Unveiling the link between organizational commitment, professional self-esteem, and work engagement of Filipino faculty members in state universities and colleges

Abstract

Employees’ commitment serves as the backbone of every organization and their unfathomable allegiance equates to success and future endeavors. Loyal employees tend to do their work with dedication, innovative in creating new ideas and always going the extra mile. They will devote their time and effort to attaining the vision and mission of their organization. Thus, this descriptive-correlational research design determined the relationship between organizational commitment, professional self-esteem, and work engagement among Filipino faculty members of State Universities and Colleges. The respondents of the study were 251 faculty members from the State Universities and Colleges in the Philippines. Simple Random Sampling identified the respondents of the study. Standardized research instruments were employed in this study. The data were gathered through an online survey. The findings revealed that the respondents’ level of organizational commitment in terms of affective, continuance and normative are relatively high. Likewise, the assessed level of professional self-esteem of the respondents in terms of satisfaction, knowledge development, commitment, adaptation, and communication are generally very high. Similarly, the work engagement levels of the respondents in terms of vigor, dedication, and absorption are all extremely high. The findings revealed that there is a significant relationship between organizational commitment, professional self-esteem, and work engagement among faculty members; hence, the null hypotheses were rejected. Therefore, it can be justified that satisfaction singly predicts work engagement, satisfaction, and knowledge development as sub-factors of professional self-esteem both explain work engagement, and satisfaction, knowledge development, and affective commitment in combination channels work engagement.