- Title
- Enhancing employee engagement within exponential organisations
- Creator
- Stander, Rizel
- Subject
- Employee motivation
- Subject
- Employees -- Attitudes Organizational change Reengineering (Management)
- Date Issued
- 2018
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MBA
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/35278
- Identifier
- vital:33690
- Description
- Mayo (2016, p. 88) states that many researchers agree that investing in employee engagement has guaranteed great returns; the question for organisations are whether these returns will be linear or exponential for them. A new breed of company emerged called the “exponential organisation” which leverage accelerating technologies to achieve an unheard-of business model that shows exponential growth. However, this technology is still created, maintained and reinvented by employees. Therefore, the premise is that highly engaged employees are one of the key factors that fuel exponential organisations, and this was under investigation in this research study. Employee engagement has been extensively researched yet only a few organisations can claim the majority of their employees are highly engaged. The topic of employee engagement within exponential organisations, however, has barely been covered by scholars or practitioners. Subsequently, given that it is a new organisational phenomenon, little academic or practitioner’s research could be found. For this reason, the main purpose of this study was to find key drivers of employee engagement within exponential organisations to develop a theoretical framework and hypotheses which could be statistically tested. The outcomes could assist in enhancing employee engagement within exponential organisations, thereby achieving greater business success. An online survey questionnaire was used to gather empirical data within a financial technology exponential organisation. The sample consisted of 40 fulltime employees working in Australia, China and South Africa of which most were between the ages of 35 to 44 years old and have been with the organisation for less than two years. The results showed that organisational management and employee autonomy were found to have a direct positive relationship with the concept of employee engagement and is found to be key drivers of employee engagement within exponential organisations.
- Format
- xvi, 202 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Business and Economic Sciences
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
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