EMPLOYEES’ ENGAGEMENT AND ORGANISATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS AMONG EMPLOYEES OF EKO SUPREME RESOURCES NIGERIA LIMITED, AGBARA, OGUN STATE

Abstract

The study examined the relationship between employees’ engagement (EE) and organisational effectiveness. The objectives of the study are to examine the relationship between employees’ engagement indicators which are physical, cognitive and emotional engagement and organisational effectiveness indicators which are employee innovation, satisfaction and interpersonal relationship. Using a survey research design and primary data, responses were obtained from respondents who are employees of the Eko Supreme Resources Nigeria Limited (N=124). A sample size of 91 was determined with Taro Yamene formula. However, only 89 responses were valid and used for the data analyses, using the Pearson Product Moment correlation with the help of SPSS 20. The results of correlation coefficients indicate that physical engagement, emotional engagement, cognitive engagement were found to have significant and positively correlated with employees’ innovation, satisfaction and interpersonal relationship. The results suggest that organizational effectiveness depends on various independent variables but employees’ engagement is also one of the most effective variables. The study concluded that there is significant relationship between organizational effectiveness and employees’ engagement. Employees, who are engaged with jobs, can understand social cues among others thus they can choose the way to improve social skills in order to achieve organizational goals. This study also complies that the relation between employees’ engagement and effectiveness is diverse as per work force patterns in work place. Based on these findings, the study recommends among others, that employees’ engagement should be the concern of all stakeholders and should be complimented with the provision of opportunities and conducive working environment.