What is employee engagement and what can the Government do to promote it?

According to a 2018 poll by the CPS HR Institute for Public Sector Employee Engagement, 44% of private-sector employees are entirely engaged while 38% of the public-sector employees are engaged. The gap is alarming. But to understand the concern, you should first understand what employee engagement means. Since, in the government sector, this term is unknown.

What is employee engagement? - Get to know about it.

An employee who is very attached to his or her work or the place of employment, tends to work harder.. They find pride in their work and their workplace; they care about their co-workers and even employers. Those employees not only complete their work on time, but make sure they are providing everything to their organization.

But in the case of government employees in India, engagement is a rare thing to be found. That is mainly since the Government organization rarely does anything to promote employee engagement.

Ways Government could promote employee engagement

Let's focus on the approaches which the Government takes for employee engagement -

By providing essential training for the job

The Government employs people generally through competitive exams. Those do not always mean that the candidate is well-equipped to work in a particular department. So, before starting the work, each employee must be provided with the training. Lack of knowledge of the work also caters to a lack of engagement among employees.

By making sure the employees and their families are healthy

As an organization, the Government must make sure its employees, as well as their families, are healthy. The organization must remind their employees to renew healthinsurance online because that would also affect the productivity of the office.

Giving individual attention

This is almost non-existent in the public sector. But it is one of the essential factors of why employee engagement is so low in government offices. The superior of any department must give individual attention to each employee and ask him/her about any problem he/she is facing.

Final Thoughts

Small things matter. Whether reminding an employee to renew health insurance online or offline, or taking individual care.