Assessing the effect of personal and job resources on work engagement of university teachers

Abstract

This study was conducted to analyze the impact of personal resources and job resources on job engagement of university teachers. Due to fierce competition, work engagement is vital subject for organizations. Research indicated that personal and job resources play substantial role in predicting work engagement. Several studies conducted in Pakistan have proved that employee's work engagement can be enhanced by better job and personal resources. But these studies have limited generalizability due to contextual specificity. Therefore, to achieve intended objective of this study, the questionnaire was administrated among 200 university teachers of three types of universities, 160 questionnaires were returned and 112 respondents' data were used for final analysis. The data was analyzed by using the SPSS and Smart PLS 3.0 software. The result indicated that out of four hypotheses, three hypothesis supported the relationship while one hypothesis did not support the relationship. This study possesses few limitations and also offers recommendations for future research. (C) 2018 The Authors. Published by IASE.