Work and Organization Employee Engagement

Question: Discuss about theWork and Organizationfor Employee Engagement. Answer: Change in Workforce and its Impact on Employee Engagement: Workforce can be defined as the labor force or the pool of people that are available or already engaged in some of the work in the country. There are various factors that can contribute in farming the workforce composition (Macey, Schneider, Barbera and Young, 2011). The age, demographics, sex etc. are some of them that have greater impact on the workforce and its characteristics. The labor force or the supply and demand of labor in the market is also driving force that changes the workforce composition of any of the country. As far as Australia is considered, there are many changes that have been observed in the workforce composition of the country since years. Some of the occupations that were existed in 1990 are not present today and thus the workforce does not engage in such jobs in recent times. The three main shifts in the ages, demographics and the gender made modifications in the workforce composition in Australia (Chao L. E., 2014) The shift that has been observed in the wor kforce composition is modern in nature. Rate of unemployment in Australia is decreasing day by day; this is because more and more of the Australian population is getting engaged in the jobs. The changes in the unemployment rate of Australia also affect the changes in the labor market. The people who are not engaged in work earlier are also working these days. The most important change that have been observed in the workforce composition in Australia as well as in world are related to engagement of females in most of the jobs and rise in employment to population ratio. This suggests that more and more women are focusing on leaving their houses and doing some kind of corporate jobs in Australia and in world as well as the number of employed people is also increasing with respect to the population of the country (James, McKechnie and Swanberg, 2011). It is not only the changes in the demography that is affecting the workforce but the external environment changes are also affecting the workforce in the organization these days. Earlier the workforce that works in the organization was stable in nature. The employees used to be loyal with the organization and stick to the one they work with. In recent years, the concept of full time roles of the employees has been lost (Stone, 2013). People work on contract basis or part time basis. The advancement in technology allows the employees to work from home and thus creates flexibility for the employees to work. The changing workforce affects many factors in the organization such as its motivational policies, employee engagement policies, leadership and organizational structure etc. The changes that occur in the workforce composition affect the engagement of the employees in the organization. Employment life of the employees has different stages and at these different stages they have differed perception and level of involvement towards their work (Cummings and Worley, 2014). At younger age of the working life, the employees have less attachment towards their job the organization and thus they never try to engage in the activities of the organization. On other end, organization also does not involve the new employees who are not found to be responsible enough in the decision-making process. This is because they will never make any relevant argument and thus waste the time and resources of the organization. However, analyzing the change in the workforce is the sign that organization need to make more efforts towards employee engagement (Bridges and Bridges, 2017). This is because; it is the era of Job hopping. The employees are hunting for new jobs now and then t hat can provide them exposure to new technology and environment. Today, employees do not believe in staying in a company for so long thus it require the organization to create an environment that forces the employees to stick to their organizations only. This develops the need of more employee engagement strategies in the organization. Some of the strategies that have been required to be implemented in order to engage the employees are growth opportunities, involvement of employees indecision making processes, providing the employees with the culture of learning in the organization so that the employees can learn more and more thing in the same organization without switching their jobs (Ng, Lyons and Schweitzer, 2012). Developing team work in the organization is also a strategy that helps in engaging the employees. This is because collaborative approach of working provides an environment of learning and developing skills at personal and professional level. This development for the young employees is very important so that they can improve their communication skills along with their technical skills (Espinoza and Ukleja, 2016). To summarize, it can said that there are various changes that has been occurred in the workforce from inception to present. Changes such as involvement of female workers, changing in the needs of the employees, generation of part time job concept etc. have been observed in the recent years workforce composition. As the employees work at contractual basis, so they have the opportunity to move to the other organization very easily and most of the times the present organization fails to retain the talent with them as other organization or the competitors try to acquire the talented employees (Podsiadlowski, Grschke, Kogler, Springer and Van Der Zee, 2013). These changes should be analyzed by the management of the organizations and thus they have to make efforts in implementing the strategy that can help in engaging more and more employees to the organization for long time. Employee engagement is more necessary for todays workforce because they are not that much loyal to the organization and always ready to switch their jobs in greed of higher package and more exposure (Vance and Paik, 2015). The mangers need to create that learning environment and growth opportunities in the firm so that the employees can remain in the same organization for long. 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