EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT OF FACULTIES IN SELECT HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTES IN SOUTH INDIA

human resource management

The indian education industry is growing by leaps and bounds. India in trying to improve its global standing in both technical and non technical higher education is creating more IITs and IIMs to meet the growing demand based on rise in population. The demand for good credible faculties to join these colleges is there but the dearth of qualified faculties with requisite industrial experience is putting a burden on existing faculties . People with qualifications from good institutes and industry experience,due to huge difference in salary structure in the industry and academia till now have stayed away from academics. So existing faculties have always faced the brunt of being burdened with teaching multiple subjects and handling administrative roles. This has caused huge burnout among them causing engagement issues. In order to be successful an institute should know what makes it faculties happy ,what they want and how to retain them..The present paper is based on empirical work to find out current engagement levels among existing staff of selecthigher educational institutes in select colleges of south india. They were evaluated on seven sub scales viz: measuring hygiene factors, policy factors, motivational factors, people factors, self related factors, manager related factors, organization related factors. Data analysis was done on various independent parameters such as gender, age, work experience with the above mentioned - engagement factors. The objective of the study is to measure engagement level, investigate the factors which contribute to the retention of staff and to understand the major challenges in retaining the faculties in higher education. The results showed positive connection between conducive work environment and engaged workforce.

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