Predicting Employee Engagement: A study among millennials

Abstract

This research aims to confirm a model of factors than influencing employee engagement, that is the work itself, working environment, leadership, opportunity for personal growth, and opportunity to contribute. Using survey, the sample is taken from the list of millennial employees of one of the oldest private company in Indonesia. This research uses Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) as a tool to analyze the data. The hypothesis of this research is that all the latent variable influences the employee engagement with significant goodness of fit, with the strongest loading factors by work itself and working environment. Result shows that work itself as the strongest driver factor of engagement. The second position is work environment. That means millennial generation wanted to work happily in good environment. Keywords—employee engagement; millennial generation