Relationship between employee engagement factors and employee engagement at SBN industries Sdn. Bhd.

Abstract

Employee engagements is very important to organizations as it may attract the employees to stay, enhance performed and fulfill their satisfaction. It is important to conduct this study and beneficial for the organization, respondents and future research. This study was aimed to investigate the relationship between employee engagement factors (basic needs, management support, teamwork and growth) affect employee engagement (vigor, dedication and absorption). As for the first objective, the study aimed to find the most dominant factors of employee engagement through the highest mean collected. Besides that, the differences between the genders, marital status and length of working experiences with the employee engagement were indentified through the T-test and analysis of variance (ANOVA). Lastly, the study identified the relationship between factors employee engagement and employee engagement through the method of Pearson Correlation. This study use quantitative methods and questionnaire has been used based on the instruments of Gallup Q12 and Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES-9). The study involved 135 respondents from SBN Industries Sdn. Bhd. Johor through the distribution of questionnaire. The result shows that basic need was the main factors affect employee engagement followed by management support, teamwork and growth. There are no significance value between genders and employee engagement. The significant value is seen between marital status and length off working experiences with the vigorous and dedication. Lastly, there are identification of the relationship between factors of employee engagement and employee engagement.