Family involvement, employee engagement and employee performance in enterprising family firms

Kuruppuge, Ravindra Hewa; Gregar, Aleš

dc.title	Family involvement, employee engagement and employee performance in enterprising family firms	en
dc.contributor.author	Kuruppuge, Ravindra Hewa
dc.contributor.author	Gregar, Aleš
dc.relation.ispartof	Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis
dc.identifier.issn	1211-8516 Scopus Sources, Sherpa/RoMEO, JCR
dc.date.issued	2017
utb.relation.volume	65
utb.relation.issue	5
dc.citation.spage	1695
dc.citation.epage	1707
dc.type	article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry Brno
dc.identifier.doi	10.11118/actaun201765051695
dc.relation.uri	https://acta.mendelu.cz/65/5/1695/
dc.subject	Employee engagement	en
dc.subject	Employee performance	en
dc.subject	Enterprising family firms	en
dc.subject	Family firms	en
dc.subject	Family involvement	en
dc.subject	Sri Lanka	en
dc.description.abstract	The study has been designed to analyze probable determinants of employee performance in family firms. A quantitative methodology was adopted. Data were collected from 113 employees from fifteen family businesses located in the Western Province in Sri Lanka. Correlation and ordinal logistic regression analysis were used to elaborate the relationships. Correlation analysis indicated that both family involvement and employee engagement correlate to employee performance. Family involvement in case of holding positions in functional and strategic levels by family members has shown no correlation to employee performance. Yet, having a family member as immediate boss/supervisor of an employee in the job has a strong correlation to employee performance. Regression analysis makes evident that almost all coefficients of the employee are negatively related to employee performance. Yet, all levels of employee engagement are significantly related to employee performance. It further shows that being the lower levels of employee engagement increases the likelihood of lower levels of employee performance. © 2017 Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry Brno. All rights reserved.	en
utb.faculty	Faculty of Management and Economics
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10563/1007807
utb.identifier.obdid	43877804
utb.identifier.scopus	2-s2.0-85042873055
utb.source	j-scopus
dc.date.accessioned	2018-04-23T15:01:45Z
dc.date.available	2018-04-23T15:01:45Z
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.rights.access	openAccess
utb.contributor.internalauthor	Kuruppuge, Ravindra Hewa
utb.contributor.internalauthor	Gregar, Aleš
utb.fulltext.affiliation	Ravindra Hewa Kuruppuge 1 , Ales Gregar 1 Department of Management and Marketing, Faculty of Management and Economics, Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Czech Republic Contact information Ravindra Hewa Kuruppuge: kuruppuge@yahoo.com Ales Gregar: gregar@fame.utb.cz
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utb.fulltext.sponsorship	Authors of this article are grateful to the Internal Grant Agency of FaME TBU No. IGA/FaME/2016/001: Enhancing Business Performance through Employees’ Knowledge Sharing for financial support to carry out this research.
utb.scopus.affiliation	Department of Management and Marketing, Faculty of Management and Economics, Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Czech Republic
utb.fulltext.projects	IGA/FaME/2016/001