Teachers’ Understanding of Work Engagement

Abstract

This study expands the area of work engagement research instead of always relating work engagement with job satisfaction and administration demands. In this research teacher engagement is also related to other factors which may affect teachers’ satisfaction more than others, since the teachers spend most of their time with their students. This study also explore how other factors such as cultural differences can affect work engagement, especially when working in different countries. Emotional engagement in any job could be considered as the basics of work engagement despite the environment that the employee is exposed to. For example, a teacher who really finds teaching interesting will try every possible way to overcome any difficulties they face outside the classroom. This means that in our future research about work engagement, we should first check if that job was the employee’s first choice since internal factors are more important than the external ones.