Employee engagement in HR analytical systems

Employee engagement is an important resource for the development of modern organizations and enterprises. Effective management of employee engagement leads to an increase in labour productivity, achievement of goals and sustainable development of the managed object. Despite the considerable accumulated domestic and foreign research on employee engagement as a factor of growth and economic efficiency, many areas relating engagement diagnostics and assessment of the relation between engagement and results of financial and economic development remain understudied. In a digital economy, personnel knowledge and competences are recognized as a strategic resource for the development, which mainstreams research in the area of employee engagement and assessment of its impact on development processes and results. It is possible to assess engagement objectively and measure its resource potential by using HR analytics. HR analytics is a system of mathematical, statistical and heuristic methods for assessing, forecasting and decision-making aimed at developing competitive advantages of personnel, and increasing labor productivity and economic efficiency of an enterprise. The purpose of the article is a theoretical and methodological substantiation and practical use of employee engagement diagnostics indicators in the system of HR analytics. The article uses methods of engagement research, as well as economic, statistical, sociological, psychological tools of HR analytics. The outcome of the article is a practically applicable technique of employee engagement estimation and research of its interrelation with indicators of economic efficiency of enterprise development. Based on the received results, it is possible to draw a conclusion about the necessity to enhance employee engagement in order to create conditions for sustainable development and growth of economic efficiency of enterprises.