Designing an organizational engagement model using structural equation modeling: case study of National Iranian Oil Company

Vahideh Delbahari,Iraj Soltani,Akbar Etebarian Khorasgani

doi:10.21511/ppm.17(3).2019.01

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https://doi.org/10.21511/ppm.17(3).2019.01

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Abstract

Today’s organizations need energetic and engaged employees, those who are interested in their jobs. Generally, the engaged ones love their job and do their job tasks well. If there is no engagement in the organizations, the organization is encountered with serious problems in this ground. This study aims to design engagement assessment model in the organizations and its applied purpose is creating new theoretical basics in the maturity of engagement in the organization and this helps the organizations for better perception and consistency of organizational goals with the goals of employees. The employees of the National Iranian Oil Company constituted the population for this research. The National Iranian Oil Company was selected as the context, because employee engagement has emerged as a critical problem confronting this sector. 356 employees of this company were selected by simple random sampling method and data were collected using a questionnaire. The researcher attempts to answer the question how we can design an engagement assessment model in the organizations. The different dimensions of engagement are identified at individual and organizational levels and then based on the findings, the employees are classified based on the individual and organizational engagement and the results of this study can help the researchers for better recognition of this internal variable and this helps the better understanding of researchers to use it.

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Today, one of the important issues of human life is engagement in the affairs and progress of people in the communities
This study focused on the effect of this type of engagement among the employees of Jihad leadership on the work engagement of newly em- Keshavarzi organization and education departployed in job autonomy
The National Iranian Oil Company was selected as the context, because employee engagement has emerged as a critical problem

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One of the important issues of human life is engagement in the affairs and progress of people in the communities. One of the most important duties of managers in the organizations is establishing engagement in the employees and providing their development to fulfill the organization goals. Each organization, by assessing the engagement in different fields and its main mission, can find how capable it is and whether organizational engagement is achieved or not. Engagement is considered as a priority among the managing directors, but in recent years, the organizations are encountered with different crises and some improvements should be made in this regard and the engagement should be kept stably. Each person knows that the engaged employees can develop the work place. The investigations of the effectiveness of employees show that if the engagement of employees is considered, effectiveness is increased otherwise, the performance of employees is stopped to use the best capability. This study evaluates the discussions, basics and components of engagement maturity assessment

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