THE INFLUENCE OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES ON EMPLOYEE WORK ENGAGEMENT IN SELECTED MANUFACTURING COMPANIES IN SOUTH INDIA

Abstract

The main objective of this study is to investigate the influence of Human Resources Management (HRM) practices (employee communications, employee development and rewards and recognitions) on employee engagement. Employee engagement has emerged as one of the most important topics in the sphere of human resource management. The aim of this paper is to examine and gain better understanding of the drivers that influence employee engagement in a printing company. Employee communication, employee development, rewards, and recognitions were selected as independent variables. Sample for the study consists of 157 employees from 5 manufacturing companies in south India. Data were collected with the help of a questionnaire and analysed using the Statistic Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 23. Throughout the statistical analysis, it is found that there is a significant relationship between the two independent variables with the dependent variable. In conclusion, it is observed that HRM practices have an influence on the employee work engagement. This shows that employers need to develop proper and well-structured HRM policies in attaining high work engagement level among the employees. However, training & development was not significant in relationship to employee engagement. Hence, organization should ensure proper and relevant training methods so as to bring in utmost level of employee engagement.

Keywords: employee communications, employee development and rewards and recognitions, work engagement.