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    Employee engagement, digital experience, support, and resilience among university staff
    (University of Fort Hare, 2023-10-14) Nxazonke, Bridget Anelisa; Aderibigbe, JK; Ntuniz, B
    The research examined resilience as a mediating factor in the correlation among employee engagement, perceived organisational support, and digital experience A cross-sectional (survey) study using an explanatory design and convenience sampling techniques were used to sample 282 respondents, both male and female from University of Fort Hare. Responses were collected using a standardised, validated questionnaire. To propose a model employing structural equation modelling, multiple regression analysis, and Pearson correlation analysis, and five hypotheses were constructed and tested. The findings indicate that Employee engagement and the digital experience are unrelated concepts; r = -0.044, p>0.01. Employee engagement and perceived organisational support have a strong beneficial link, r = 0.247, p<0.01, and there is a positive link between resilience and employee engagement, r = 0.075, p<0.01. Resilience fully mediates the relationship between digital experience and employee engagement, F (0.2347) = 0.0136; R2= 0.061; p<0.05. In addition, resilience mediates the link between perceived organisational support and employee engagement, F (0.2304) =0.029; R2= 0.061; p<0.05. Based on the findings, the study concludes that resilience mediates the relationship between perceived organisational support and employee engagement, and for the relationship between digital experience and employee engagement to exists, resilience needs to exist as a mediator. The researcher recommends that new information regarding perceived organisational support and resilience should be shared with the workforce by employers and labour managers, particularly university employees, to strengthen the influence of employee engagement.
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    The relationship between employees' perceptions of HIV/AIDS prevention, care and support programmes and employee engagement: The case of South African tertiary institutions in the Eastern Cape Province.
    (University if Fort Hare, 2012-11) Buwu, Julia Tanyaradwa
    HIV/AIDS and employee engagement has become the greatest fear of most organisations in the 21 st century resulting in the failure of many organisations. HIV/AIDS affects all organisations, whether profit-making or non-profit making, such as tertiary institutions. Organisations have devised HIV/AIDS prevention, care and support programmes in order to reduce discrimination against and stigmatisation of infected employees, thereby providing a favourable working environment which results in employees becoming engaged with their organisations. In this regard, this study focused on the relationship between employees' perceptions> of HIV/AIDS prevention, care and support programmes and employee engagement. The study focused only on academic staff at the two selected tertiary institutions in the Eastern Cape Province in South Africa. Results indicated that academic staff in tertiary institutions are engaged with their work and the organisation and that academic staff have positive perceptions of HIV/AIDS prevention, care and support programmes provided by their organisations. The findings also revealed that there was a positive statistically significant relationship between employees' perceptions of HIV/AIDS prevention, care and support programmes and employee engagement.