Employee Engagement in Theory and Practice

Catherine Truss is Head of the People, Management and Organisation Group at Kent Business School, University of Kent, UK. Kerstin Alfes is Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Resource Studies, Tilburg University, The Netherlands.Rick Delbridge is Dean of Research for the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of Organizational Analysis in Cardiff Business School at Cardiff University, UK.Amanda Shantz is Assistant Professor in the School of Human Resource Management at York University, Canada.Emma Soane is Lecturer in the Department of Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

• Introduction Catherine Truss, Kerstin Alfes, Rick Delbridge, Amanda Shantz and Emma Soane Part I: The Psychology of Engagement 1. What is Engagement? Wilmar Schaufeli 2. Engagement in the Context of Positive Psychology Carolyn M. Youssef-Morgan and Kristi M. Bockorny 3. The Antecedents and Drivers of Employee Engagement Eean R. Crawford, Bruce L. Rich, Brooke R. Buckman and Jenny Bergeron 4. Relational Contexts of Personal Engagement at Work William A. Kahn and Emily D. Heaphy Part II: Employee Engagement: The HRM Implications 5. Strategic HRM and Employee Engagement Paul Sparrow 6. HRD and Employee Engagement Brad Shuck and Tonette Rocco 7. Job Design and Employee Engagement Maria Tims and Arnold B Bakker 8. Leadership and Employee Engagement Emma Soane 9. Employee Engagement in a Cultural Context Sebastiaan Rothmann 10. Employee Engagement in Multinational Organizations Clare Kelliher, Veronica Hope-Hailey and Elaine Farndale Part III: Employee Engagement: Critical Perspectives 11. Engagement: A murmuration of objects Tom Keenoy 12. Employee Engagement: Fashionable fad or long-term fixture? David E Guest 13. Employee Voice and Engagement John Purcell Part IV: Employee Engagement in Practice 14. Relevance of Employee Engagement across Cultures from the Perspective of HR Professional Associations Amanda Shantz, Jordan Schoenberg and Christopher Chan 15. Measuring and Understanding Engagement Luke Fletcher and Dilys Robinson 16. Case Studies in Employee Engagement Kerstin Alfes and Selma Suna Yeltekin Leloglu

'This engagement textbook should be required reading not just for HR students but for all practitioners and people involved in engagement. The editors have compiled an eclectic and informative mix of articles on engagement. The strong academic underpinnings of the book offer the reader research based conclusions and many important questions to consider.' - Employee Engagement Awards for 2013 - Winner of Best Engagement Book 2013