Review of Determinants of Employee Engagement in Service Industry

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Supaporn Prasongthan
Chokchai Suwetwattanakul

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As the emerging of human capital management, a concept of employee engagement has expanded increasingly among organizations, consulting firms and practitioners due to the positive related to both individual and organizational performance. Even though the employee engagement has become the attention-grabbing construct, there are a few researches about determinant of employee engagement. This paper scrutinized the determinant factors base on the repeatedly of indicative publication and also the significance of research results. As the result, there are nine determinants that predicted employee engagement in service industry separated into two main constructs; job resources and personal resources. The job resources consisted of six determinants based on analysis of motivation toward the employees’ perception.  There are three determinants that have been reviewed particularly relevant to work-related aspects of personality, self-evaluation, and attitudes toward employee engagement

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