Influence of Employee Engagement on Employee Promotion Opportunity and Performance Relationship in Developing Context: Critical Evaluation with PLS-SEM Analysis Technique

Abstract

The ready-made garment industry has significant contribution to the economic development of Bangladesh for the last few decades. Consequently, the government of the country is trying to flourish its economy through industrialization than agriculture-based initiatives. Therefore, the paper aimed to find out how the industrialization process can be accelerated through enhancing the organization’s employee performance. The study focuses on the employees’ positional advancement opportunity as an antecedent of employee performance. Additionally, how employee engagement issue influence on promotion opportunity and performance relationship is also highlighted through this study. The PLS-SEM technique is used for the analysis of data obtained from 392 employees who are working in several garment factories in Bangladesh. The study considers survey method for collecting opinions from garment employees about promotion, performance and engagement related statements. The study uncovers that employee promotion opportunity has significant influence on both employee performance and employee engagement. Further, employee engagement has significant role for increasing employee performance. Again, employee engagement partially mediates the relationship between employee promotion opportunity and employee performance. Therefore, the findings of this model are expected to be used as an approach by the practitioners and policy makers for the enhancement of employee performance of the organization in the developing context.

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