Abstract

Author:
Briliant Vincent Tan, Kelvin Cang, Yunita Marcella, Keumala Nurul Hajjati, Daniel Lie, Roland Bonggo Pribadi

Doi: 10.26480/mbmj.02.2022.84.87

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Coronavirus 2019 causes companies in the manufacturing sector to adopt work from office working system. With that, it requires agile, focused, and highly dedicated employees to sustain its business. This study aims to depict the employees’ work engagement level at PT. X (one of the manufacturing companies in Riau, Indonesia). This study was a quantitative and non-experimental research which ran for three weeks in March 2022. Moreover, using a convenience sampling technique, this study managed to recruit 104 employees at PT. X to be its participants. Work engagement was then measured using Utrecht Work Engagement Scale with five points Likert Scale. The result indicated that the level of work engagement for employees at PT. X was high (M= 3.87). Furthermore, an independent t-test suggested that the employees who were born in the year 1965-1985 (generation X) significantly more engaged than generation Y (born in the year 1986-2000, t= 2.363, p< 0.05). This result aids the management of PT. X to think of various ways to maintain or even enhance their employees’ work engagement.