Training and Financial Rewards as Predictors for “Employee- Engagement” in Private Sector Universities of Developing Countries

Abstract

Acquiring and retaining the required human resource is the present day challenge for the modern organizations in the highly sophisticated organizational environments. Employee engagement is one of the emerging human resource management concepts and issues. Considerable attention has been given to the identification of key determinants of employees’ engagement and its linkage with the organizational outcomes and performance of the employees. Few research studies have been conducted to date in Pakistani private universities’ to find out the significance and impact of varied aspects that influence the “employee-engagement”. The outcomes of this study will surely add more to the literature and help the policy makers to shape-up their policies in such a manner that would enhance employees’ engagement in private sector especially the education sector. The present study is an attempt to examine and analyze the impact of training and the financial rewards on employees’ engagement in private sector universities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

Key Words: Training, Financial Rewards, Employee Engagement and Employee Performance.