A Study of ISA Engagement at an Autonomous Management Education and Research Institute, Madhya Pradesh

Abstract

Employee engagement has remained a major concept in HRD studies, whether it is related to OCBs, task performance, or climate. Different measures have been developed to estimate employee engagement level. One of the recent scales developed is the ISA engagement scale by Soane, et.al.(2012), and it has three facets of employee engagement i.e. intellectual engagement, social engagement and affective engagement. This model was built on the theory of employee engagement by Kahn (1990).  The ISA engagement scale has been used in the present research to study the degree of employee engagement at various levels in an autonomous management education institute. Various levels were studied on the basis of job category, age and experience using simple statistical calculation. Among all the three facets of ISA engagement scale, social engagement was found to be low among less experienced and lower age groups in this institute. A slight difference was observed in the average degree of employee engagement on the basis of job tenure. This study contributes to further research done on the third facet i.e. social engagement.