Below is a list of various articles which have informed our thinking in the area of employee engagement and we thought you might be interested in reading some of them...
- Bates, S. (2004), “Getting Engaged”, HR Magazine, February,
pp. 44-51.
- Bauer, T. N., Erdogan, B., Liden, R. C. and Wayne, S. J.
(2006), “A Longitudinal Study of the Moderating Role of Extraversion:
Leader-Member Exchange, Performance, and Turnover During New Executive
Development”, Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol. 91, NO. 2, pp. 298-310.
- Baumruk, R. (2004), “The Missing Link: The Role of Employee
Engagement in Business Success”, (report of a Hewitt Associates/Michael Treacy
study), Workspan, November, pp. 48-53.
- Baumruk, R. (2006), “Why Managers are Crucial to Increasing
Engagement: Identifying Steps Managers Can Take to Engage Their Workforce”, Strategic
HR Review.
- Breland, J. W., Treadway, D. C., Duke, A. B. and Adams, G.
L. (2007), “The Interactive Effect of Leader-Member Exchange and Political
Skill on Subjective Career Success”, Journal of Leadership & Organizational
Studies, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 1-14.
- Cheese, P. and Cantrell, S. (2005), “How to… Integrate
Corporate Culture and Employee Engagement”, Strategic HR Review, Vol.
4, No. 6, pp. 5.
- CIPD (2006), Working Life: Employee Attitudes and
Engagement 2006.
- The Conference Board (2003), Linking People Measures to
Strategy, Research Report R-1342-03-RR, New York: NY.
- Cox P and Parkinson, A. P. (2002), “Values and their impact
on the changing employment relationship”, in Hollinshead G, Nicholls P, and
Tailby S, Employee Relations (2nd edn), FT Prentice Hall.
- Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1990), Flow: The Psychology of Optimal
Experience, New York: Harper.
- Drizin, M. (2005), “Lets Get Engaged: Benchmarks Help
Employers Drive Results”, Workspan, April, pp. 46-51.
- Erdogan, B. and Liden, R. C. (2006), “Collectivism as a
Moderator of Responses to Organisational Justice: Implications for Leader-Member
Exchange and Integration”, Journal of Organizational Behavior,
Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 1-17.
- Erdogan, B., Liden, R. C. and Kraimer, M. L. (2006),
“Justice and Leader-Member Exchange: The Moderating Role of Organizational
Culture”, Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 49, No. 2, pp. 395-406.
- Finegan, J. E. (2000), “The Impact of Person and
Organizational Values on Organizational Commitment”, Journal of Occupational and
Organizational Psychology, Vol. 73, pp. 149-169.
- Fleming, J. H., Coffman, C. and Harter, J. K. (2005),
“Managing Your Human Sigma”, Harvard Business Review, Vol. 83,
No. 7/8, pp. 106-114.
- The Future Laboratory (2004), Collaborative Futures:
Recruitment, Work and the Changing Nature of the Global Organisation.
- Gerstner, C. R. and Day, D. V. (1997), “Meta-Analysis Review
of Leader-Member Exchange Theory: Correlates and Construct Issues”, Journal
of Applied Psychology, Vol. 82, No. 6, pp. 827-844.
- Gibbons, J. (2006), Employee Engagement: A Review of Current
Research and Its Implications, The Conference Board.
- Graen, G. B., Hui, C. and Taylor, E. A. (2006),
“Experience-Based Learning About LMX Leadership and Fairness in Project Teams:
A Dyadic Directional Approach”, Academy of Management Learning &
Education, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 448-460.
- Graen, G. B. and Uhl-Bien, M. (1995), “Development of
Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) Theory of Leadership Over 25 Years: Applying a
Multi-Level Mullet-Domain Perspective”, Leadership Quarterly, Vol. 6. pp.
219-247.
- Greguras, G. J. and Ford, J. M. (2006), “An Examination of
the Multidimensionality of Supervisor and Subordinate Perceptions of
Leader-Member Exchange”, Journal of Occupational & Organizational
Psychology, Vol. 79, No. 3, pp. 433-465.
- Gubman, E. (1998), The Talent Solution: Aligning Strategy and
People to Achieve Extraordinary Results, New York: McGraw Hill.
- Harley, A. and Lee, D. (2005), “How O2 Built the Business
Case for Engagement: Revitalizing an Employee Engagement Program and Gaining
Senior Buy-in”, Strategic HR Review, Vol. 4, No. 6, pp. 24-27.
- Harris, K. J., Harris, R. B. and Eplion, D. M. (2007),
“Personality, Leader-Member Exchanges, and Work Outcomes”, Journal of Behavioral &
Applied Management, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 92-107.
- Harris, K. J. and Kacmar, K. M. (2006), “Too Much of a Good
Thing: The Curvilinear Effect of Leader-Member Exchange on Stress”,
Journal of Social Psychology, Vol. 146, No. 1, pp. 65-84.
