Employee’s personal characteristics and their perception on employee engagement: A study on hotel employees
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Employee, Engagement Hotels, KolkataAbstract
Employee engagement is the concept by which an employee’s intellectual and his emotional attachment to work and organization is measured. Employees of the hotels are to be engaged to reduce employee turnover, enhance customer satisfaction and improved business performance that influences the sustainability of the organization in an aggressively competitive market. Data for the research has been collected from a four and five star category hotels at Kolkata which is analyzed for the role of employee’s personal characteristics, on the employee’s perception on engagement. The finding suggest that employee’s level of educational qualification and there gender have great role in their level of organizational engagement. Suggestions has been provided to improve the employee engagement in the study organizations.
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