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The Effect of Work Engagement on Self-Esteem: A field Study at the Center of the Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research

Dr Khaled Mahdi Saleh

Volume: 12 Issue: 2 2022

Abstract:

This study aimed to investigate the effect of work engagement on self-esteem, so the theoretical concepts of these variables have been viewed add to use the statistical methods to approve the correlation between these two variables. The search has been applied on a sample include of 310 employees in The Center of Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research their specialties and job grades have been varied. Some results have been reached the most important of them was there is no strong effect of work engagement on self –esteem because of difference in levels of each of them for a sample of study according to the results that the statistical analysis showed it. so, a set of recommendations were developed, the most important of them was the need to prepare a work environment helps the employees in the searched organization to engagement with their work by give them tasks get away from the routine and important make the employees feel like they are important and the organization can depend on them.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.37648/ijrssh.v12i02.002

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