Abstract

ARAYA-PIZARRO, Sebastián; VERELST, Nando; PALLERO-CASTILLO, Daniela  and  VASQUEZ-ANGEL, Viviana. Motivation and organizational support as determinants of engagement with communities and external institution of postgraduate: findings from Chile. Cuad. Investig. Educ. [online]. 2024, vol.15, n.1, e205.  Epub June 01, 2024. ISSN 1510-2432.  https://doi.org/10.18861/cied.2024.15.1.3584.

Universities' engagement with the community and external institutions is particularly important in the current context. Society demands from academic institutions a real commitment to developing solutions to prioritize environmental problems to achieve a genuine social and economic transformation. This research aims to analyze the influence of motivation and organizational support on the results of engagement with the community and external institutions of teachers and students of postgraduate programs. A survey was carried out on 50 participants from doctoral programs in science and engineering at a public university in Chile, selected through intentional non-probabilistic sampling. The data obtained were analyzed through a Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) approach. The findings show that motivational factors directly, strongly, and significantly influence individual engagement results with the community and external institutions and act as mediator variables for organizational support. The most relevant motivations are related to the desire to strengthen the disciplinary field, collaborate in research, and generate knowledge with an impact on society and the territory. In conclusion, the study provides valuable exploratory findings on the relationship between motivation and organizational support, as well as the effectiveness of engagement actions with the community and external institutions. These findings provide key information for higher education institutions to develop policies and strategies aimed at improving their engagement with external stakeholders.

Keywords : motivation; organizational support; community engagement; postgraduate; multivariate analysis.

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