Analysis and Recommendation of Employee Engagement in PT. TI Indonesia

Danone entered Indonesia for the first time, in 1998 when joined with PT. TI which produces water. The brands under PT. TI are Aqua, Mizone, and VIT. To prepare future leaders in key positions from internal and also to increase company branding for the fresh graduates, PT. TI is design Management Trainee under the Danone Group Indonesia. Management Trainee is an accelerated career program which contained to have value and culture same as the company, so the candidate can bring the company to the appropriate business.
Management Trainee PT. TI begin from 2010. Over Management Trainee program, the HR division that serves to regulate the process of Management Trainee PT. TI is experiencing problem that is lacking of employee engagement, the detail are: there is a gap between the expectations of the company with the reality on the number of trainees who endure, the large number trainees who resign in Management Trainee program, and the impact of the resign trainees in the process of completion Management Trainee causes improvement projects unfinished and could hamper the development of the company.
This research use qualitative method to find the root cause from these problem with using standardize open ended interview to employee of PT. TI who was recruited by the Management Trainee program and has been work at least 2 years. Standardize open ended interview has structured in term of the wording of the questions, always asked identical question, but the responses are open-ended. The result of interview uses coding method to analysis the root cause. Coding is a method to classify the information from all respondents with the same variable, then going into the parameters that have been determined. After coding, it show factors that make employee didn’t engage in the company, there are: uneven rotation method, lack of compensation given, and uneven knowledge mentor to the mentoring process
Therefore, this research suggest to PT. TI to rotate trainees during the MT program, change the structure of compensation, and create mentoring workshop. Within applying these suggestions is expected the trainees more engage to the company. So, the company’s goal to prepare the future leaders from the internal through Management Trainee program can be achieved.