Antecedents to Employee Engagement

By Karen K. Wollard, B. Shuck. 2011

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The Problem. Employee engagement is an emerging concept in the HRD literature, with demonstrated organizational benefits; yet little is known about its antecedents. The purpose of this article is to explore conceptual and empirically driven antecedents as well as differentiate the two perspectives. The Solution. As a result of a structured literature review method, 42 antecedents were grouped by application at the individual and organizational level. The Stakeholders. HRD researchers seeking to conduct original research in organizations, and practitioners interested in creating greater levels of engagement in their organizations will find the discussion and implications sections and the index tool valuable.

Subfields: Demography, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

Hotel Employee Work Engagement and Its Consequences (2016, background): “…initiatives through opportunities for learning and talent management systems (Czarnowsky, 2008; Hughes & Rog, 2008; Reio & Callahan, 2004; Wollard & Shuck, 2011) may work as antecedents to engagement, so hospitality firms may consider using these HR management practices to cultivate work…”
Corporate Social Responsibility, Employee–Company Identification, and Organizational Commitment: Mediation by Employee Engagement (2015, unknown): “Researchers have also found EE sensitive to context (Kühnel et al. 2012; Rich et al. 2010; Wollard and Shuck 2011) and have invigorated need for more empirical studies in order to address the generalizability issues.”
What Is a Resource: Toward a Taxonomy of Resources for Employee Engagement (2020, background): “Connected, several scholars have focused exclusively on the antecedents of engagement (Chughtai & Buckley, 2011; Keating & Heslin, 2015; Rich, Lepine, & Crawford, 2010; Saks & Gruman, 2014; Wollard & Shuck, 2011).”
Employee engagement and performance: a systematic literature review (2018, background): “Nevertheless, the process requires certain investments in antecedents of engagement [Wollard and Shuck, 2011], adjusting the organization to the new demands, enabling employers to calculate the return on engagement and, on this basis, making more-informed managerial decisions.”
A theoretical model of the antecedents and outcomes of employee engagement (2014, background): “…May et al. 2004; Macey & Schneider, 2008; Saks, 2006; Shaufeli et al., 2002), engagement has gained attention of HRD scholars only in recent years (Kim, Kolb, & Kim, 2012; Rurkkhum & Bartlett, 2012; Shuck & Wollard, 2010; Soane, Truss, Alfes, Shantz, Rees, & Gatenby, 2012; Wollard & Shuck, 2011).”