Title: The influence of personal and organisational characteristics on employee engagement and performance

Authors: Swati Dhir; Archana Shukla

Addresses: IMI New Delhi, B-10, Qutub Institutional Area, Tara Crescent, New Delhi – 110016, India ' Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, Noida Campus. B-1, Sector-62, Institutional Area, Noida, Uttar Pradesh 201307, India

Abstract: The paper explores the effect of demographic variables on employee engagement and their performance. The linkage of personal demographic variables as gender, education, age, management level of working managers, tenure as well as organisational demographics as organisational size, structural ownership with employee engagement and work role performance confirms the importance of these variables. The study is conducted on 701 working managers in India from different industries through survey method. The results include some interesting findings will help to better understand the engagement process. The significant variables are analysed further through the mean comparison method and cross tabulation of demographic variables.

Keywords: employee engagement; demographic variables; performance.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMCP.2018.092321

International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy, 2018 Vol.11 No.2, pp.117 - 131

Accepted: 22 Jan 2018
Published online: 14 Jun 2018 *

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