I examine the history of employee engagement and how it has been characterised by thinkers in sociology, psychology …, management and economics. I suggest that, while employers may choose to invest in employee engagement, there are alternative … management strategies that may be profit-maximising. I identify four elements of employee engagement – job 'flow', autonomous …

The HRM-performance linkage often invokes an assumption of increased employee commitment to the organization and other … domain-level analysis (comprising groups of practices for specific domains such as employee development) and the across …-domain or HRM-system level. Findings support a threshold interpretation of the link between HRM domains and employee motivation …

More complete systems of human resource management (HRM) could deliver really extensive gains in employee motivation … progressively more positive once a threshold of HRM practices has been reached. But in terms of employee attitudes, it might be … employee attitudes. …

. Additionally, an accumulation of complementary practices has important communicative functions that intensify positive employee … attitudes. Using nationally representative linked employer–employee data for Britain, we investigate the strength and form of … range of performance measures. We find strong evidence that the relationship between employee job attitudes and our measure …