Employee Engagement and Similar Constructs: the Exploration of Conceptual Nuances (II) Cover Image

Zaangażowanie pracownicze i podobne konstrukty: eksploracja niuansów konceptualnych (II)
Employee Engagement and Similar Constructs: the Exploration of Conceptual Nuances (II)

Author(s): Anna Wójcik-Karpacz
Subject(s): Micro-Economics, Individual Psychology, Organizational Psychology, Human Resources in Economy
Published by: Społeczna Akademia Nauk
Keywords: employee engagement; organizational engagement; job satisfaction; organizational commitment; job engagement;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this publication is to identify the constructs use to define employee engagement (defining their features and content). The article is of epistemological character. In the researches of scientific literature articles on the employee engagement the content analysis was used. The systematization of knowledge on constructs used to describe employees engagement allowed to distinguishing employee engagement from similar constructs: organizational commitment, organizational engagement, job satisfaction, job engagement. The message of this article is to promote a group agreement on the differences among these constructs as the way to limit the confusion in the communication of the research findings and of fragmentary accumulating of knowledge. This article also contains the proposals for future researches which fit in the need of key solutions of researchers, which is finding of a reliable and universal measure of employee engagement.

  • Issue Year: 18/2017
  • Issue No: 11.3
  • Page Range: 221-234
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish