From Pressure to Performance, and Health Risks Control: Occupational Stress Management and Employee Engagement in Higher Education

In the higher educational sector, teachers are facing different kinds of occupational crises that are important to consider for their better performance and improvement in the working environment and provide health risk control. The objective of this study was to investigate the influence mechanism and countermeasures for occupational pressure reduction on teachers' work engagement in the higher education sector. The data was collected by using a quantitative design and 400 questionnaires were distributed to the target respondents. The study concludes that fostering employee collaboration, technological innovation, and leadership support contributes to reduction in occupational stress, and provide health risks control. Moreover, occupational stress reduction is a strong mediator that acts as a bridge to enhance employee engagement in Higher Educational Institutes (HEIs). The findings of this study provide useful theoretical and practical implications that are important to reduce occupational pressure on the work engagement of teachers’ staff of public and private institutes and provide health risk control. Lastly, this study highlights the further gap in the literature that must be fulfilled by future studies, and research's to contribute to the literature.