Well-being and work engagement: teachers’ professional advancement and how to manage it over time

Abstract

Abstract. The topic of the manuscripts focused on wellbeing connected with work area. Authors discusses the process of work and commitment as categories, which may be used in personal growth of teachers management. Paper theoretically is based on organizational positive psychology and raises a subject of well-being in the hedonistic and eudaimonistic subject of matter and professional commitment category (at organization and work) as a source of life satisfaction.In order to examine relationships between the wellbeing, the commitment to work or the organization and the professional development the study was conducted. The study group consist of 129 teachers , and following tools were used: An UWES Questionnaire was used for examinations (Ultrecht Work Engagement Scale, Schaufelie and Bakker, 2010), Questionnaire of the Welfare in the work situation (KDSP) and Affective Continuance, and Normative Commitment Scales (Bańka, Bazińska, Wołowska, 2002).Results showed a positive connection between the welfare at work and with engagement at work and the organization and it is not linked with the duration of the professional career. Moreover research showed positive connection between the commitment to work and the commitment to the organization and it is not linked with the length of the work at the given institution. Results of research can be used in planning education operations for the forming developmental worldwide society.