Employee Engagement and Productivity – Linking connectivity from manufacturing industry perspective

Focus on core sectors and constant economic reforms creating Indian as a hub of global business center and one of the key country for global development. Through ―Make in India‖ initiative by the government of India, manufacturing industry targeting to contribute 25% of the GDP and to create 100 million new jobs by 2022. This calls for special focus on Indian manufacturing sector and to identify the key dimensions, which are having impact to such ambitious target. Employee engagement and productivity are the two variables which can influence organizational, personal, economic and social growth of the country and needs to be understood closely. This study endeavors to understand the inter relationship between employee engagement and the productivity of the manufacturing sector. At the same time the study investigates into the interplay between the drivers of employee engagement with the drivers of productivity in the manufacturing segment.