Jobs, Org Culture, or Personality? Comparing the Main Theories of Employee Engagement
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Lynette Bikos
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Industrial-Organizational Psychology
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The employee engagement industry is worth an estimated $74.3 billion (Starr Conspiracy, 2016). Although researchers generally agree on the concept of engagement and the benefits of it, there is little evidence regarding the source(s) of engagement. This study analyzed the longitudinal data from more than 160,000 participants to quantify and compare the support for theorized sources of engagement: job characteristics, organizational culture, and personality. The effect of the job characteristics predictors (β = .34) dwarfed the effects of culture (β = .02) and personality (β = .06). These findings are only partially consistent with past findings.
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Jobs, Org Culture, or Personality? Comparing the Main Theories of Employee Engagement
The employee engagement industry is worth an estimated $74.3 billion (Starr Conspiracy, 2016). Although researchers generally agree on the concept of engagement and the benefits of it, there is little evidence regarding the source(s) of engagement. This study analyzed the longitudinal data from more than 160,000 participants to quantify and compare the support for theorized sources of engagement: job characteristics, organizational culture, and personality. The effect of the job characteristics predictors (β = .34) dwarfed the effects of culture (β = .02) and personality (β = .06). These findings are only partially consistent with past findings.
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