"Broadening the Foci of Employee Engagement: Definitions, Antecedents, and Outcomes"

Abstract

Employee engagement is frequently defined as ‘work engagement’ focusing on how engaged an individual employee is with his or her job. This symposium brings together six papers that argue that, although work engagement is important, there are other types of employee engagement which are less widely research, including organization, team, and stakeholder engagement. Antecedents and outcomes of such constructs are explored. Additionally, much of the research on employee engagement to date has been largely described from a universal perspective – less attention has been paid to the country context in which data have been collected. Definitions, antecedents and consequences of engagement may however vary across cultural contexts. This symposium brings together studies of employee engagement from a range of cultural contexts: the UK, Australia, the Netherlands, Italy, and China. Leader-member Exchange and Engagement for Italian Nurses Presenter: Elisabetta Trinchero; Bocconi U. Presenter: Elena Berselli; Bocconi U. Presenter: Elio Borgonovi; Bocconi U. Understanding Engagement: How Team Engagement Drives Performance Presenter: Peter Michael Hart; Deakin U. Presenter: Alexandra Sutherland; Deakin U. Presenter: James B L Tan; Insight SRC Presenter: Shi Shi Fisher; Deakin U. Contextual Influences on Employee Work Engagement Presenter: Christina Sue-Chan; City U. of Hong Kong Managing Work in the Social Enterprise Presenter: Rita Bissola; U. Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Presenter: Barbara Imperatori; U. Cattolica del Sacro Cuore An Empirical Examination of the Distinctiveness of Work and Organization Employee Engagement Presenter: Elaine Farndale; Pennsylvania State U. Presenter: Susanne Beijer; Tilburg U. Presenter: Marc Van Veldhoven; Tilburg U. Presenter: Veronica Hope Hailey; City U. London Presenter: Clare Kelliher; Cranfield U.