In a field study that involved over 700 participants, four University of Dallas researchers tested a comprehensive model that helps us understand what drives engagement in organizations.
Only 30 percent of the workforce is engaged in their work. Engaged employees tend to be more productive and creative, learn more and report higher levels of satisfaction with their jobs and less intention to leave. Employee engagement has a positive impact on organizations’ financial performance, and understanding the drivers of engagement can help organizations be better equipped to understand and address employees’ needs so that they can thrive in their work environment.
J. Lee Whittington, Ph.D, is a professor of management at UD. He is the author of Biblical Perspectives on Leadership and Organizations and co-author of Leading the Sustainable Organization.
Simone Meskelis, DBA, is an adjunct professor at UD and co-authored a chapter in Faith and Work: Christian Perspectives, Research and Insights into the Movement.
Enoch Asare, DBA, CPA, CGMA, is an assistant professor of accounting at Texas A&M University, Texarkana. His research has been published in books, book chapters and conference proceedings.
Sri Beldona, Ph.D., is a professor of management at UD. His research papers have appeared in several international journals, and he is also a regular participant in numerous international conferences.
The University of Dallas has announced a new director of civil rights, Luciana Milano. Milano, who has a Bachelor of Arts in government from Harvard College and a J.D. from Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School of Law, began her new role on Oct. 12.
+ Read More“This is the first time we’ve had a scholarship in honor of a great Catholic intellectual — and now, within the last year, saint,” said President Thomas S. Hibbs, Ph.D., BA ’82 MA ’83, by way of introducing the St. John Henry Newman Scholarship in Philosophy recently endowed by alumnus Matthew Hejduk, MA '98 PhD '06, and his wife, Julia Hejduk, Ph.D. Julia was a colleague of Hibbs during his time at Baylor University, where she teaches in the Classics Department.
+ Read MoreMichelle Cortez-Gonzales, MFA ’20, was a Fort Worth ISD high school teacher with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting from the University of Texas at Arlington when she decided to go back to school to get her master’s. At the recommendation of a friend, she visited UD, and knew immediately from the wooded area around the Art Village, the architecture of the buildings, and the faculty members she met that UD was the place for her.
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