Comparative Study of Work Engagement among Private and Government-Owned Corporation Company: An Empirical Study across Plantation Companies in Indonesia

Abstract

This research is part of basic research that aims to compare work engagement in terms of organizational justice and organizational culture in Government-Owned Corporation Company (BUMN) plantations and private plantation. This study seeks to investigate the differences in work engagement among the two different sectors of plantation companies. There are 759 subjects involved consisting of 371 employees from various BUMN plantations and 388 employees from several national private plantations The Utrech Work Engagement Scale is used to measure the level of employees’ work engagement. Data is processed using multilevel model analysis. The result of this analysis showed that employees' work engagement in both sectors are relatively the same and not significantly different. Furthermore, the company only contributed 4% of workers engagement. The most variation is in the employees themselves, which is 96% that require further investigation.

Keywords

work engagement, employee, plantation company, BUMN, private sector

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DOI : https://doi.org/10.32698/GCS-PSSHERS340