An empirical study of employee engagement among female faculty members of higher educational institutions in Sikkim

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• Monika Payal ^*

Engaged employees have the potential to significantly affect the productivity of the organization and additionally ensures retention of employees. According to Gallup, a global research and consulting firm, engaged employees, work harder, create more innovations, have lower absentee rates, require less supervision, improve customer satisfaction and generate more revenue. However, juxtaposed to expectations, there are numerous studies that prove that many of today’s teachers in higher education are dissatisfied with their jobs, or to put in other words they are not engaged. And gender discrimination and compulsions of family makes things even worse for female faculty members.

There is a research gap regarding engagement of female faculties in higher educational institutions in Sikkim. The present study is aimed to find out the nature of employee engagement of higher educational institutions through different dimension and density of engagement/disengagement levels. A field study was conducted and the collected data was analyzed by using Frequency Distribution, Mean, Standard Deviation and Correlation (Karl Pearson correlation).This study is significant in providing higher educational institutions management the vital data they need to create actionable plans for improvement, so they can offer their female faculties and their students a thriving, engaging campus culture.