Practices for Engaging the 21st Century Workforce: Challenges of Talent Management in a Changing Workplace

5. Leveraging What We Know: An Employee Engagement Framework

Armed with a true measure of engagement, you can now describe the drivers, conditions, and outcomes of engagement. By separating these components of engagement, organizations can assess how different management practices and programs, and different work environments, impact employee engagement and important organizational outcomes. This chapter integrates a large body of cutting-edge research on engagement into a strategic framework. This framework demonstrates the entire engagement process: Human Resource (HR) systems—drivers of engagement—conditions of engagement—employee engagement—behavioral outcomes—strategic outcomes—financial outcomes, and the moderating effect of trait engagement, ...