The investigation of the contribution of goal orientation, percieved organizational support and big five personality traits in predicting work engagement of female teachers in Shahrekord

work engagement is a stable and positive state of mind which is associated with work and it protects against job burnout. This study was conducted to determine the contribution of goal orientation, perceived organizational support and big five Factor personality traits in predicting job motivation of female teachers in Shahrekord.
The design of the study was correlational-survey. In addition, the sample was 230 female teachers in Shahrekord who were teaching in high school in 2013-2014. The sample of the study was selected by cluster sampling. To collect the data, Goal-orientation (VandeWalle,1997), perceived organizational support (Eisenberger, etc, 1986), Five Factor inventory (Costa and McCrae, 1985) and job work engagement (Shaufleie and Becker, 2003) were administered to the participants.
Correlation and step regression analyses were utilized to analyze the data. Findings of the study showed that there was a significant relationship among goal-orientation, perceived organizational suppor, Big Five factor personality traits and work engagement (p the present study indicated that different components of personality, goal-orientation and perceived organizational support can work engagement. These findings were discussed.