This paper conceptually draws the connections between complexity theory and employee engagement. Instead of the tendency to adhere to a binary, dichotomous approach, complexity theory helps move employee engagement forward as a process that is rooted in multiplicity, intricacy, and variance. This approach provides a more sustainable future for employee engagement scholarship by reimagining the ways in which scholars investigate the phenomenon. In providing future research suggestions rooted in complexity, scholarship and practice can transition away from prescriptive, normalized processes and solutions for employee engagement to welcome various approaches that lead to more fluid and organic understanding. The goal is to set a standard of encouraging employee engagement scholars to challenge how they explore employee engagement and to welcome new and innovative ways of examining the phenomenon to provide a sustainable and enriching scholarly conversation.

本文从概念上画出了复杂性理论与员工敬业度之间的联系。复杂性理论不是坚持采用二元，二分法的趋势，而是将员工敬业度作为扎根于多样性，复杂性和差异性的过程来推动前进。通过重新构想学者们研究这种现象的方式，这种方法为员工敬业度奖学金提供了更可持续的未来。在提供扎根于复杂性的未来研究建议时，奖学金和实践可以从规范，规范化的流程和员工敬业度解决方案过渡到欢迎各种可导致更加流畅和有机理解的方法。