Towards Identifying Dimensions of Job Engagement for Public, Private and Deemed Universities in Delhi-NCR

Abstract

The concept of engagement has been studied since decades and it is a well established fact that an engaged workforce is much loyal, productive, result oriented and has less intentions to leave the organizations. Though the concept of job engagement has its roots in academics but very few studies have been conducted on faculty especially in Indian context. This study attempts to establish the dimensionality of job engagement of faculty teaching in professional and technical institutions in India using a self constructed questionnaire. This study also presents a vast body of literature regarding engagement and its measurement scales. The study has been conducted on faculty teaching professional and technical courses in universities in Delhi-NCR. The technique of multi stage sampling has been adopted where in at the first stage the sampling was purposive in which Government, Private and Deemed universities (not managed by cooperatives) running Management and Engineering courses were selected. The study was conducted on 209 faculty members from both the courses in three types of universities, using a self constructed engagement scale and the Cronbach Alpha of the same came out to be 0.91.