Predicting Faculty Member’s Work Engagement in Indonesia: Testing the Role of Optimism, Perceived Organizational Support and Self-efficacy

Aditya Nanda Priyatama, Muhamad Zainudin, Seger Handoyo

2018

Abstract

One of the influential human resources on the quality development of higher education in Indonesia is the faculty member. A faculty member’s role, is to achieve the objective of the national education—to educate the nation and improve the quality of cultured and civilized Indonesians. A faculty member’s contribution for the higher education in Indonesia becomes important if it is done effectively with the appropriate behavior. Not only in the quantity, but also on the direction of the effort, the characteristics within the faculty member, the effort or willingness to complete a task, and many other things supported by the higher education institution becomes significantly meaningful for the success of a faculty member’s performance. Therefore, each faculty member has to identify each of their responsibility, performance, and be able to measure their own success indicators. One of the factors that may improve the performance of an organization is through looking at how far the faculty members’ engagement is. A number of studies related to engagement are the perceived organizational support and optimism. This study aimed at seeing some psychological constructs related to the perception of organizational supports and optimism has an influence on faculty member’s engagement by using self-efficacy mediator variable on a state university’s faculty members in Surakarta. The sample used in this research are 393 faculty members of Universitas Sebelas Maret Surakarta. Data analysis used Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) with Lisrel 8.70 program. The results of the analysis showed a fit model and there was a significant influence on the perceived organizational support and optimism on faculty members’ engagement by the mediation of self-efficacy. This indicated that self-efficacy was significant mediator to the perception of organizational support and optimism with faculty members’ engagement. Thus, self-efficacy became essential in improving faculty members’ engagement. This study affirmed self-efficacy as significant mediator in improving faculty members’ engagement to organization

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Priyatama A., Zainudin M. and Handoyo S. (2018). Predicting Faculty Member’s Work Engagement in Indonesia: Testing the Role of Optimism, Perceived Organizational Support and Self-efficacy.In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Psychology in Health, Educational, Social, and Organizational Settings - Volume 1: ICP-HESOS, ISBN 978-989-758-435-0, pages 323-329. DOI: 10.5220/0008588903230329

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icp-hesos18,
author={Aditya Nanda Priyatama and Muhamad Zainudin and Seger Handoyo},
title={Predicting Faculty Member’s Work Engagement in Indonesia: Testing the Role of Optimism, Perceived Organizational Support and Self-efficacy},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Psychology in Health, Educational, Social, and Organizational Settings - Volume 1: ICP-HESOS,},
year={2018},
pages={323-329},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008588903230329},
isbn={978-989-758-435-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Psychology in Health, Educational, Social, and Organizational Settings - Volume 1: ICP-HESOS,
TI - Predicting Faculty Member’s Work Engagement in Indonesia: Testing the Role of Optimism, Perceived Organizational Support and Self-efficacy
SN - 978-989-758-435-0
AU - Priyatama A.
AU - Zainudin M.
AU - Handoyo S.
PY - 2018
SP - 323
EP - 329
DO - 10.5220/0008588903230329