Spring 2026 | Employee Engagement: Breaking Old Habits

About this episode

Dr. Joshua Hays discusses the factors contributing to adjunct faculty burnout and reframes disengagement as a systemic issue.

Why are adjunct faculty burning out at staggering rates? In this thought-provoking episode, Dr. Joshua Hays examines how structural precarity, market-driven institutional logics, and unsupportive organizational climates shape engagement, burnout, and disengagement among adjunct faculty. Drawing on established psychological research, he reframes disengagement not as individual failure, but as a predictable outcome of system design. Learn more about the Faculty Leading the Change Series, powered by the Office of Teaching, Learning, and Mentoring Excellence → tinyurl.com/flc-series

People in this episode

Guest: Dr. Joshua Hays

Topics covered

• employee engagement
• adjunct faculty
• burnout
• organizational climate
• system design

Keywords

• adjunct faculty
• burnout
• employee engagement
• organizational climate
• psychological research

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Organizations: Office of Teaching, Learning, and Mentoring Excellence

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