The employee engagement has emerged as a pivotal business driver for organizational success. High level of engagement in domestic and global firms is supposed to have multiple enriching effects on an organization. Studies have highlighted the importance of both organizational and individual factors in ensuring highly engaged employees. The present paper explores the individual differs across fo...

MOVING ENGAGEMENT RESEARCH TO A HIGHER LEVEL: THE IMPACT OFUNIT-LEVEL ENGAGEMENT ON BUSINESS METRIC OUTCOMESbyTARA K. McCLUREAugust 2013Advisor: Dr. Boris BaltesMajor: Psychology (Industrial-Organizational)Degree: Doctor of PhilosophyAlthough engagement has been slow to take hold within the academicliterature, it has quickly become a hot topic within the ...

Background: Patient-engagement strategies are increasingly recognized for enriching traditional medical care and improving population health. Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) may be well positioned to leverage multi-sector organizational partnerships to improve the reach of their patient-engagement strategies, particularly given incentives to meet cost, quality and population health goals....

This article explores the impact of organizational attributes on client engagement within substance abuse treatment. Previous research has identified organizational features, including small size, accreditation, and workplace practices, that impact client engagement (K. M. Broome, P. M. Flynn, D. K. Knight, & D. D. Simpson, 2007). This study sought to explore how aspects of the work environment...

background: organizational climate is one of the effective factors in organizational commitment. organizational climate affects organizational staff behaviors. the aim of current study was to assess the relation between organizational climate components with organizational commitment components among nurses in selected hospitals of tums in 2011.   methods: this study was cross - sectional surve...

In four studies we examine whether and why respectfully engaging with other organizational members can augment creativity for individuals and teams. We develop and test a model in which respectful engagement among organizational members facilitates relational information processing, which in turn results in enhanced creative behaviors. We found a similar pattern across all four studies – respec...

Previous research suggested that Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is positively related to organization’s attractiveness to potential employees. This paper tries to explore the effective dimensions of CSR on employee engagement and the mediating factors that lay between the two constructs. The author proposes that CSR has a direct impact on employee engagement, and that perceived organizat...

Employee engagement (EE) has been shown to have important implications for the success of organizations. Most researchers have discussed employee engagement in terms of factors in a top-down, hierarchical model of the organization. However, there may also be contributing factors from an employee’s intra-organizational social network. (IOSN). In this paper, we show that an employee’s social netw...