Exploring Faculty Engagement: An Empirical Investigation in Higher Education Institutions.

Faculty engagement plays a pivotal role in shaping the quality of education and institutional success in highereducation, yet its dynamic and influencing factors remain underexplored, underscoring the critical need for empiricalinvestigations into how engagement strategies can enhance academic outcomes and organizational sustainability. Thisstudy looks at faculty participation in Indian higher education institutions, with an emphasis on the impact of differentleadership styles and service orientations. The goal of this study is to determine how different leadership methods, suchas transformation, transaction, and servant leadership, affect the dimensions of faculty involvement, which includesemotive, cognitive, and behavioral components. Using IBM SPSS (Ver 22), a SEM analysis was conducted to ascertainthe link in between various components of faculty engagement. The results showed a positive link among serviceorientation and the values that a faculty member holds along with the goals that an educational institution has. One ofthe key findings is that adopting supportive leadership models improved the faculty’s engagement with the institution. Onthe other hand, the research offers ways in which policies and leadership structures within the educational sector can beimproved.