International Perspectives on Employee Engagement

<p>Employee engagement or more specifically how to obtain more engagement and what to do with the disengaged preoccupies C-level executives human resources professionals and consultants. Factiva a global database of more than 33000 national and international publications indexed by Dow Jones registered a near-continuous double-digit growth in interest in the topic since 1994. COVID-19 appears to be straining work systems and employee engagement may be suffering.</p><p>Interestingly the American preoccupation with employee engagement as evidenced by the tens of thousands press mentions indexed by Factiva and the over 38000 website hits for the search term employee engagement tools does not appear shared by the rest of the world.</p><p>International Perspectives on Employee Engagement offers a predominately non-American view of employee engagement. The authors address employee engagement from a variety of perspectives. They represent both empirical research and theoretical discussions. The chapters have a distinctly international viewpoint with authors hailing from Europe Middle East Africa and North America. Given the cultural diversity of the authors this book offers a unique non-American perspective on employee engagement.</p><p>With a new introduction that specifically examines the possible key performance indicators (KPIs) for the annual executive performance appraisal process resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic the chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of <i>International Studies of Management & Organization</i>.</p>