The following references could be a good start, but there are of course a huge amount of articles within the field:

Hakanen, J. J., Schaufelui, W. B., & Ahola, K. (2008). The job demands-resources model: A three-year cross-lagged study of burnout, depression, commitment, and work engagement. Work & Stress, 22, 224–241.

Harter, J. K., Schmidt, F. L., & Hayes, T. L. (2002). Business-unit-level relationship between employee satisfaction, employee engagement, and business outcomes: A meta-analysis. Journal of Applied Psychology, 87, 268–279.

Maslach, C., & Leiter, M. P. (2008). Early predictors of job burnout and engagement. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93, 498–512.

Schaufeli, W. B., & Bakker, A. B. (2004). Job demands, job resources, and their relationship with burnout and engagement: a multisample study. Journal of Organizational Behavior 25, 293–315.

Schaufeli, W., & Salanova, M. (2007). Work engagement: An emerging psychological concept and its implications for organizations. In S. W. Gilliand (Eds.), Managing social and ethical issues in organizations (pp. 135–177). Greenwich, CT: Information Age.

Greetings Srikanth!

I am also researching employee engagement. I will look through my files and attach them for you. Good luck with your research.

Warm regards,

Sherri

It depends on what you mean by employee engagement...

I suggest Schaufeli's work on "work engagement". He defines work engagement as “a positive fulfilling, affective, motivational state of work-related well-being, described by vigor, dedication, and absorption” (Schaufeli, Salanova, Gonzalez-Roma, & Bakker, 2002, p. 74).

Here is a first reference:

Schaufeli, W. B., Salanova, M., Gonzalez-Roma, V., & Bakker, A. (2002). The measurement of burnout and engagement: A confirmatory factor analytic approach. Journal of Happiness Studies, 3, 71-92. doi:10.1023/A:1015630930326.

Good luck!

You should check out Wilmar Schaufeli's website as you can obtain all articles on employee/work engagement from one source. Kind regards,

Hi, 

You could check Arnolds Bakker website he also has nice papers about the JD-R model and use work engagement as an outcome variable.

Regards 

I would definitely recommend the following:

Simpson, M. R. (2009). Engagement at Work: A Review of the Literature. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 46(7), 1012–24.

This paper highlights four lines of research on engagement at work: personal engagement, burnout/engagement, work engagement, and employee engagement.

Regards

Dear  Srikanth,

Do have a look on attachments, you may found them relevant and valuable for the said topic

https://hbr.org/resources/pdfs/comm/achievers/hbr_achievers_report_sep13.pdf 

http://www.insyncsurveys.com.au/media/92145/impact_of_employee_engagement_on_performance.pdf

http://www.schroders.com/tp-us/home?id=a0j50000002vnBtAAI

http://www.acas.org.uk/media/pdf/s/1/Building_employee_engagement-accessible-version-Jun-2012.pdf

http://www.acas.org.uk/media/pdf/7/6/08140-MacLeod-Clarkes-Concept-of-Employee-Engagement.pdf

Dear Payalji,

I did research on employee engagement. I have some papers, if you want cite and refer please read the two papers in following links-

Employees’ Engagement in Public Sector Paper Industry; http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1664477

Organizational Citizenship Behavior as an Outcome of Engagement; http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2003378

Dear Srikath

Employee engagement has been defined differently by different researchers. to develop a better conceptualization of the construct, you can go through the initial conceptualization of employee engagement by Kahn and proceed to read Schaufeli & Macey and Schneider's conceptualizations. I am attaching herewith a few research papers in addition to what I have mentioned. I have also attached one of my publications on engagement.

Hope these papers will serve your purpose.

Conference Paper Reconceptualising Employee Engagement

Dear Borah,

As the present indicates happiness and employee engagement is a good topic to do the research in future. As I did  on engagement on 2004-2007 my experience indicates for today's relevance. 

The following references could be a good start, but there are of course a huge amount of articles within the field:

Hakanen, J. J., Schaufelui, W. B., & Ahola, K. (2008). The job demands-resources model: A three-year cross-lagged study of burnout, depression, commitment, and work engagement. Work & Stress, 22, 224–241.

Harter, J. K., Schmidt, F. L., & Hayes, T. L. (2002). Business-unit-level relationship between employee satisfaction, employee engagement, and business outcomes: A meta-analysis. Journal of Applied Psychology, 87, 268–279.

Maslach, C., & Leiter, M. P. (2008). Early predictors of job burnout and engagement. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93, 498–512.

Schaufeli, W. B., & Bakker, A. B. (2004). Job demands, job resources, and their relationship with burnout and engagement: a multisample study. Journal of Organizational Behavior 25, 293–315.

Schaufeli, W., & Salanova, M. (2007). Work engagement: An emerging psychological concept and its implications for organizations. In S. W. Gilliand (Eds.), Managing social and ethical issues in organizations (pp. 135–177). Greenwich, CT: Information Age.

Dear Payal,

Read the papers as well as review the comments and may cite accordingly

Organizational Citizenship Behavior as an Outcome of Engagement. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228197229_Organizational_Citizenship_Behavior_as_an_Outcome_of_Engagement [accessed Mar 24, 2015].

Barman, Arup, Employees’ Engagement in Public Sector Paper Industry (June 30, 2007). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1664477 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1664477

Article Organizational Citizenship Behavior as an Outcome of Engagement

Look for articles by professor Hans Jeppe Jeppersen, Århus University Denmark

This should get you started, good luck:

Barrick, M., Thurgood, G., Smith, T., & Courtright, S. (2014). Collective Organizational Engagement: Linking Motivational Antecedents, Strategic Implementation, and Firm Level Performance. Academy of Management Journal, amj-2013.

Cross, R., Gray, P., Gerbasi, A., & Assimakopoulos, D. (2012). Building engagement from the ground up: How top organizations leverage networks to drive employee engagement. Organizational Dynamics, 41(3), 202-211.

Zhang, X., & Bartol, K. M. (2010). Linking empowering leadership and employee creativity: The influence of psychological empowerment, intrinsic motivation, and creative process engagement. Academy of Management Journal, 53(1), 107-128.

 I am not able to find this article -

Work engagement: An emerging psychological concept and its implications for organizations

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