Does Mattering Matter? An Empirical Study of Faculty at a Research University

• In Event: Fairmont Roundtable Session Sixteen
  In Roundtable Session: Improving Educational Organizations: Trust, Identity, Measurement, and Mattering (Table 9)

Abstract

This study examines the relationships between work mattering and outcomes among faculty at a public urban research university. Employees were surveyed about the two factors: interpersonal mattering and societal mattering, and the work outcomes of efficacy, job satisfaction, emotional burnout, and intention to leave. The purpose of the study is to identify the extent to which university employees’ feeling valued by others and doing work that matters is associated with these work outcomes, i.e., does mattering matter at work for university faculty? Using a structural equation model adapted from existing research, we find that mattering has no direct relationship to intention to leave, but its total effect mediated by efficacy, burnout and satisfaction is robust.

Authors

• Scott C. Bauer, University of Colorado - Denver
  Presenting Author

• Catherine Wilson, University of Colorado Denver
  Non-Presenting Author