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Relationship Between Employee Engagement and Performance : A Case Study of Health Workers in Tanzania

Year	2014
Volume/Issue/Review Month	Vol. - VII \| Issue I \| January - June
Title	Relationship Between Employee Engagement and Performance : A Case Study of Health Workers in Tanzania
Authors	Santap Sanhari Mishra
Broad area	Relationship Between Employee Engagement and Performance : A Case Study of Health Workers in Tanzania
Abstract	Employee engagement is a mere psychological concept dealing with employee attitudes and behaviours, which in turn encompass job satisfaction, organisational commitment etc. There is no dearth of literature regarding the employee engagement. Many big organizations have their own research regarding this as effective employee engagement is a vital input for delivering best products/services with better cost structure inculcating up dated technologies. Many organizations; public or private treat it as a way to take competitive advantage over others. In a growing economy of Tanzania, a country of East African Community (EAC), employee engagement holds some ground as employees’ commitment is required to lift a nation. But irony is that, it is a highly neglected area more particularly in governmental sectors. In this line, this study seeks to develop and examine a relationship of health workers’ engagement with their work and performance. The country is facing with the menace of HIV/AIDS. So mainly the health workers working in this field are taken into consideration. A questionnaire tool developed by Healthcare Improvement Project of United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has been used to collect opinion from the respondents.
Description	Providing quality health care in developing countries is an audacious task due to the dearth of qualified health professionals. Fifty-seven countries have been identified as human resources for health crisis countries (WHO, 2006). With regard to qualified
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