Types of Employees and Employee Engagements

There are three types of employees, they are Engaged Employees, Not Engaged Employees and Disengaged Employees (Front Line Leadership, 2018).

Engaged Employees – these employees put their maximum to their work while being happy with the work or the organization and they are passionate towards their job.

Not Engaged Employees – these employees are sometimes happy with the organization or job but putting less efforts with regards to their work, doing only the works that are requested and their expectation is end of the day pay. 

Disengaged Employees – these are the ones who are unhappy with the organization, detached to their job and spreading the negative impressions about the organization. Even though they are doing the minimum with regards to their work, they stay for a long time by plotting against the successful employees who would be moved to higher positions (Front Line Leadership, 2018). 

And there are three types of employee engagements as well, they are engaged to the job, engaged to the organization and engaged to the colleagues (Vance, 2006). 

Engaged to the job – there are some employees who love their job and very much attached and highly results oriented, these people love to see the results of efforts and this motivation leads them to be engaged to their jobs. And another factor of job engagement is better pay, some people stay with the organization because of the pay and the pay motivates them to be engaged to the work.

Engaged to the organization – there are people who are engaged to the organization due to many reasons such as organization’s reputation, employee recognition, luxurious working place and improved work-life balance. Some people prefer these factors than a good pay. We can see below survey which shows what is most desired benefits by employees.

 Source: Cicero 2015 research - Employee performance: What causes great work?

Engaged to the colleagues/supervisor (Front Line Leadership, 2018) – some people are truly committed to their colleagues sometimes to the supervisor, attracted by his/her leadership style and charisma. In addition, this is highly seen in organizations, which has a very friendly culture.  

References

Front Line Leadership, 2018. The Three Types of Employee Engagement. [Online]
Available at: https://www.frontlineleadershipprogram.com/Blog/ArticleID/18/FrontLine-Leadership-The-Three-Types-of-Employee-Engagement
[Accessed 10 June 2019].

Vance, R., 2006. EmployeeEngagement andCommitment. Alexandria: SHRM Foundation.