Employee Engagement for Sustainable Organizations: Keyword Analysis Using Social Network Analysis and Burst Detection Approach

Woocheol Kim, Gohar Feroz Khan, Jacob Wood and Muhammad Tariq Mahmood
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Woocheol Kim: School of Liberal Arts & HRD, Korea University of Technology and Education, Cheonan 31253, Korea
Gohar Feroz Khan: Department of Business Administration, Keimyung University, Daegu 42601, Korea
Muhammad Tariq Mahmood: School of Computer Science and Engineering, Korea University of Technology and Education, Cheonan 31253, Korea

Sustainability, 2016, vol. 8, issue 7, 1-11

Abstract: The issue of sustainability is a vital long-term goal for organizations and as such has formed the basis of much academic research over the last two decades. Organizational sustainability is defined as the ability for an organization to accomplish a range of economic, environmental, and human performance objectives. As one of the most studied topics in organizational science, employee engagement at work is seen as a critical component to achieving sustainable organizational success. In order to better understand the employee engagement discourse, this study examined the keywords that appear in the titles and abstract of the employee engagement research domain using the burst detection and social network analysis techniques. A total of 1406 employee engagement relevant articles that were published from 1990 to 2015 were included and investigated in the study. The results revealed the fading, emerging, and central themes within the employee engagement domain.

Keywords: employee engagement; keyword analysis; burst detection; social network analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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