Assessing the Association of Employee Engagement with affective Organizational Commitment in Higher Education Institutions

In organizations, employee and management are in a symbiotic relationship mediated by good employee engagement initiatives. Several employee engagement studies have been done on the corporate sector and now there is a need for sector specific employee engagement practices. Keeping this thought in mind education sector has been selected for the present study. The engagement of academic faculty is considered to have an enormous effect on the success of the student and the overall development of the society. The article attempts to analyse the relationship of employee engagement with affective commitment among teaching workforce employed in higher education institutions. For the study cross-sectional survey design was usedwith a sample of 360 faculties and data was analysed with Chi-square statistical test. The findings of the article concluded a positive significant association of employee engagement with affective commitment. Implications are also discussed.