Faculty Engagement and Student Success

Objective: Applying thirteen elements of employee engagement to engaging business faculty, this paper explains how engaging faculty contributes to improved student success and increased trust.Methods: The paper explains the nature of engagement and its critical importance as a relationship-based means of motivating interpersonal commitment and performance.Results: Citing the Gallup Press research about employee engagement, the paper defines those elements, explains how they contribute to student success and clarifies how they build trust by increasing faculty engagement.Conclusions: The paper also identifies six action steps that administrators, deans, and department heads can undertake to promote student success and build trust.