{"id":1597,"date":"2019-10-11T17:21:55","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T17:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-humanresourcesmgmt\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=1597"},"modified":"2024-04-25T01:37:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T01:37:06","slug":"introduction-to-employee-engagement","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-humanresourcesmgmt\/chapter\/introduction-to-employee-engagement\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Employee Engagement","rendered":"Introduction to Employee Engagement"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>What you'll learn do to:\u00a0Describe employee engagement<\/h2>\r\nWhile the term \u201cemployee engagement\u201d may seem pretty straightforward, it is actually much more complex than it sounds. Employee engagement is extremely important in building a motivated and effective team\u2014engaged employees look forward to going to work and have a sense of their personal job performance and their role on the team. They work hard to meet goals and objectives, and also seek feedback to explore more efficient ways to perform their job tasks. These descriptors of employee engagement should sound really appealing to every employer. Who wouldn\u2019t want employees who are self motivated and driven? Every organization that wants an engaged team needs to work with their employees to achieve their buy-in and support.\r\n\r\nThis module will explore the ins and outs of employee engagement, including responsible parties for promoting employee engagement, how to motivate and measure engagement, and how both employee engagement and disengagement can impact an organization.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignnone wp-image-2457\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4056\/2019\/10\/13230510\/photo-1497366811353-6870744d04b2-e1573686330480.jpeg\" alt=\"Decorative image.\" width=\"1090\" height=\"379\" \/>","rendered":"<h2>What you&#8217;ll learn do to:\u00a0Describe employee engagement<\/h2>\n<p>While the term \u201cemployee engagement\u201d may seem pretty straightforward, it is actually much more complex than it sounds. Employee engagement is extremely important in building a motivated and effective team\u2014engaged employees look forward to going to work and have a sense of their personal job performance and their role on the team. They work hard to meet goals and objectives, and also seek feedback to explore more efficient ways to perform their job tasks. These descriptors of employee engagement should sound really appealing to every employer. Who wouldn\u2019t want employees who are self motivated and driven? Every organization that wants an engaged team needs to work with their employees to achieve their buy-in and support.<\/p>\n<p>This module will explore the ins and outs of employee engagement, including responsible parties for promoting employee engagement, how to motivate and measure engagement, and how both employee engagement and disengagement can impact an organization.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2457\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4056\/2019\/10\/13230510\/photo-1497366811353-6870744d04b2-e1573686330480.jpeg\" alt=\"Decorative image.\" width=\"1090\" height=\"379\" \/><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-1597\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Introduction to Employee Engagement. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Freedom Learning Group. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li><strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Nastuh Abootalebi. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Unsplash. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/eHD8Y1Znfpk\">https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/eHD8Y1Znfpk<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/about\/cc0\">CC0: No Rights Reserved<\/a><\/em>. <strong>License Terms<\/strong>: Unsplash License<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":17,"menu_order":2,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Introduction to Employee Engagement\",\"author\":\"Freedom Learning Group\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"\",\"author\":\"Nastuh Abootalebi\",\"organization\":\"Unsplash\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/eHD8Y1Znfpk\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc0\",\"license_terms\":\"Unsplash License\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"be9e8d66-237b-4227-ba92-f5859314cf15","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-1597","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":756,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-humanresourcesmgmt\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-humanresourcesmgmt\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-humanresourcesmgmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-humanresourcesmgmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-humanresourcesmgmt\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2459,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-humanresourcesmgmt\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1597\/revisions\/2459"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-humanresourcesmgmt\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/756"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-humanresourcesmgmt\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1597\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-humanresourcesmgmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-humanresourcesmgmt\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-humanresourcesmgmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-humanresourcesmgmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}