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Fluctuating levels of personal role engagement within the working day: a multilevel study

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posted on 2023-06-09, 07:29 authored by Luke Fletcher, Catherine Bailey, Mark W Gilman
In this diary study, we examined a theoretical model in which the psychological conditions of meaningfulness, availability, and safety serve as mechanisms through which the work context during discrete situations within the workday influences ‘state’ engagement. We further theorised that a person’s ‘trait’ level of engagement would exert cross-level effects on the ‘state’ level relationships. Multilevel analyses based on a sample of 124 individuals in six organisations and 1,446 situational observations revealed that meaningfulness and availability (but not safety) mediated the relationships between perceptions of the work context and ‘state’ engagement. High levels of ‘trait’ engagement strengthened the within-person relation between availability and ‘state’ engagement, yet weakened the within-person relation between meaningfulness and ‘state’ engagement; suggesting two different processes may be at play. Overall, the findings advance our understanding of engagement as a multilevel and temporally dynamic psychological phenomenon, and promote a contextually-based HRM approach to facilitating engagement.

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  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Journal

Human Resource Management Journal

ISSN

0954-5395

Publisher

Wiley

Issue

1

Volume

28

Page range

128-147

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  • Business and Management Publications

Research groups affiliated with

  • Future of Work Hub Publications

Full text available

  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2017-08-01

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2019-09-11

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2017-08-01

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