MANAGING EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT IN THE REALITY OF ORGANISATIONAL CHANGES

In the reality of a free market economy, organisations constantly have to adjust to the changing conditions and environment. Organisations may develop from the inside or gain other markets via expansion, i.e. thanks to mergers or acquisitions. The aim of such actions is reduction of costs and use of new or better developed techniques or technologies, along with the experience of personnel of the merged/acquired companies. In the course of implementing organisational changes in the enterprise, the level of employee engagement may decrease due to errors in human resource management. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine the level of employee involvement during organisational changes due to the merger company and to indicate those areas that should be strengthened. The method of achieving the indicated goal was a comparative analysis own questionnaire research with the company research in previous years. As a result of the compilation of these research results, it was found that there are many significant discrepancies in the perception of various types of issues by employees (in such areas as e.g. tasks, management, performance management, employee development, work or organisation, career, cooperation) affecting the involvement in work. It has been shown that the practice of cyclical employee engagement surveys allows the company's management board to identify errors in human resource management and to eliminate them or to notice activities conducive to increasing the level of involvement, and thus consolidating or strengthening them. The conducted case study, as one of the few studies, presents a crosssectional analysis of the discussed phenomenon of employee involvement in the enterprise. Only such a long-term analysis of employees' attitudes allows them to be modelled in accordance with the goals of the organisation and the expectations of managers.