Work Engagement among Employees and Its Relationship with Work Units’ Performance of a Higher Education Institution

Higher level of work engagement brings people to become more productive, vigorous, dedicated and enthusiastic to perform duties and responsibilities as part of the dynamic educational institution. This study aimed to determine the profile of the respondents in terms of age, gender and length of service in the university; to determine the level of work engagement in terms of vigor, dedication and absorption; to test the differences on the level of respondents’ work engagement when they are grouped according to profile; to determine the overall employee performance of Colleges and support services and to analyze the relationship between work engagement and work unit’s performance. Descriptive type of research method was utilized in the study. The standardized instrument of Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES) was used to measure work engagement. Results showed that the school employees have high work engagement in terms of vigor, dedication and absorption with highly satisfied performance evaluation rating. Married employees are more dedicated to work due to their matured role and responsibilities over their families. Employees belong to age bracket with more than 40 years have higher engagement towards work due to the level of their expertise in carrying out various tasks everyday compared to those young and middle age employees. There are also employees with high level of dedication towards work which is not being translated or rated to high performance.