Research Paper
Year: 2020 | Month: October | Volume: 7 | Issue: 10 | Pages: 334-345
The Effective Strategies to Increase Employee Engagement at PT Medco Geothermal Sarulla
I Made Budiarta1, Harmein Nasution2, Nazaruddin3
1Master of Management Study Program, Postgraduate School of University of Sumatera Utara.
2Master of Management Study Program, Postgraduate School of University of Sumatera Utara.
Corresponding Author: I Made Budiarta
ABSTRACT
Employee engagement is always a serious concern for corporate management, professional human resource researchers and management practitioners because it has an impact on the profitability of a company's business. Some indicators that impact of employee engagement include employee performance, job satisfaction, company performance, organizational commitment and employee turnover. Employee Turnover that demonstrates the trend increased from 2016-2018 and there are some complaints from employees about working conditions constitute of the reason in this research.
The purpose of this research is to know the significance of the variables of remuneration, job design, supervisor relationships and co-workers, work environment, training and career development and employment demands on employee engagement variables. Data analysis techniques use descriptive correlational. Then conducted analysis with the SWOT approach to determine the strength, weakness, opportunities and threats of each variable. Based on the SWOT analysis and the significance of the dependent variable correlation of employee engagement variables defined the prioritization and effective strategies to improve employee engagement. The population in this study was 101 people who were permanent employees of PT. Medco Geothermal Sarulla.
The results of this study show that job design has a positive and significant impact on employee engagement, job demands are negatively and significantly impactful to employee engagement. While remuneration, supervisor relationships and co-workers, work environment and training and career development do not have significant effect on employee engagement. Priority and focus strategies to be done to improve employee engagement: 1. job design (job variation, work procedure, work effectiveness), 2. job demands (HR limitations, job urgency), 3. supervisor relationships and co-workers (communication, supervisor’s guidance), 4. work environment (physical facilities, occupational safety and social relations), 5. training and career development (training related to skill enhancement, career development limitation), 6. remuneration (salary standardization).
Keywords: employee engagement, remuneration, job design, supervisor relationships and co-workers, work environment, training and career development, job demands, SWOT, effective strategy.
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