Linking Employee Engagement to Employee Performance Moderating Effect of Organizational Politics

Abstract

Extensive growth of service sector organization and changing work place dynamics and work environment call management to device mean of employee engagement and improve work performance. Organizational politics has been prevalent in most of the organizations and always being influencing the work dynamics as well as work culture affecting employee performance. The aim of present study is to analyse the linkage between drivers of employee engagement and employee performance and analyse whether organizational politics moderates the relationship between employee engagement and work performance. Descriptive research design has been used by the researcher in the present research work. The objective of the study and hypothesis was tested through collecting data for the problem under investigation using survey method. Structured questionnaire covering different dimension of objective was piloted on 169 employee associated with service sector organization located at Agra and Mathura Vrindavan of UP state. Confirmatory factor of employee engagement practices to identify the strength of factors of employee engagement and relationship with employee performance. Regression analysis was carried out to assess the moderating role of organization politics in the relationship between employee engagement and work performance. SPSS 22 software was used to carry out statistical analysis and testing the proposed hypothesis. Outcome of the research finding indicates that employee engagement practices significantly influence the employee performance. The study further support the hypothesis that organizational politics moderates the relationship between employee engagement practices and employee performance Service Sector organization is labour intensive organsiation where human resource and values plays an important role. Extensive research is carried out to identify the determinants of employee engagement to boost employee performance. Organization politics is an important issue and its positive intervention bring positive outcome in the organsiation Organizations recognize the importance of organizational politics with suitable work engagement practices to achieve greater performance. The management must follow the holistic approach for balancing employee activities so as to gain intended outcome.