Impact of Employee Engagement on Career Development A Study in Manufacturing Industries

Abstract

Employee engagement is important today because it contributes in the achievement of organizational objectives. Employee engagement is the result when employees are treated well and rewarded. Opportunity for development, advancement and participation also help employees become engaged. The study explores meaningful relationship between employee engagement and one of the important developmental measure career development. Career development emphasizes holding a sequence of positions during a career by an individual. They can be pursued internally with the same employer or externally among various employers. This research is specifically undertaken in context of the manufacturing organizations. newlineDuring the last several years, many studies have been carried out on employee engagement in India by academicians. The studies have so far covered many factors of engagement leaving aside the process outcomes like career development. Therefore, the need for the present study is to explore linkages of employee engagement to career development. newlineThe coverage of the study includes studying nature of employee engagement and career development and relationship between the two, including the causal relationship. Some demographic variables like experience, age, qualification, gender and income effects on the relationship have been studied. One of the basic objectives is to explore predictive capacity of independent variables for future actions in this field. The objectives of the research are as follows; newlinea. To measure the relationship between employee engagement and career development. newlinev newlineb. To find evidence about the predictive effect of employee engagement on career development. newlinec. To assess if demographic variables such as age, experience, income, qualification and gender act as a moderator on the relationship between employee engagement and career development. newlined. To determine the effect of age, experience, income, qualification and gender on employee engagement predictor. newlinee. To determine the effect of age, experience, income