Abstract: Sustaining high performance among employees and driving their behavior towards change, resilience, commitment, proactiveness and work engagement have been identified as major challenges facing leaders and human resource management personnel in organizations. An important factor influencing such behavioural attitudes and inclinations is employee engagement. This study was carried out to determine factors influencing employee engagement and employee centric performance among 185 personnel working in various organizations, at various positions. The study identified the major factors underlined as employee commitment, readiness for change, proactiveness, behavior of resilience and employee engagement through a generation of excitement and self inspiration. The study recommends that leaders at various levels and human resource personnel should work towards facilitation of an environment and work conditions to generate drivers for work engagement.