Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to study employee engagement in higher education by examining full-time non-tenure track faculty members’ perceptions at a North East US state public university.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors used semi-structured face-to-face personal interviews with 11 non-tenure track full-time university faculty. Using a phenomenological approach, thematic analysis was conducted for employee interview data. The data was further refined through first and second cycle coding. The primary eight coded clusters were further reduced to three data clusters, each representing an evolving unit of meaning.

Findings

The analysis revealed three themes relating to how full-time non-tenure track faculty experience and understand engagement: required institutional engagement, perceived necessary engagement and relational collegial engagement.

Originality/value

The study adds to the limited research available on non-tenure track faculty members within higher education organization and their perceptions of engagement.

中文翻译：

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员工敬业度：探索高等教育非终身制教师的看法

目的

本文的目的是通过检查美国东北部州立公立大学全日制非终身制教职员工的看法来研究员工对高等教育的参与度。

设计/方法/方法

作者对 11 名非终身制大学教职员工进行了半结构化的面对面个人访谈。使用现象学方法，对员工访谈数据进行了专题分析。通过第一次和第二次循环编码进一步细化数据。主要的八个编码集群进一步减少为三个数据集群，每个数据集群代表一个不断发展的意义单元。

发现

分析揭示了与全职非终身制如何跟踪教师体验和理解参与相关的三个主题：所需的机构参与、感知的必要参与和关系型大学参与。

原创性/价值

该研究增加了对高等教育组织内非终身制教职员工及其对敬业度的看法的有限研究。