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Construct validation of 17-item Utrecht university work engagement scale amongst the white collar employees of Malaysian universities

Primarily, the study investigated the psychometric properties of UWES work engagement scale were assessed in the context of education sector of Malaysia. Staff members from the two public sector universities in the Kedah state were sampled whereby, 205 questionnaires were distributed that resulted i...

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Main Authors: Ahmed, Umar, Abdul Majid, Abdul Halim, Mohd Zin, Md. Lazim
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Published: Human Resource Management Academic Research Society 2016
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spelling my.uum.repo.184652020-11-16T08:01:33Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/18465/ Construct validation of 17-item Utrecht university work engagement scale amongst the white collar employees of Malaysian universities Ahmed, Umar Abdul Majid, Abdul Halim Mohd Zin, Md. Lazim LB2300 Higher Education Primarily, the study investigated the psychometric properties of UWES work engagement scale were assessed in the context of education sector of Malaysia. Staff members from the two public sector universities in the Kedah state were sampled whereby, 205 questionnaires were distributed that resulted in 180 appropriate responses for final data analysis.The results have indicated towards satisfactory level of internal consistency reliability, convergent; as well as discriminant validity.The structural equation modeling has highlighted higher order stability for work engagement ranging between 0.803 and 0.838.The findings henceforth, conclude that UWES-17 is construct is robust in assessing work engagement among the while collar employees working in the education sector of Malaysia. Human Resource Management Academic Research Society 2016-05 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc4_by http://repo.uum.edu.my/18465/1/IJARBSS%206%205%202016%20306-312.pdf Ahmed, Umar and Abdul Majid, Abdul Halim and Mohd Zin, Md. Lazim (2016) Construct validation of 17-item Utrecht university work engagement scale amongst the white collar employees of Malaysian universities. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 6 (5). pp. 306-312. ISSN 2222-6990 http://hrmars.com/index.php/journals/archive_detail/IJARBSS/146
institution Universiti Utara Malaysia
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spellingShingle LB2300 Higher Education
Ahmed, Umar
Abdul Majid, Abdul Halim
Mohd Zin, Md. Lazim
Construct validation of 17-item Utrecht university work engagement scale amongst the white collar employees of Malaysian universities
description Primarily, the study investigated the psychometric properties of UWES work engagement scale were assessed in the context of education sector of Malaysia. Staff members from the two public sector universities in the Kedah state were sampled whereby, 205 questionnaires were distributed that resulted in 180 appropriate responses for final data analysis.The results have indicated towards satisfactory level of internal consistency reliability, convergent; as well as discriminant validity.The structural equation modeling has highlighted higher order stability for work engagement ranging between 0.803 and 0.838.The findings henceforth, conclude that UWES-17 is construct is robust in assessing work engagement among the while collar employees working in the education sector of Malaysia.
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author Ahmed, Umar
Abdul Majid, Abdul Halim
Mohd Zin, Md. Lazim
author_facet Ahmed, Umar
Abdul Majid, Abdul Halim
Mohd Zin, Md. Lazim
author_sort Ahmed, Umar
title Construct validation of 17-item Utrecht university work engagement scale amongst the white collar employees of Malaysian universities
title_short Construct validation of 17-item Utrecht university work engagement scale amongst the white collar employees of Malaysian universities
title_full Construct validation of 17-item Utrecht university work engagement scale amongst the white collar employees of Malaysian universities
title_fullStr Construct validation of 17-item Utrecht university work engagement scale amongst the white collar employees of Malaysian universities
title_full_unstemmed Construct validation of 17-item Utrecht university work engagement scale amongst the white collar employees of Malaysian universities
title_sort construct validation of 17-item utrecht university work engagement scale amongst the white collar employees of malaysian universities
publisher Human Resource Management Academic Research Society
publishDate 2016
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