Employee engagement is a workplace approach designed to ensure that employees are committed to their organization's goals and values, motivated to contribute to overall organizational success, and are able at the same time to enhance their own sense of well-being. Engaged organizations have strong and authentic values, with clear evidence of trust and fairness based on mutual respect, where two way promises and commitments – between employers and staff – are understood, and fulfilled. In an attempt to evaluate the level of employee engagement in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, Bayt.com has conducted an online poll that collected responses from over 9,500 people across the region on this topic. The poll entitled the Bayt.com ‘Employee Engagement in the MENA’ poll, March 2014, revealed that more than 80% of professionals in the MENA feel engaged at their workplace. Below are additional highlights from the poll: • Employee job satisfaction is considered a top management priority to 'a great extent' by 57.1%. • 70.5% of professionals say that their manager values the skills and the contributions they make to the company, while poor performance is addressed by 80.4% of poll-takers’ companies. • 70% of poll respondents say communications channels are open in their companies and they feel they can disagree with their manager without fear of getting in trouble. • 52.2% of poll respondents say that they ‘always’ receive feedback to help improve their performance. 
