Factors leading to faculty engagement: a comparative study regarding two private universities one in the U.S. and one in Thailand

dc.contributor.author Watana Vinitwatanakhun
dc.date.accessioned 2016-06-10T09:13:40Z
dc.date.available 2016-06-10T09:13:40Z
dc.date.issued 2010-01
dc.description.abstract This study examines the factors leading to Faculty Engagement through two private Universities, one in the U.S. and one in Thailand. The underlying focus of this study is to identify related factors that affect Faculty Engagement in order to boost faculty's morale, enhance performance and reduce the turnover to some extent. Winning Faculty Engagement gives universities competitive advantage. Progressive administrators should leverage engagement-enhancing practices as a way to foster faculty performance and, in turn, the overall performance of the university. The nine factors are Culture and Values, Common Purpose, Communication and Cooperation, Relationship with Administrators, My Team, My Job, Learning and Development, Performance and Feedback, and Reward and Recognition These factors were examined as independent variables. The result of the Independent Sample t-Test of two Universities indicates that Dominican University of California (DUC) and Assumption University (AU) are different in four factors: communication and cooperation, learning and development, performance and feedback, and reward and recognition. Multiple-regression model was conducted to identify the most consecutive significant influence factors. In summary, three out of nine factors for DUC and four out of nine factors for AU demonstrated statistically significant relationships with Faculty Engagement. The Correlations Analysis has shown that all nine independent variables were significantly related. This study has found that job satisfaction (meaning at work), reward and recognition (being valued and involved), having a good relationship with administrator and common purposes, and learning and development in a conducive working environment can lead to a high level of engagement and performance amongst all groups of faculty. en_US
dc.format.extent 13 pages en_US
dc.format.mimetype application/pdf en_US
dc.identifier.citation Proceedings of the 2010 Hawaii International Conference on Education . Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A., (January 7-10, 2010), 1-13 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://repository.au.edu/handle/6623004553/17919
dc.language.iso eng en_US
dc.subject Faculty engagement en_US
dc.subject Culture and values en_US
dc.subject Common purpose en_US
dc.subject Communication and cooperation en_US
dc.subject Relationship with administrators en_US
dc.subject My team en_US
dc.subject My job en_US
dc.subject Learning and development en_US
dc.subject Performance and feedback en_US
dc.subject Reward and recognition en_US
dc.title Factors leading to faculty engagement: a comparative study regarding two private universities one in the U.S. and one in Thailand en_US
dc.type Text en_US
mods.genre Proceeding Paper en_US
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