Drivers Of Employee Engagement

Abstract

The current study titled Drivers of Employee Engagement: Developing a model for employees newlineof IT Industry in Bangalore attempted to validate an Employee Engagement Model for newlineemployees of the IT industry in Bangalore region. The model proposed that job satisfaction, newlinepsychological empowerment, interpersonal relationship and Feeling of Being Valued and newlineInvolved by the employees, has a positive relationship with employee engagement among IT newlineindustry employees. Also, the Feeling of Being Valued and Involved plays a mediating role in newlinethe relationship between Job Satisfaction, Psychological empowerment, Interpersonal newlineRelationship, and Employee Engagement. The model also examines the gender difference in newlineengagement levels of the employees. The study was conducted among 304 IT employees from newlineMNC s in Bangalore region. The duration of experience considered for sample collection was 2- newline8 years with age limits being 24-30 years. Also, employees from the day and UK shift were only newlineconsidered. Spearman s Correlation, Mann Whitney U test, and Logistic regression were utilized newlineusing SPSS Version 22 for data analysis. The results indicated a significant positive correlation newlinebetween the independent and dependent variables. The logistic regression results also show that newlinejob satisfaction, interpersonal relationships and Feeling of Being Valued and Involved to be newlinesignificant predictors of Employee Engagement. However, Psychological empowerment was not newlinefound to be a significant predictor of employee engagement. Feeling of Being Valued and newlineInvolved does not have a mediation effect in the relationship of Job Satisfaction, Psychological newlineEmpowerment and Interpersonal Need with Employee Engagement among IT industry newlineemployees . There was no gender difference in the engagement levels of the employees. newline