Employee Commitment: A Giant Leap in Employee Engagement

Abstract

This paper explores how organizations are intertwined with challenges put forth by todays modern workforce who is highly adventurous and passionate & the means adopted by the organizations to tackle the hurdles surrounding employee loyalty towards the organization and facilitate high employee commitment. This paper also helps the reader understand the evolution of the concept of employee engagement to employee commitment, through birds-eye view of an organization. The main purpose is to understand how employee commitment binds an employee to his/her organization. Through secondary research, the foundation of this paper has been laid. The opinions expressed in this paper are based on review of various academic research papers and surveys along with crucial data obtained from the internet. Through the observations made from secondary and primary data, it can be established that employee engagement plays a crucial role in ensuring employees commitment. Employee engagement builds a healthy relationship between the employer and the employee. High employee commitment leads to organizations becoming more profitable. This paper can also help determine the future trends of employee engagement in the workplace. It gives a snapshot of what companies are doing right and what is it that will help them maintain their position and help them attract and retain quality talent now and in future.

Keywords: Employees, Employee commitment, Employee engagement, Organization, Workforce

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