Job concern is a common element in any work organization. It is, no doubt, capable of determining the extent to which an employee is engaged with the job. This study therefore investigated job concern factors (namely workload, job hazard, and interpersonal discrimination) and academic staff engagement in public universities in Lagos State, Nigeria. The descriptive survey research design was used for the study. Five null-hypotheses, tested at .05 level of significance, guided the study. Participants were 250 randomly selected academic staff from two purposively selected public universities in Lagos State. A self-constructed questionnaire was used for data collection. Data were analyzed using inferential statistics, specifically One Sample t-test, Pearson Product-Moment Correlation, Pearson Chi Square, and Independent t-test respectively. Findings showed that in public universities in Lagos State, Nigeria, the level of academic staff engagement was low [t (249) = 230.15, p>0.05]. No significant relationship was found between workload and employee engagement [r (248) = -0.611; p>0.05]. Further finding showed that employee engagement was significantly related to job hazard [r (248) = 0.502, p<0.05]. There was also significant relationship between interpersonal discrimination and employee engagement [r (248) = 0.721; p<0.05]. Finally, there was no significant difference in employee engagement among academic staff in Federal and State Universities[t (249) = 3.122, p>0.05]. It was recommended that Government and institutional administrators should ensure that the working environment is made more conducive for scholarly works, employ more qualified staff, and avoid interpersonal discrimination among academic staff