4 Elements of Employee Engagement (Mosley and Irvine)

4 Elements of Employee Engagement (Mosley and Irvine)

Those of us concerned with engagement of employees (or ourselves) should know what components it consists of. But before I was aware of the elements below, I was fumbling over internet to understand how to engage employees. And guess what, you would find countless ways to engage employees in this approach. But then I found the article by Mosley and Irvine and now I am in a much better position to approach employee engagement my own way. Their four essential components or elements of employee engagement are briefly described in this post:

1. ENABLEMENT: Before thinking any further, one must ensure employees are provided with all the necessary means for accomplishing their job duties. These may include a lot of things like a conducive work environment, flexible work-schedule, providing essential equipment, accessories, job specific know-how, on-boarding, training and development etc.
2. ENERGY: Another essential component of engagement, Energy can be given in different forms:
   
   1. Physical energy – indicates one's ability to put needed physical effort for a task.
   2. Mental energy – denotes one's level of focus during his/her work day.
   3. Spiritual energy – deals with one's belief about the importance of his/her work.
3. EMPOWERMENT: By empowering employees you are actually delegating some authority to them which is needed to accomplish work. Many organizations have fear for the unknown regarding employee empowerment, but without it employee engagement is a far-cry.
4. ENCOURAGEMENT: The first three components set the ground for employee engagement, the 4th one nurtures it day in day out. Encouragement can simply be the "thanks" you receive from your boss or coworker when a work done well. It can also be a bonus for great achievement or just receiving a formal credit in the team meeting for your contribution. Nonetheless it's important to have the shower of encouragement in your culture for engagement to grow.

What do you think about these 4 components? Is there still an element missing? Can't wait to hear your valuable insights regarding this subject.

Source: Mosley, E. and Irvine, D (2020), "The 4 Elements of Employee Engagement You Should Not Overlook", TLNT

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		4 Olufemi Ibitoye HR Consultant, Nigeria
	Components of Creating Engaged Employees 5. EXPECTATION: Employees have less issues when the outcomes that are expected from them are clearly... Sign up

		2 Mike Bolam CxO / Board, United Kingdom
	Elements Leading to Engaged Employees From my experience I would add 6. MUTUAL TRUST as a fifth (sixth) element. So important if the other... Sign up

		4 Waheed Majekodunmi Management Consultant, Nigeria
	Two Other Elements of Employee Engagement The article is well-articulated and distilling as it probes into key factors and strategies managers... Sign up

		3 Fiona Woo Malaysia
	Additional Elements of Employee Engagement I think 9. RESPECT and 10. APPRECIATION should be important elements for employee engagement as well... Sign up

		2 Kenneth Mitchell United States
	Expectations as an Element of Employee Engagement @Olufemi Ibitoye: Expectations should be clearly communicated by BOTH parties in order to ensure tha... Sign up

		2 K R Sethuraman Professor, Malaysia
	A Holding Environment that is Conducive & Nurturing 11. A "HOLDING ENVIRONMENT" is a concept in psychology and counseling, which has permeated to employ... Sign up

		2 Helen Strong Business Consultant, South Africa
	Objectives and Purpose People find extraordinary focus and determination when the task they are completing has 12. PURPOSE.... Sign up

		0 HUGH BILLOT Business Consultant, United Kingdom
	Engagement Needs Four elements don't quite cut it for me although some are all embracing so I would add the following... Sign up

		2 Kuldeep Tanwar Director, India
	Elements of Employee Engagement Summary People are the force which propels any organization towards success, and because of this fact employ... Sign up

		3 Maurice Hogarth Consultant, United Kingdom
	Engage Against Employee Needs No disagreement per se. So, how to develop this engagement? You should consider your employees' nee... Sign up

		1 Aniket Deolikar Consultant, India
	Great Learnings on Employee Engagement This is a very useful thread, specially for organizations and managers during this period of "great ... Sign up