DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS IN CORPORATE MANAGEMENT AND EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT IN RURAL DESTINATIONS
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https://doi.org/10.5937/ekoPolj2004087VKeywords:
rural destinations, employee engagement, descriptive statistics, corporate management, Fruška Gora mountainAbstract
Organizations that hope to achieve a competitive advantage through employee engagement will be most successful by incorporating and including employee engagement in the performance management process. Therefore, essence of the performance management must to be convergence to employees and establish communication with each one. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between employee engagement (assessment of employee competencies and preferences of the engagement mechanisms), and performance management process in rural destinations. In this paper, the assumption is that the employee are more engaged if they feels belonging to the organization and see the value of their work and that this can be achieved through rewards and recognition system and effective communication channels. The research was conducted on 79 employeed in the Fruška Gora National Park, Serbia.
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48. Singh, P. (2008). Job analysis for a changing world. Human Resource Management Review, 18, 87-99, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrmr.2008.03.004
49. Sparrow, P. (2008). Performance management in the U.K. In A. Varma, P. S. Budhwar, & A. DeNisi (Eds.), Performance management systems: A global perspective (pp. 131-146). New York: Routledge,
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52. Tierney, P., & Farmer, S. M. (2002). Creative self-effcacy: Its potential antecedents and relationship to creative performance. Academy of Management Journal, 45, 1137-1138. doi:https://doi.org/10.5465/3069429
53. Turnley, W. H., Bolino, M. C., Lester, S. W., & Bloodgood, J. M. (2003). The impact of psychological contract fulfllment on the performance of in-role and organizational citizenship behaviors. Journal of Management, 29, 187-206. doi: 10.1111/j.1744-6570.2007.00087.x
54. Vujko, A. Plavša, J. (2010). Netvorking of Fruška gora lakes tourist offer through system of cyclepaths – case study Sot, Bruje and Moharač, Scientifc and technical journal in tourism Tourism, 15(1), 1-10. doi:10.5937/Turizam1101001V
55. Allen, L. R., Long, P. T., Perdue, R. R., Kieselbach, S. (1988). The Impact of Tourism Development on Residents Perceptions of Community Life, Journal of Travel Research, 27(1), 16–21.
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Vunjak, N. M., Vujko, A., Dragosavac, M., & Antonijević, T. N. (2020). DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS IN CORPORATE MANAGEMENT AND EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT IN RURAL DESTINATIONS. Ekonomika Poljoprivrede, 67(4), 1087–1101. https://doi.org/10.5937/ekoPolj2004087V
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