CIPD.pdf

The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) published a discussion report on employee engagement in January 2021. The report aims to provide HR professionals with a stronger understanding of employee engagement, its outcomes, and how to measure it robustly. Employee engagement has been a core area of HR since the 1990s, but its definition and measurement are often inconsistent. The report explores the concept of employee engagement, its relationship with performance, and other related constructs such as organizational commitment, organizational identification, and motivation. It also discusses the best available evidence on whether engagement predicts performance and what the body of research tells us about work motivation. The report is based on three rapid evidence assessments and a thematic review of work motivation, and it provides guidance on how to think about and measure employee engagement in a scientifically convincing and practically useful way.