Employee engagement practices have become highly recommended pills for employee or labor oriented units to perform better A fully engaged employee is high intellectual and emotionally bound with organization, feels passionately about his goal: and is committed to live by its values. This research study carried to know the outcome of employee engagement on overall performance of an organization as a research task in order to benchmark the employee engagement program for faculties of University in North Karnataka. Its observed that degree of employees’ enthusiasm to add for overall growth of organization and their eagerness to affect flexible effort to achieve responsibilities which are important to the accomplishment of organizational goals. Particularly the focal point is on employee engagement and overall performance of organization discovers the managing role to create an encouraging environment to improve employee engagement. The distinct inclusion in their work motivates improved individual act which leads to better overall performance of an organization. Even though the importance for employee engagement is rising, a lot of institutes stay behind with limited knowledge on employee engagement measurement a factors which has resulted in limited engagement of employees in their work. The research covered with methodological approach that analyzed factors of employee engagement and overall performance of organization using a descriptive   research design. A structured questionnaire was used to take the responses from 82 employees to find out the factors enabling a environment for unleashing employee engagement and measure retention factors through which they commit to encourage themselves. So, finding the need and urgency in having employee engagement practices in universities, this research aims to study and analysis the employee engagement practices in large scale organizations and the impact of employee engagement practices on the performance of the organization and the performance of its employees.

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Keywords: Employee Engagement, Employee Performance, Retention Strategy, Performance Management, organization.