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Employee engagement: A study on gen Y in the manufacturing industry

Today’s engaged employees have become a crucial issue in this business world.Recruiting and engaging employees are the main concern for employers today.Gen Ys gradually dominating the workforce in the future, thus employers prepare to transform some of their policies and system to fit with their c...

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Main Authors: Chee, Wee Tee, Yahya, Khulida Kirana, Johari, Johanim
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2017
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HB Economic Theory
Online Access:http://repo.uum.edu.my/23792/1/CBMM%202017%20651%20657.pdf
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spelling my.uum.repo.237922018-04-02T00:26:29Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/23792/ Employee engagement: A study on gen Y in the manufacturing industry Chee, Wee Tee Yahya, Khulida Kirana Johari, Johanim HB Economic Theory Today’s engaged employees have become a crucial issue in this business world.Recruiting and engaging employees are the main concern for employers today.Gen Ys gradually dominating the workforce in the future, thus employers prepare to transform some of their policies and system to fit with their characteristics such as flexibility in workplace and equilibrium the rewards with their efforts.This study was focus on the Malaysian manufacturing industry which is the main contributor to the country GDP.The employees of the industry mainly comprised of Gen Ys and are known to be less engaged.There are many factors that lead to employee engagement.This study will look at factors that influence employee engagement, namely compensation and work-life balance. A survey was carried out among employees of manufacturing industry where 1000 questionnaires were distributed but only 996 were returned and utilized for data analysis. Regression analysis results indicate that compensation and work life balance were have significant relationship with employee engagement. 2017-10-29 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/23792/1/CBMM%202017%20651%20657.pdf Chee, Wee Tee and Yahya, Khulida Kirana and Johari, Johanim (2017) Employee engagement: A study on gen Y in the manufacturing industry. In: 4th Conference on Business Managemen, 29 - 30 Oktober 2017, The Gurney Resprt Hotel & Recidences Penang, Malaysia.
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Chee, Wee Tee
Yahya, Khulida Kirana
Johari, Johanim
Employee engagement: A study on gen Y in the manufacturing industry
description Today’s engaged employees have become a crucial issue in this business world.Recruiting and engaging employees are the main concern for employers today.Gen Ys gradually dominating the workforce in the future, thus employers prepare to transform some of their policies and system to fit with their characteristics such as flexibility in workplace and equilibrium the rewards with their efforts.This study was focus on the Malaysian manufacturing industry which is the main contributor to the country GDP.The employees of the industry mainly comprised of Gen Ys and are known to be less engaged.There are many factors that lead to employee engagement.This study will look at factors that influence employee engagement, namely compensation and work-life balance. A survey was carried out among employees of manufacturing industry where 1000 questionnaires were distributed but only 996 were returned and utilized for data analysis. Regression analysis results indicate that compensation and work life balance were have significant relationship with employee engagement.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Chee, Wee Tee
Yahya, Khulida Kirana
Johari, Johanim
author_facet Chee, Wee Tee
Yahya, Khulida Kirana
Johari, Johanim
author_sort Chee, Wee Tee
title Employee engagement: A study on gen Y in the manufacturing industry
title_short Employee engagement: A study on gen Y in the manufacturing industry
title_full Employee engagement: A study on gen Y in the manufacturing industry
title_fullStr Employee engagement: A study on gen Y in the manufacturing industry
title_full_unstemmed Employee engagement: A study on gen Y in the manufacturing industry
title_sort employee engagement: a study on gen y in the manufacturing industry
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