Recession and Employee Engagment

My article I found was on how the recession is affecting employees. Researchers at Southern Arkansas University and University of Arkansas have created a model backed on data collected in 2009. It found that job satisfaction is impacted by many different things. Rewards/Salary is a large portion of the article. As employees become more worried about financial issues it shows that commitment and engagement with the company are all affected detrimentally. The employee becomes so w orried that they become less engaged with the company. This is a double edged sword because they are worried about their job but the stress of finances reduces their productivity in the job thus reducing how well the company is doing.

http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2010/12/01/how-to-avoid-employee-depression-in-a-recession