Unraveling the relationship between personality traits, perceived organizational support, and work engagement: a study of academic staff in Malaysia

Academic staff constitutes the backbone of the academic institutions. The current worrying dwindling of work engagement among the academic staff has created the need for this study. The present study tried to determine the factors (resources) that might contribute to the work engagement of academic...

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Main Author:	Puspu Nanthinni, Ramasamy
Format:	Thesis
Language:	eng eng
Published:	2023
Subjects:	HD58.9 Organizational Effectiveness.
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spelling	my-uum-etd.108962024-01-18T06:22:31Z Unraveling the relationship between personality traits, perceived organizational support, and work engagement: a study of academic staff in Malaysia 2023 Puspu Nanthinni, Ramasamy Ismail, Edora School of Business Management School of Business Management HD58.9 Organizational Effectiveness. Academic staff constitutes the backbone of the academic institutions. The current worrying dwindling of work engagement among the academic staff has created the need for this study. The present study tried to determine the factors (resources) that might contribute to the work engagement of academic staff. The main objective of this study was to examine the relationship between the big five personality traits, perceived organizational support, and work engagement among academic staff in Malaysia. Data was collected from 390 academic staff of higher education institutions in Malaysia using a convenience sampling method. This research was conducted by applying a quantitative correlational research design and a cross-sectional survey method. The Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES), Big Five Inventory (BFI), and Survey of Perceived Organizational Support (SPOS) were used to measure work engagement, personality traits, and perceived organizational support respectively. Both descriptive and Multiple Regression analyses were used to examine the data. The results showed that the level of work engagement among academic staff was average, creating a cause for concern. This study also found that perceived organizational support was significantly and positively related to work engagement and its three dimensions. Of the five personality traits, only openness to experience was positively and significantly related to work engagement and its three dimensions. Agreeableness was not significantly related to work engagement. The personality traits conscientiousness, extraversion, and neuroticism demonstrated a significant relationship with only one of the dimensions of work engagement which is vigor. Moreover, the results also revealed that perceived organizational support and openness to experience were the strongest predictors of work engagement and its dimensions. The results of this study suggest that higher education institutions should focus on hiring candidates with certain personality traits and increasing organizational support to achieve a highly engaged academic workforce. 2023 Thesis https://etd.uum.edu.my/10896/ https://etd.uum.edu.my/10896/1/Deposit%20permission_828261.pdf text eng staffonly https://etd.uum.edu.my/10896/2/s828261-01.pdf text eng public other masters Universiti Utara Malaysia
institution	Universiti Utara Malaysia
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advisor	Ismail, Edora
topic	HD58.9 Organizational Effectiveness.
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description	Academic staff constitutes the backbone of the academic institutions. The current worrying dwindling of work engagement among the academic staff has created the need for this study. The present study tried to determine the factors (resources) that might contribute to the work engagement of academic staff. The main objective of this study was to examine the relationship between the big five personality traits, perceived organizational support, and work engagement among academic staff in Malaysia. Data was collected from 390 academic staff of higher education institutions in Malaysia using a convenience sampling method. This research was conducted by applying a quantitative correlational research design and a cross-sectional survey method. The Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES), Big Five Inventory (BFI), and Survey of Perceived Organizational Support (SPOS) were used to measure work engagement, personality traits, and perceived organizational support respectively. Both descriptive and Multiple Regression analyses were used to examine the data. The results showed that the level of work engagement among academic staff was average, creating a cause for concern. This study also found that perceived organizational support was significantly and positively related to work engagement and its three dimensions. Of the five personality traits, only openness to experience was positively and significantly related to work engagement and its three dimensions. Agreeableness was not significantly related to work engagement. The personality traits conscientiousness, extraversion, and neuroticism demonstrated a significant relationship with only one of the dimensions of work engagement which is vigor. Moreover, the results also revealed that perceived organizational support and openness to experience were the strongest predictors of work engagement and its dimensions. The results of this study suggest that higher education institutions should focus on hiring candidates with certain personality traits and increasing organizational support to achieve a highly engaged academic workforce.
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title	Unraveling the relationship between personality traits, perceived organizational support, and work engagement: a study of academic staff in Malaysia
title_short	Unraveling the relationship between personality traits, perceived organizational support, and work engagement: a study of academic staff in Malaysia
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Unraveling the relationship between personality traits, perceived organizational support, and work engagement: a study of academic staff in Malaysia

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