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How to Increase Teacher Performance through Engagement and Work Efficacy

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  • Sorina Ioana Mișu

    (Faculty of Management, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, 010374 Bucarest, Romania)

  • Cătălina Radu

    (Faculty of Management, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, 010374 Bucarest, Romania)

  • Alecxandrina Deaconu

    (Faculty of Management, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, 010374 Bucarest, Romania)

  • Simona Toma

    (Faculty of Management, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, 010374 Bucarest, Romania)

Abstract

Work engagement, work efficacy and performance are key concepts in today’s human resources field, impacting both personal and organisational levels. However, not many studies investigate them in a core professional area: pre-university teachers. After measuring the work engagement, work efficacy and work performance variables of teachers, we identified the differences in teachers’ work engagement, work efficacy and work performance according to their seniority in education and the position of the high school in the top national rankings. Our paper’s focus is on exploring the relationship between work engagement and work performance among pre-university teachers from Romanian high schools. This relationship is analysed both directly and indirectly by including work efficacy as a mediating factor. A sample of 817 Romanian high school teachers participated in this study (questionnaire applied in April 2021). The results can lead to a better understanding of human resources behaviour, and, on this basis, to the formulating of human resource policies in the educational field.

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  • Sorina Ioana Mișu & Cătălina Radu & Alecxandrina Deaconu & Simona Toma, 2022. "How to Increase Teacher Performance through Engagement and Work Efficacy," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(16), pages 1-28, August.
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