Employee engagement and circular economy: a SLR and bibliometric review

The introduction of the circular economy idea in a worldwide setting is the main topic of this study. It is widely understood that industrial organizations that want to tackle sustainability concerns must adopt a circular economy (CE) approach. But the change has come slowly. Enhancing relationships with staff members, interacting with them thoroughly, and raising public knowledge of concerns like resource conservation, health-related precautions, and ecosystem preservation may all help to encourage this shift. The shift is fueled by employee involvement; however, little is known about employee engagement strategies in the context of corporate ethics. Therefore, this article aims to determine who those employees are and how they can interact with their employers while including CE in sustainability initiatives. The dimensions database was utilized to analyze the patterns. Bibliometric and systematic literature review (SLR) techniques were applied. Vosviewer, Orange, and Biblioshiny were the data visualization and analysis programs. A dataset spanning the years from 2015 to 2024 is used in the study. The PRISMA framework used for SLR, the annual scientific production, average citation per year, the most relevant authors, the production of authors over time, author productivity through Lotka law, author’s local impact by H Index, the most pertinent affiliation, the output of affiliations over time, the most cited countries, the most globally cited document, and the collaborative world map will all be further explored by Biblioshiny in this study. Vosviewer explored a diagram and table of the author’s collaboration network and a visualization of the author’s collaboration network. Orange software explored cluster analysis, world cloud, extraction of keywords, and word count. This three software are specifically used integrated in none of the studies published earlier but the researcher used them to show great clarity of data for different aspects. This research offers factual data on how businesses encourage staff members to apply CE to their sustainability initiatives. The report emphasizes that companies must transition from linear to circular employee involvement and resource transfers. This engagement may be attained by extending with whom, expanding on what, and elevating employee engagement levels.