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Employee engagement : the role of psychological conditions

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Rothmann, Sebastiaan
Welsh, Coen

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The Southern African Institute for Management Scientists

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the antecedents of employee engagement in the context of a developing country. A cross-sectional survey design was used with a sample of 309 employees in organisations in Namibia. A biographical questionnaire and questionnaires that measure employee engagement and antecedents of engagement were administered. Work-role fit and job enrichment showed the strongest relationships with employee engagement, while rewards, co-worker relations, resources, supervisor relations and organisational support showed moderate relationships with employee engagement. Work-role fit, job enrichment and the availability of resources affected employee engagement indirectly via experiences of psychological meaningfulness, while the availability of resources and co-worker relations affected employee engagement indirectly through psychological availability. The results confirm the important role of psychological meaningfulness and psychological availability as mediators between work-role fit, job enrichment, resources and co-worker relations on the one hand, and employee engagement on the other.

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Rothmann, S. & Welsh, C. 2013. Employee engagement : the role of psychological conditions. Management dynamics: journal of the Southern Africa Institute for Management Scientists. [http://www.journals.co.za/ej/ejour_mandyn.html]

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