Engagement Is A Positive Antithesis Of Employee Engagement During Role Performance

Employee engagement is a property of the relationship between an organization and its employees. An engaged employee refer to one who is fully absorbed by and enthusiastic about their work and so takes positive action to further the organization's images. According to Kahn’s view (1990), employee engagement is defined as harnessing of organization members’ selves to their own work roles, people employ and express themselves in three different aspects which are physical, cognitive, and emotional during role performances. The cognitive aspect concerns about the employees beliefs’ about its leaders and the working conditions in the organization. The emotional aspect is concerns about how employees feel and whether they have positive or negative

2001). The engagement is characterized by three dimensions which are energy, involvement, and efficacy was the opposite of the three burnout dimensions of exhaustion, cynicism, and lacking of professional efficacy. Exhaustion measures the weary without referring to other people as the source of one’s tiredness. Cynicism refers to indifference or a distant attitude towards work, not necessarily with other people. Lastly, professional efficacy includes both social and non-social aspects of occupational accomplishments. Low scores on exhaustion and cynicism, and high scores on efficacy are foretelling for engagement. It becomes clear that the burnout can occur to individuals who do not work with other people. They also state that engagement is not a momentary and specific state, but it is a more sustainable and pervasive affective-cognitive state that is not focused on any particular object, event or individual. Burnout and engagement, both are opposite concepts, but should be measured independently with different instruments. Engagement is characterized by three dimensions which are vigour, dedication, and absorption (Schaufeli and Bakker, 2004). Vigour reflects employees’ willingness to put their efforts into their job, the high levels of energy and their patience and persistence in facing the difficulties. Dedication refers to the employees’ high involvement in their job, and by a sense of enthusiasm and significance. Absorption means ones being fully concentrated and pleasantly occupied with work, this can be easily seen from the employee who does not keeping the track of time and their inability to separate themselves from the job at