Impact of Workplace Culture on Teachers’ Performance in Higher Education Institutions

Abstract

The main challenge facing the higher education system is enhancing the quality of instruction, which can be accomplished by increasing the number of effective teachers with professional training. Thus, the study aimed at highlighting the relationship and role of workplace culture in the formation and shaping of teachers’ competencies in higher education institutions. Self-administered scales adopted from the literature were used and data was collected from 178 teachers working in the private self-aided colleges of Punjab state (India). Using analysis techniques like correlation and regression the study found that there was a positive and significant relationship between workplace culture and teachers’ competencies. However, it was also found that weak workplace culture was rated by the respondents which was also impacting their own competency development in the institutions they were working. Thus the study concluded and recommended that workplace culture plays an important role in developing talent for institutions as well as for the nation. Thus institutions should make necessary changes to their work environment that encourage employees to work for the benefit of their institutional and social goals.