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The Effects of Employee Engagement on Employee Turnover: A Case Study from the UAE

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Human Capital in the Middle East

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This chapter investigates whether employee engagement has an influence on the turnover of employees in the UAE. It employs qualitative research to analyze the relationship between employee engagement and three variables, namely, culture, job tenure, and the type of industry. The chapter uses the ability, motivation, and opportunity framework to explain the various relationships, addressing a scarcity of literature aimed specifically at the industries in the UAE. The findings show that employee engagement does indeed affect the level of employee turnover for a firm. Furthermore, workplace culture can have an impact on the level of engagement displayed by employees.

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  1. University of Wollongong, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Tasleem Firdous

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  1. Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

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  2. Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

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  3. Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    Yama Temouri

  4. ISM University of Management and Economics, Vilnius, Lithuania

    Wardah Qureshi

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Firdous, T. (2020). The Effects of Employee Engagement on Employee Turnover: A Case Study from the UAE. In: Pereira, V., Neal, M., Temouri, Y., Qureshi, W. (eds) Human Capital in the Middle East. Palgrave Studies in Global Human Capital Management. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42211-0_5

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