Date of Award
Spring 2021
Document Type
Open Access Dissertation
Department
Educational Leadership and Policies
First Advisor
Susan C. Bon
Abstract
This quantitative research study examined the relationship between prosocial behavior, work engagement, and workplace civility among higher education professionals. The specific university employees it studied were student affairs staff, academic affairs administrators, and faculty. Responses to a survey by a national random sample allowed the researcher to determine the relationship between a respondent’s prosocial nature and both their workplace civility and their work engagement. In the end, all three hypotheses were supported by the data: (a) prosocial behavior scores of student affairs staff and academic affairs administrators are higher than those of faculty, (b) the prosocial behavior scores were positively correlated with work engagement scores, and (c) prosocial behavior scores were positively correlated with workplace civility scores.
Rights
© 2021, Shelley Haddock Dempsey
Recommended Citation
Dempsey, S. H.(2021). A Study of Prosocial Behavior, Workplace Civility, and Work Engagement Among Employees in Higher Education. (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/6368