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 Volume 5, Issue 11 (November 2018), Pages: 100-109

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 Original Research Paper

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

 Author(s): Sanober Salman Shaikh 1, *, Urooj Talpur 2, Faiz Muhammad Khuwaja 3, Naveeda K. Katper 1

 Affiliation(s):

 1IBA, University of Sind, Jamshoro, Pakistan
 2Department of Economics, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan
 3Institute of Business Administration, Sukkur IBA University, Sukkur, Pakistan

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2018.11.015

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 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. 

 © 2018 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Personal resources, Job resources, Work arrangement, University, Teachers

 Article History: Received 22 June 2018, Received in revised form 10 September 2018, Accepted 18 September 2018

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2018.11.015

 Citation:

 Shaikh SS, Talpur U, and Khuwaja FM et al. (2018). Assessing the effect of personal and job resources on work engagement of university teachers. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 5(11): 100-109

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 http://www.science-gate.com/IJAAS/2018/V5I11/Shaikh.html

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