Employee Engagement Strategies And Employee Performance: A Case Of Kenya Medical Research Institute- Wellcome Trust Research Programme-kilifi County

Employees are the most important resource in an organization. High performing organizations have remained focused on their employee feedback and thus, have achieved significant business results through enhanced levels of employee engagement. This implies that the organizational success is dependent on human resource and, attractive and competitive organizations constantly work towards increasing the value of their human resource through employee engagement strategies.  Employee engagement is therefore done to bring about a situation in which the employee by free choice has an intrinsic desire to work in the best interest of the organization. Employees who are well-engaged give organizations better competitive advantage including higher productivity and lower employee turnover. This study intends to investigate the effect of employee engagement strategies and performance within the Kenya Medical Research Institute-Wellcome Trust Research Programme (KWTRP) being the case study. This study will be guided by the following objectives: to establish the effect of employee compensation, to find out the effect of the work environment, to assess how training influences performance and to establish how employee involvement influence performance. The study will be anchored by the following theories; three-component theory of engagement and resource-based view theory. The research design will use a descriptive survey where 791 members of staff at the KWTRP will participate. The study will use primary data where self-administered questionnaires will be used to collect the primary data used for the research. Descriptive statistics such as means and standard deviation will be used to analyze the data. The data will be ordered, coded and analyzed using SPSS.