... a meaning gain spiral that enhances work engagement through the processes of searching for work meaning and finding work meaningful. Design/methodology/approach A four-wave longitudinal study was conducted with a sample of 371 employees to test the proposed model. Findings Our results indicate...

...Xiaofeng Xu; Ho Kwong Kwan; Feng Wei Purpose Based on the cognitive activation theory of stress, this study aims to explore why and how exposure to workplace ostracism as a stress stimulus, triggers proximal negative and positive reactions that lead to employees' distal work engagement and help...

...Jiaxi Huang; Weipeng Lin; Di Cai; Bing Liu; Lei Qi Purpose Based on the self-regulation perspective, the current research examines how authoritarian leadership behaviors influence employee service performance via work engagement. Design/methodology/approach We collected multi-source data from...

...Pantea Foroudi; Farbod Fakhreddin Purpose Grounded in psychological contract theory, this study investigates the impact of ideological psychological contract fulfillment on key workplace outcomes, including work engagement, organizational commitment, and organizational citizenship behavior...

...Zeeshan Hamid; Yasir Mansoor Kundi Purpose This study examines how servant and despotic leadership influence work engagement, mediated by identification with the leader and moderated by employees’ political skill. Design/methodology/approach The proposed linkages were tested in three studies...

... for a specific focus on the implementation of emerging technologies and their impact at the employee level. This paper extends the S-O-R framework including attitudes toward AI, trust and work engagement as key stimuli. These factors play critical roles in the adoption of GenAI, particularly in its early...

...Ling-yun Wang; Chun-feng Zhang; Xiao-ying Su Purpose The purpose of this paper is to unveil the efficacy of coaching leadership within Chinese organizations and bolster employees’ work engagement. Design/methodology/approach The sample data were collected through employing the questionnaire...

...Henry C.Y. HO Purpose Organizational justice plays a crucial role in shaping employee work attitudes. This study examines how and when procedural, distributive, interpersonal, and informational justice affects employees’ affective commitment and work engagement. The research is grounded...

... was conducted. The first and second survey waves included 1,527 and 1,467 respondents, respectively. Findings The results showed that knowledge brokering positively influenced work engagement directly and indirectly. In the three dimensions of role crafting, cognitive and task crafting had a positive effect...

... in leaders' motivational and health-impairment processes. The proposed serial mediation of the relationship between job resources and StaffCare via leader SelfCare and work engagement was also supported. Practical implications The study can guide job redesign for leaders by highlighting the role of job...

... and productive across the lifespan. In the current research, the authors integrate socioemotional selectivity theory and selection, optimization and compensation theory with job design to investigate how certain job characteristics influence the work engagement of older and younger workers. Design/methodology...

... (Hill, 1987). A sample item is “One of my greatest sources of comfort when things get rough is being with other people.” Vigor (α = 0.89) was measured using three vigor items from the shortened Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (Schaufeli et al., 2006). A sample item is “At work...

...Wenli Dong; Lifeng Zhong Purpose Leaders are under increasing pressure to cultivate an engaged workforce in responsible ways, but how and when responsible leadership is related to employee work engagement remains unclear. Hence, this study aims to unfold the responsible leadership–work engagement...

... for the relationships from propensity to trust and reciprocation wariness to work engagement through TMX. At the individual level, the positive effects of propensity to trust and negative effects of reciprocation wariness on TMX, and their indirect effects on work engagement through TMX, were weaker at higher shared...

... Both emotional demands and time pressure exert positive effects on work engagement when people expect resource gain (challenge appraisal), independent of actual resource gain (achievement). Furthermore, results show that goal progress buffers negative effects of perceived blocked resource gain...

... 17 02 2020 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Work–family issues Human resource management Work engagement Work–life balance Work–life balance (WLB) is defined as an “individual's perception of how well his or her life...

...-use rights only Employee well-being Work engagement Positive psychology Subjective happiness The management’s goal is to pursue the happiness of all employees, both physically and mentally. It was not for shareholders, and it was not for executives. It was for all the employees...

... conflict (WFC) and two work criteria, job satisfaction and work engagement; second, to examine two measures of polychronicity (the multitasking preference inventory (MPI) and the inventory of polychronic values (IPV)) and investigate whether polychronicity moderates the relationships between WFC and work...

...Bruce Rayton; Zeynep Y. Yalabik; Andriana Rapti Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between fit (organization and job) perceptions and work engagement (WE). Design/methodology/approach The authors deployed a two-wave survey among 377 clerical employees...

...Yuanjie Bao; Chaoping Li; Hao Zhao Purpose The purpose of this paper is to compare two mediating mechanisms of servant leadership’s effect on followers’ work engagement: the social exchange mechanism (represented by leader-member exchange (LMX)) and the social learning mechanism (represented...