What is engagement?

Engagement’s more of a phenomenon than something definable, because it’s constructed by the various people who understand they are engaged.

If I asked you if you were engaged with your work, even a positive response from you would differ from a positive response from someone else. It’s socially constructed.

Engagement has several facets, including for example:

• Commitment/ participation /involvement /collaboration /cooperation / Negotiation
• Learning/Interest
• Vigour/Dedication/Absorption
• A mode of belonging/ Being included
• Coming to the office
• Round tables
• Mutuality
• Belief that people matter/ Create communities /Connect people /democracy
• Specific expertise / More capability
• Improved productivity
• Cross-project communication/Communication /Creates common languages/Information flows freely/Dialogue

Some of these facets may be the same so I'll categorise them in some way.

But what's the academic literature that I need?