STUDY OF IMPACT OF JOB DESIGN ON EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT: A CASE STUDY OF ENERGY TRANSMISSION UTILITY IN PUNE REGION

Highly engaged manpower can increase innovation, productivity, and performance when their jobs are well designed. Job design represents the delineation of task responsibility as dictated by organizational strategy, technology and structure. This study explores the impact of job design on employee engagement at Power Sector of State Government undertaking in Pune region. The study considers the relationship between variables of job design which include skill variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy and feedback and employee engagement. The study employed crosssectional survey design. Stratified sampling technique was used to get the sample size. Questionnaire was used to elicit information from respondents. Pearson correlation and Binomial test was adopted as a statistical tool for data analysis. Based on the data from the survey investigation of employees across three levels of employees of targeted Power sector in Pune. The results revealed that there is a significant positive relationship between job design and employee engagement. The study therefore recommends that management need to pay more attention to job design, by creating more opportunity for workers to contribute.