve performance within the job for the benefit of the organization. It is a positive attitude held by the employees towards the organization and its values. This study focused on how employee engagement is an antecedent of job involvement and what should the management of hospitals do to make their managers engaged. This study conducted was to find out the levels of employee engagement, the drivers of it, which includes Employee Empowerment, Communication, Team Work, Training and Development,Recognition, Leadership Quality, and Work Life Balance to analyze their impact and to offer suggestions to improve the same. The study adopted non-probability sampling using systematic method to collect primary data. The samples of the study constituted 100 managerial staff from various hospitals in Nagapattinam District, Tamil Nadu, India. Anova,Chi square and Paired t test were employed in the analysis of data. The results of the study indicated that the Employee Engagement of Managerial Staff in Hospitals of Nagapattinam District is moderate and Recognition helps to attain Employee Engagement.. The hospitals should concentrate on dimensions like Recognition and Team work to improve Employee Engagement of the hospitals.

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  • J, Swaminathan & S, Aramvalarthan, 2013. "Employee engagement of managerial staff in hospitals - An Indian pilot study," MPRA Paper 47522, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    • Handle: RePEc:pra:mprapa:47522
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    1. Swaminathan J., 2010. "Essential Components of Employee Engagement - A Study with Reference to TNSTC, Kumbakonam," Advances In Management, Advances in Management, vol. 3(12), December.
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    1. Lalatendu Kesari Jena & Pratishtha Bhattacharyya & Sajeet Pradhan, 2017. "Employee Engagement and Affective Organizational Commitment: Mediating Role of Employee Voice among Indian Service Sector Employees," Vision, , vol. 21(4), pages 356-366, December.

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    Keywords

    Employee empowerment; Team work; Recognition; Communication; Work life Balance;
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    • I19 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Other

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