Impact of Organizational Culture on Employee Engagement and Effectiveness in Indian Manufacturing Company

Abstract

 Engagement of employees is considered as a robust indicator of outcomes that are highly valued  by any business in any sector of the industry. Therefore, employee engagement and effectiveness  could prove to be an excellent parameter to assess the health of the organization as such with regards to satisfaction, innovation, commitment, retention and productivity. Organizations that  are observed to have a positive organizational culture tend to offer rewards to their employees  which in turn leads to the creation of an environment that is enabling, allowing employees to  grow, develop and function at their utmost potential. This particular study was carried out to  understand the impact of organizational culture on employee engagement and effectiveness  within the Indian manufacturing sector. This study was outlined on the basis of the structural  approach theory and adopted a secondary research methodology where the data for the study  was gathered through secondary sources derived from researches conducted by researchers in  the past and available from scholarly sites. The study outlines four types of organizational culture  which included; power culture, role culture, achievement culture and support culture. Each of the  said cultures had a varying impact on the engagement and effectiveness of the employees. The  findings of this research indicated that the culture of the organization had a largely positive and  significant impact on engagement and effectiveness of employees. It was also observed that  employees who were empowered to utilize their discretion at their organizations tend to project  higher levels of enthusiasm and this is clearly a trait of an employee who is thoroughly engaged