Impact of Demographic Variables on Employee Engagement level in IT Sector
Keywords:
Employee Engagement, IT sector, Salanova Engagement Scale, Age, Gender, Experience and Marital StatusAbstract
In today’s milieu, organizations worldwide are focusing on achieving great benefits from minimal investments. The IT sector is the chief employer to a major chunk of working professionals of all d developing and developed economies. But in the contemporary times, Long and nerve-racking working hours, cut throat antagonism, increasing computerization ,heavy workload and tedious nature of work has deemed employee engagement a gigantic Issue in IT sector. This exploratory study examined the extent to which demographic variables such as, age, gender, marital status and tenure in organisation contributed to their engagement levels. The finding of the study will help to choose the correct engagement strategy according to the differential demography of an organisation. The results of the analysis have reflected no significant impact of any of the demographic variable on overall engagement level and hence HR managers can freely choose the engagement strategies without having to worry about the differences of demographic nature among their employees. The tool implemented to collect primary data is structured questionnaire and personal interviews with respondents. Secondary data was taken through various research journals, business magazines and websites. Out of 426 questionnaires circulated 404 completely filled responses were received with, that were analysed to derive logical interpretation. The data was collected through employees of various IT and ITeS companies from the state of Rajasthan.
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