1Research Scholar, Centre for Management Studies, North Eastern Regional Institute of Science & Technology, Nirjuli, Arunachal Pradesh
2Director, National Institute of Rural Development & Panchayat Raj, North Eastern Regional Centre, Guwahati, Assam
Online published on 2 September, 2019.
India has the most effective and efficient workforce across the world. The scope for improvement in the technicalworkforce is vast and needs effectiveintegration. Arunachal Pradesh isone of the North Eastern states of India, has been committed to promote friendlyacademic ambiance and inculcate good practicesin the Higher Educational institutions of the State. Since 1996, the Directorate of Higher and Technical Education, Government of Arunachal Pradesh, has taken enormous efforts in technical education to get an excellent grip on the knowledge economy. Work performance is a significant issue facing contemporary education theorists and practitioners. Human resource professionals and management had significantly identified the concept of employee/work engagement as the confident, active psychological work-related state of mind that leads employees to invest themselves physically, emotionally and cognitively actively. Organizational commitment is very widely researched studies in the field of organizational behavior. Organizational/Employee commitment to several desirable positive and behavioraloutcomesaligned with the organizational goals and successful performance. Job satisfaction relates employee satisfaction to the feelings and attitudes of people towards their jobs and different aspects of their jobs (Spector, 1997). He also states that there are two antecedents of job satisfaction, i.e., job-setting characteristics, and individual/personal characteristics. Studies reveal that Work engagement Job satisfaction and Affective commitment plays a vital role in the stimulation of positive work behaviors and outcomes and employee well-being. The present study is carried out to find out the mediating effect of Affective commitment on the relationship of Work engagement and Job satisfaction. The study was carried out with 304 samples of the teaching faculty of technical institutes of Arunachal Pradesh (India). Findings provide useful perception and suggestions for thedepartment of technical education of the state and by the institutes to adopt effective HRM practices that could lead to increased performance.
Work engagement, Affective commitment, Job satisfaction, the Positive outcome
