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Employee engagement

Meaning in human resources, with examples

nounCommon term

In human resources, employee engagement means: How committed and motivated employees feel about their work and their organisation, and how much effort they are willing to put in.

In Turkish: çalışan bağlılığı, çalışan katılımı

How it is used

HR measures it with an engagement survey, often once a year, and builds action plans from the results. High engagement is linked with better retention and lower absenteeism.

Example sentences

  1. Employee engagement scores dropped after the office move.

  2. We're running the employee engagement survey in October this year.

Common collocations

  • employee engagement survey
  • engagement score
  • improve employee engagement
  • engagement action plan
  • retentionAn organisation's ability to keep its employees, especially valued ones, and the actions it takes to stop them from leaving.
  • wellbeingThe physical and mental health and general happiness of employees, and the programmes a company offers to support them.
  • turnoverThe rate at which employees leave an organisation and have to be replaced, usually shown as a percentage per year.
  • feedbackComments on how well someone has done something, given to help them understand what works and what they could do better.

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