Marvelous Intellectual Engagement In The Workplace

Shaw 2005 defined employee engagement as intellectual and emotional commitment to an organisation.

Intellectual engagement in the workplace. Treat employee engagement as a psychological state and an umbrella term to describe a broad area of people strategy and refer to narrower concepts such as work engagement or organisational commitment to be more specific when needed. According to Kingston Business School employee engagement at work is a mix of intellectual affective and social engagement thinking about the job feeling good about it and taking opportunities to discuss it with other people at work. Workplace experts have framed this in different ways.

Intellectual engagement thinking hard about the job and how to do it better Affective engagement feeling positively about doing a good job Social engagement actively taking opportunities to discuss work-related improvements with others at work This definition may be suitable for some organisations. Leadership means having a clear vision of. This measures the extent to which people are intellectually absorbed in their work or think hard about the work they are doing.

This hermeneutic research study focuses on Intellectual Engagement in the Workplace. Management needs to remember that engaged employees lead to productivity in the workplace and this creates better understanding of customers higher customer satisfaction and definitely an increase in sales and profit in the company. Engagement cant be imposed from above.

Employees engaging with their managers in particular. Components of Employee Engagement. Intellectual engagement is defined as personal psychological and cognitive investment in learning In reviewing the surveys results with teachers and principals we discovered perhaps not surprisingly that the significance of a relationship between intellectual engagement and learning lies deep within their tacit knowledge.

Employee engagement is a workplace approach resulting in the right conditions for all members of an organisation to give of their best each day committed to their organisations goals and values motivated to contribute to organisational success with an enhanced sense of their own well-being. In addition to this Stairs et al 2006 also defined employee engagement as the extent to which the employees thrive at work are committed to their employer and are motivated to do their best for the benefit of themselves and their organisation. Taking care of workers health safety and wellbeing should be the basis of any workplace engagement initiative.

It is an unravelling of situated life stories of people in their work to provide intentionality. Four individuals from different careers were interviewed and the conversations taped and transcribed. This will give an overall engagement score and a score for each of three facets of engagement as follows.