Niveles de engagement laboral en docentes y administrativos de la Facultad de Jurisprudencia y Ciencias Políticas y Sociales de la Universidad de Cuenca, en el año 2023

Abstract

Institutions need people who are dedicated and have vigor for the tasks they have to perform to avoid compromising their physical and mental health, causing absenteeism, inadequate interpersonal relationships and low productivity at work. The objective of this research was to describe the levels of engagement of teachers and administrative staff of the Faculty of Jurisprudence and Political and Social Sciences of the University of Cuenca-Azuay, in the year 2023. The research had a quantitative approach, a descriptive scope, a non-experimental design and was cross-sectional. The population consisted of 35 participants, 26 people who make up the teaching staff of the four careers and nine people from the administrative staff of the Faculty of Jurisprudence and Political and Social Sciences. The instruments used were a sociodemographic form for the faculty's teaching and administrative staff and the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale. It was found that the faculty and administrative staff had a high level of general engagement. Likewise, in the dimensions of vigor, the very high level predominated, in dedication, the high level, and in absorption, the very high level. The dimension of vigor was higher in people with one year of service in the faculty; the dimension of dedication was higher, with a maximum score, in people with part-time work, in addition to people with one year, more than 5 and more than 20 years of service in the faculty; for the dimension of absorption, the highest score was in people with more than 20 years of service in the Faculty of Jurisprudence and Political and Social Sciences.