Abstract:

The aim of this study is to examine the relationships between work engagement, job satisfaction, and employee voice, and to explain the effects of these three concepts on the positive working environment in universities. A survey consisting of work engagement, job satisfaction, and employee voice scales were distributed to 233 academicians working at İstanbul Gelişim University, and regression and correlation analysis, independent sample t-test and variance tests were performed with the data obtained. Reliability analyses of all scales used in the study were performed and Cronbach's Alpha coefficients were calculated. The reliability coefficients of all scales were included in the high-reliability scale. Among the academicians participating in the research, the values of work engagement and job satisfaction were observed highest for professors and those whose average age was over 60, and the lowest for research assistants and under the age of 30. In addition, both job satisfaction and work engagement, and employee voice were higher for academicians with high work experience. If the academicians do their jobs with passion, be happy while doing their jobs, and take initiative to improve the positive atmosphere in their workplaces; that it will contribute to increasing the teaching performance and the number of publications in universities.

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