Employee Wellbeing and Job Engagement of Academics in Universities

The study explored the nexus between employee well-being and job engagement of academics in universities. The study adopted analytic descriptive strategy and the target population of the study was 980 lecturers; a sample of 284 was selected through stratified sampling procedure. The data collection instrument was a structured questionnaire; the instrument was validated through content approach while the reliability of the measurement instrument was determined via Cronbach alpha internal consistency. The data were collected through online platforms and offline means. The data collected were analyzed by Process Based approach using Partial Least Square Regression with the Smart PLS software version 4. The results indicated that there was a significant positive relationship between psychological well-being and job engagement; there was a significant positive relationship between social well-being and job engagement; but there was a non-significant negative relationship between subjective well-being and job engagement and there was a significant positive relationship between workplace well-being and job engagement. In view of the findings, we concluded that employee well-being is critical to the job engagement of academics in universities and recommended that university authorities should fashion out programmes aimed at fostering the holistic well-being of staff members and performance on the job.