A recent www.smartKPIs.com blog post, ‘Employee engagement and organisational performance’, outlined the approaches used by researchers to assess employee engagement and performance. The post concluded that as organisations show the relationship between engagement scores and bottom-line outcomes, everyone pays attention to the engagement index. Establishing this critical link between people and performance helps HR professionals prove that people-related interventions are a worthwhile investment (smartKPIs.com, 2010).
Engagement is all about getting employees to ‘give it their all’. Various research studies show a strong connection between an employee’s level of engagement and the level and quality of work performance.
The compensation of the top executives represents an important aspect of administrative science, as it links together aspects that relate to corporate governance, human capital, organizational culture and performance management. Ideally, the executive remuneration philosophy of the organization should ensure that the remuneration properly reflects the duties and responsibilities of its executives and that remuneration is competitive in attracting, motivating and retaining people of the highest caliber.
In the last decade Employee Engagement has become a hot topic both in academic literature and in practice. The debate goes mostly around the implications that employee engagement can have on the success and bottom line of a company (Sacks, 2006).
