Strategies to Enhancing employee engagement and their role in achieving high performance for business organizations

Abstract

Based on the vital role played by the employee engagement to achieve the high performance in all its facilities and areas, as well as the great attention paid by the business organizations to prepare the core capabilities in human resource, the researchers discuss two important topics in the field of human resources management. They are employee engagement and high performance, both can achieve the excellence management. It may be useful to note that one important key for high performance organizations is the individuals in the organization and the organizations should build the concept of the employee engagement and adopt it. The current research examines the study of the strategies of employee engagement as an approach to achieve high performance in a sample of the Iraqi banking sector staff. The research sample is 105 employees. The research depends on essential hypothesis that represent the strategies of employee engagement are associated positively with the dimensions of high performance. The research uses (Armstron, 2009) measurement as a primary tool to collect the data and uses number of ways to prove the validity of research hypotheses. The research concludes a set of conclusions, the most important, the banks are always looking to achieve high performance and thus find a way to get the competitive advantage in the banking sector, therefore the employee engagement and its strategies represent one method to achieve the high performance and thus to achieve the competitive advantage to other banks.