Employee Engagement

This opinion paper explores how IES's research has defined engagement, created an engagement measure and provided an engagement diagnostic tool. It identifies the factors that drive engagement and provides general lessons about how to manage employee engagement in your organisation.

Raising engagement levels, and maintaining them, takes time, effort, commitment and investment – it is not for the half-hearted. A ‘one size fits all’ approach is unlikely to yield the required results; engagement levels and drivers vary depending on the organisation, the person and the job.

This opinion paper explores how IES’s research has defined engagement, created an engagement measure and provided an engagement diagnostic tool. It identifies the factors that drive engagement and provides general lessons about how to manage employee engagement in your organisation.