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Abstract
Employee engagement is a vast construct that touches almost all parts of human resource management. If every part of human resources is not addressed in an appropriate manner, employees fail to fully engage themselves in their job in response to such kind of mismanagement. Engaged employees are emotionally attached to their organization and highly involved in their job with a great enthusiasm for the success of their employer, going an extra mile beyond the employment contractual agreement. The objective of the project is to study the level of employee engagement in SMEs in Chennai Industrial Estate and the study has been carried out with a sample size of 148 respondents. The researcher used descriptive research design is to find out the fact of respondents attitude and opinion about employee engagement. This study adopted a descriptive research design and employed a simple random sampling. Primary data were collected from respondents using structured questionnaires. The data were analysed descriptively and presented through Simple percentage method; Chi-square method and ANOVA method were used to analyse data using SPSS and MS Excel. Employee engagement is stronger predictor of positive organizational performance clearly showing the two-way relationship between employer and employee compared to the three earlier constructs: job satisfaction, employee motivation and organizational citizenship behaviour. By this, it concludes that employee engagement in the organization is at fair level. The research findings can be used by the manufacturing industry to that organizations should empower their workforce and adopt fair reward system as such will ensure sustainability in the performance of the workforce
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Copyright © 2024 Suresh K. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.
