Investigation of teachers' perceptions of work engagement through some variables

Zülküf Nanto and Mukadder Boydak Özan

African Educational Research Journal
Published: November 29 2020
Volume 8, Special Issue 3
Pages S124-S133
DOI: https://doi.org/10.30918/AERJ.8S3.20.079

Abstract

Increasing the energy that employees have towards their work has become an important issue today. As in every field, it has started to feel compulsory in the education sector. The work engagement is to transfer the desire and energy of the teacher to his work. It will only be possible for the teacher to feel attracted to his job in an educational atmosphere where the person is supported. For this reason, this study was carried out in order to examine the perceptions of teachers working in primary and secondary schools about work engagement. The sampling of the descriptive survey model consists of 747 teachers selected from the public elementary schools in the central district of Elazığ using the stratified sampling method. In order to create the data of the research, the “work engagement” scale was used. As a result of the research are examined, a significant difference was found between the variables of gender, branch, graduated school, seniority and age according to the opinions of teachers about the “Vigor” sub-dimension. According to the opinions of teachers belonging to the sub-dimension of “devotion”, a significant difference was found between the variables of school, seniority and age. In the “concentration” sub-dimension, a significant difference was found between the variables of branch, seniority and age. The levels of attractiveness towards their work in the schools, in which the teachers worked, resulted in a positive level.

Keywords: Work engagement, primary school, teachers.

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