Determinants of Work Engagement Among Teachers in the Context of Teleworking

Ciprian Obrad () and Cristina Circa
Additional contact information
Ciprian Obrad: West University of Timi?oara, Romania
Cristina Circa: West University of Timi?oara, Romania

The AMFITEATRU ECONOMIC journal, 2021, vol. 23, issue 58, 718

Abstract: In Romania, the COVID-19 pandemic has interfered with education, besides other areas, since March 2020. Schools and universities shifted from classroom to online teaching, and the education system needed to adapt to the new form of organization. The paper provides a study on how teachers from Romania dealt with professional challenges, as part of a changing education system. The research aimed to analyse the impact of professional changes on teaching in Romania, between March and June 2020 and to identify the main predictors of work engagement, in the context of teleworking. The research was performed on a sample of 400 teachers from Romania, representative for the entire population of teachers from all Romanian forms of education, with a confidence interval of 5% and a confidence level of 95%. We collected data based on scales and indicators that were validated for the Romanian context and proposed a factorial model, tested subsequently with confirmatory factorial analysis (CFA) and structural equation modelling (SEM). The results show that perceived student engagement and motivation are major determinants of work engagement in teaching.

Keywords: work engagement; teleworking; online learning; factorial analysis; structural equation modelling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C38 I20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (8)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.amfiteatrueconomic.ro/temp/Article_3031.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:aes:amfeco:v:23:y:2021:i:58:p:718

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in The AMFITEATRU ECONOMIC journal from Academy of Economic Studies - Bucharest, Romania Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Valentin Dumitru ().