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Employee Engagement, Fatigue and Happiness in IT Sector in India

N. Indhira and N. Shani
Department of Management Studies, Akshaya Institute of Management Studies, Premeiur Nagar, Othakalmandapam, Coimbatore 641 032, India
Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology  2014  9:1098-1103
http://dx.doi.org/10.19026/rjaset.8.1073  |  © The Author(s) 2014
Received: April ‎22, ‎2014  |  Accepted: July ‎19, ‎2014  |  Published: September 05, 2014

Abstract

Employee engagement has emerged as one of the most important topics in the sphere of human resource management. It stands for the extent to which the employees are committed to the vision, mission and goals of the organization and involved with the work they do. The aim is to assess the main factors encouraging or preventing employee engagement, create fatigue and happiness in ITES employees. The first phase will be a survey was conducted in 10 IT companies and sample Size is 800, using a structured questionnaire. Focus group interview discussion will be based on reasons for attrition and the unique problems of employee engagement, the happiness of ITES employees. Exit interview data will be analyzed using percentage analysis, factor analysis and content analysis using statistical tool SPSS.

Keywords:

Cognitive judgment , employee engagement , extraneous variables,


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Competing interests

The authors have no competing interests.

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