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Employees are generally considered as the most important resource needed for an organization to achieve its
main goals. Realization o f goals achievement heavily depends on the extent to which these employees are
engaged in their jobs and their organization. Employee engagement is a factor that contributes positively to
employee productivity and then organizational effectiveness. It reveals that a conceptual confusion exists with
regard to the meaning o f employee engagement owing to that the concept has been defined by different scholars
in different ways and also that there are several associated terms such as job satisfaction, job involvement, work
involvement, organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior which have been used in the
literature, either synonymously or non-synonymously. Further a question arises to decide whether employee
engagement is an attitude or a behavior. This paper seeks to provide a comprehensive conceptualization o f
employee engagement that results in formulating a working definition for research purposes involving the
construct, and to explore its dimensions and elements for the purpose o f measuring the construct.
