Employee Engagement: A Study from the Private Sector in Malaysia

Employee engagement is a major problem in a private sector in Malaysia. This problem needs to be addressed urgently in order to cope with the uncertainty of turbulent industry condition. This paper attempts to determine the antecedents of employee engagement such as job autonomy, strategic attention, role benefit and goal setting in private sector in Malaysia. A survey method was used to collect 204 responses from private sector employees in Malaysia which are engaged in telecommunication, finance, IT, property and plantation. The result of the regression analysis has shown tremendous outcome indicated that job autonomy, goal setting and role benefit had significant effect on employee engagement in private sector industries. This study has given an important role to the organization in developing strategy for their human resource development to enhance productivity and reducing cost of hiring new employees.