- Harrison, D. A., Newman, D. A. and Roth, P. L. (2006), “How
Important are Job Attitudes? Meta-analytic Comparisons of Integrative
Behavioural Outcomes and Time Sequences”, Academy of Management Journal, Vol.
49, No. 2, pp. 305-325.
- Harter, J. K., Schmidt, F. L. and Hayes, T. L. (2002),
“Business-Unit-Level Relationship Between Employee Satisfaction, Employee
Engagement, and Business Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis”, Journal of Applied Psychology,
Vol. 87, No. 2, pp. 268-279.
- Hertzberg, F., Mausner, B. and Snyderman, B. (1959), The Motivation
to Work, New York: John Wiley.
- IES (2004), The Drivers of Employee Engagement.
- Kahn, W. A. (1990), “Psychological Conditions of Personal
Engagement and Disengagement at Work”, Academy of Management Journal, Vol.
33, No. 4, pp. 692-724.
- Liden, R. C. and Maslyn, J. M. (1998), “Multidimensionality
of Leader-Member Exchange: An Empirical Assessment through Scale Development”, Journal
of Management, Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 43-72.
- Luthans, F. and Church, A. H. (2002), “Positive
Organizational Behaviour: Developing and Managing Psychological Strengths”, Academy
of Management Executive, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 57-75.
- Maslow, A. (1954), Motivation and Personality, New
York: Harper & Row.
- May, D. R., Gilson, R. L. and Harter, L. M. (2004), “The
Psychological Conditions of Meaningfulness, Safety and Availability and the
Engagement of the Human Spirit at Work”, Journal of Occupational and Organizational
Psychology, Vol. 77, pp. 11-37.
- McBain, R. (2006), “Employee Engagement: The Emergence of a
New Construct?”, Manager Update, Vol. 17, No. 4.
- Melcrum (2005), “Employee Engagement: How to Build a
High-performance Workforce”, Research Summary, Melcrum.
- Oakley, J. (2005), The Road to an Engaged Workforce,
Forum for People Management and Measurement, Evanston, Ill.
- Oldham, G. R. and Cummings, A. (1996), “Employee Creativity:
Personal and Contextual Factors at Work”, Academy of Management Journal, Vol.
39, pp. 607-634.
- Parkinson, A. P. (1998), “The Changing Nature of the
Employment Relationship: Mapping a Subjective Terrain of the Psychological
Contract”, DBA Thesis, Henley Management College.
- Reichheld, F. (2001), “Lead for Loyalty”, Harvard
Business Review, July-Aug, pp. 76-84.
- Richer, S. F. and Vallerand, R. J. (1995), “Supervisors’
Interactional Styles and Subordinates’ Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation”, The
Journal of Social Psychology, Vol. 135, No. 6, pp. 707-722.
- Robbins, S. P. (1991),
Organizational Behaviour: Concepts, Controversies, and Application, 5th ed, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.
- Robinson, D., Perryman, S. and Hayday, S. (2004), The
Drivers of Employee Engagement, Research Summary, Institute for
Employment Studies.
- Salanova, M., Agut, S. and Peiro, J. M. (2005), “Linking
Organizational Resources and Work Engagement to Employee Performance and
Customer Loyalty: The Mediation of Service Climate”, Journal of Applied Psychology,
Vol. 90, No. 6, pp. 1217-1227.
- Schaufeli, W. B. and Bakker, A. B. (2004), “Job Demands, Job
Resources, and their Relationship with Burnout and Engagement: A Multi-sample
Study”, Journal of Organizational Behaviour, Vol. 25, pp. 293-315.
- Schriesheim, C. A., Castro, S. L. and Cogliser, C. C.
(1999), “Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) Research: A Comprehensive Review of
Theory, Measurement, and Data-analytic Practices”, Leadership Quarterly,
Vol. 10, No. 1, pp.63.
- Scott, S G and Bruce, R A (1994), “Determinants of
Innovative Behaviour: A Path Model of Individual Innovation in the Workplace”, Academy
of Management Journal, 37(3) pp 580-607.
- Smythe, J. (2005), “The Democratization of Strategy and
Change: Headlines From a Recent Study into Employee Engagement”, Communication
World, March-April, pp. 32-35.
- Sparrowe, R. T., Soetjipto, B. W. and Kraimer, M. L. (2006),
“Do Leaders’ Influence Tactics Relate to Members’ Helping Behavior? It Depends
on the Quality of the Relationship”, Academy of Management Journal, Vol.
49, No. 6, pp. 1194-1208.
- Stairs, M., Galpin, M., Page, N. and Linley, A. (2006),
“Retention on a Knife Edge: The Role of Employee Engagement in Talent
Management”, Selection & Development Review, Vol. 22, No. 5, pp. 19-23.
- Tierney, P., Farmer, S. M. and Graen, G. B. (1999), “An
Examination of Leadership and Employee Creativity: The Relevance of Traits and
Relationships”, Personnel Psychology,
Vol. 52, No. 3, pp.591-620.
- Walker Information Inc. (2005), The Walker Loyalty Report for
Loyalty in the Workplace, Research Summary.