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Key factors in work engagement and job motivation of teaching faculty at a university medical centre

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Van den Berg, B. A. M., Bakker, Arnold B., Ten Cate, Th. J.·2013·Perspectives on Medical Education
DOI 10.1007/s40037-013-0080-1PMC PMC3824746
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This study reports about teacher motivation and work engagement in a Dutch University Medical Centre (UMC). We examined factors affecting the motivation for teaching in a UMC, the engagement of UMC Utrecht teaching faculty in their work, and their engagement in teaching compared with engagement in patient care and research. Based on a pilot study within various departments at the UMCU, a survey on teaching motivation and work engagement was developed and sent to over 600 UMCU teachers. About 50 % responded. Work engagement was measured by the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale, included in this survey. From a list of 22 pre-defined items, 5 were marked as most motivating: teaching about my own speciality, noticeable appreciation for teaching by my direct superior, teaching small groups, feedback on my teaching performance, and freedom to determine what I teach. Feedback on my teaching performance showed the strongest predictive value for teaching engagement. Engagement scores were relatively favourable, but engagement with patient care was higher than with research and teaching. Task combinations appear to decrease teaching engagement. Our results match with self-determination theory and the job demands–resources model, and challenge the policy to combine teaching with research and patient care.

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  • Performance feedback is a resource positively affecting work engagement in medical education.

    “Performance feedback is one of the previously known resources positively affecting work engagement in medical education (van den Berg et al. 2013).”

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  • Teachers will experience different levels of work engagement in their various roles.

    “We know teachers will experience different levels of work engagement in their various roles (van den Berg et al. 2013; Scheepers et al. 2014; van den Berg et al. 2016) and it seems this will affect their job crafting quite strongly, up to the point that work engagement for one role, will lessen job crafting in other roles.”

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Authors
Van den Berg, B. A. M., Bakker, A. B., & Ten Cate, T. J.
Affiliations
Erasmus University Rotterdam (NL)
ORCID
Bakker, Arnold B.
Venue
Perspectives on Medical Education
Publisher
Ubiquity Press, Ltd.
Published
2013-09-14
Volume
2
Issue
5-6
Pages
264-275
ISSN
  • 2212-2761 (ISSN-L)
  • 2212-277X
DOI
10.1007/s40037-013-0080-1
PMC
PMC3824746
OpenAlex
W2157484126
Cited by
86
References
2
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FWCI
7.55
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • Perspectives on Medical Education (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • EUR Research Repository (Erasmus University Rotterdam) (publishedVersion)
  • EUR Research Repository (Erasmus University Rotterdam) (submittedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Universiteit Utrecht
  • Universitair Medisch Centrum Utrecht
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Innovations in Medical Education
  • Social Sciences › Education › Evaluation of Teaching Practices
Keywords
work engagement, teaching motivation, university medical center, self-determination theory, job demands-resources model, teaching engagement, task combination

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