The present study attempts to address the issue of role-overload among Indian school teachers. Indian school teachers are overloaded; they need to perform many non-academic assignments, resulting in disengagement from their work. Data was collected from 630 school teachers working in the central part of the Indian subcontinent. The study considers the Job-Demand and Resource model to predict work engagement. We have taken role-overload as job demand and self-esteem as the job resource to predict work engagement. The model is confirmed through structural equation modeling. Findings indicate that role-overload affects work engagement negatively. Self-esteem influences work engagement positively and mediates between role-overload and work engagement.
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