Analysis of Factors Influencing Faculty Engagement in Universities in Panama: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach (Poster 16)

• In Event: AERA Poster Session Fifteen
  In Poster Session: Analysis of Factors Influencing Faculty Engagement in Universities in Panama: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach

Abstract

This non-experimental, correlational study examined the factors that influence faculty engagement through structural equation modeling. University professors in Panama completed a questionnaire that measured employee engagement, higher education job satisfaction, affective commitment, organizational culture, and employment characteristics. While the relationship between these variables has been widely explored in human resource management (HRM) research, little has been written about these relationships in the context of higher education. The resulting model estimated an acceptable fit in which the organizational culture of an HEI and the professor’s employment characteristics were positively related to job satisfaction. Job satisfaction, in turn, predicted affective commitment, and, further, employee engagement.

Authors

• Mariana Leon, Quality Leadership University
  Presenting Author

• Brad Shuck, University of Louisville
  Presenting Author

• Rodolfo Ricaño, Universidad Internacional de México
  Non-Presenting Author

• Pedro Leiva, Universidad de Chile
  Non-Presenting Author

• Merlin Patricia Grueso Hinestroza, Universidad Del Rosario
  Non-Presenting Author

• Yostin Añino, Universidad de Panamá
  Non-Presenting Author