Why Employee Engagement is the Real Bottleneck (297 employees analyzed)

Just finished analyzing 297 employees over 4 time points and the results are interesting 📊

I expected to find that support matters for engagement. And it does—but not in the way most HR teams think.

The numbers:
✓ Social support: 4.08/5
✓ Organizational citizenship: 4.09/5
✗ Engagement: 3.52/5 ← the gap

So employees feel supported, they want to contribute, they're emotionally stable. But they're not engaged in their actual work.

Used mediation analysis to understand the pathway: support doesn't directly drive commitment. It works through engagement first. Which means if engagement is low, support alone won't fix retention 🔍

Everything is fully documented in my GitHub: github.com/RicardoPad/People-Analytics

✓ Full Jupyter notebook with code
✓ Methodology: factor analysis, reliability testing (Cronbach's alpha 0.80-0.87), mediation modeling
✓ Findings and business recommendations
✓ Dataset (anonymized)

Curious what others are seeing in their data on this. Is engagement the actual bottleneck in your organizations? 🤔

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Source: Dev.to