Antecedents Of Employee Engagement In Selected Local NGOs In Ethiopia
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2018-09-25
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Employee engagement has become a potentially valuable concept of today’s management. It has
been in discussion for years; different reward plans and strategies were adopted over years to
make employees engaged. This research conceptualizes and develops on five antecedents of
employee engagement (Rewards & Recognition, Career development, supervision, job
content/nature of works and communication) and tests how these factors affect the
organizational engagement. The main objective of this study was to examine the key drivers of
engagement and to determine engagement level in selected local NGOs. The specific objectives
were to measure the level of work engagement, to determine relationships with their factors, and
to examine the extent to which the antecedent influence the engagement. An explanatory
research design with survey method is applied in this study. In order to fulfill the research
purpose, quantitative study was adopted. Questionnaires were designed using 5 pointlikert scale.
65 questionnaires were collected from employees of the selected local NGOs. The study used
both primary and secondary source of data. Data was analyzed using descriptive, correlational
and multiple regression analysis. The study result has implied that supervision (r=0.727
,p<0.01), reward & recognition (r=0.711 ,p<0.01) career development (r=0.707 ,p<0.01) are
found to have strong positive relationship with employees engagement, moderate relationship
obtained with communication (r=0.668, p<0.01), job content/nature of work (r=0.559, p<0.01).
Reward & Recognition, Career development, Supervision, Job content/nature of work and
Communication all have statistically significant positive relationship to Employee Engagement.
So, to improve employee engagement level and have engaged employees of the selected local
NGOs should do more on all the above five variables
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Reward, Career Development, Supervision