EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT IN GLOVE MANUFACTURING SECTOR OF MALAYSIA

Abstract

Over decades, employee engagement has becoming a global challenge among practitioners and researchers. The growing level of uncertainty in today’s business world requires organisation to continuously adapt to changes meanwhile accommodate the different needs of the employee to encourage a long-term employee engagement for an organization to stays competitively.
Based on social exchange theory, the present study examined the relationship of psychological contract influence on employee engagement with the exchange ideology that linked to psychological contract dimension effect of cognitive, affective and behavioural. This research will be completed by drawing a sample size of 377 respondents from employees working under glove manufacturing sector of Malaysia using convenience sampling with self-administered questionnaire. The questionnaire employed in this study will questioned based on the variables in this research to measure the underlying process of Psychological Contract dimensions that lead to a progressive and favourable employee-employers relationship. The data collected in this study will be
analysed using the Statistical Package of Social Science (SPSS) version 22.0 which involves tests such as pilot test, factor analysis, preliminary test, descriptive statistic, hypothesis testing, etc to ensure the appropriateness and reliability of this study. Based on the findings obtained from this research, the importance of study employee engagement in glove manufacturing sector of Malaysia were discussion.