Fletcher, Luke, Bailey, Catherine and Gilman, Mark (2018). Fluctuating levels of personal role engagement within the working day:a multilevel study. Human Resource Management Journal, 28 (1), pp. 128-147.
Abstract
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.
Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12168 |
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Divisions: | College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School > Work & Organisational Psychology |
Additional Information: | This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Fletcher, L., Bailey, C., & Gilman, M. (2017). Fluctuating levels of personal role engagement within the working day: a multilevel study. Human Resource Management Journal, in press, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.121688. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving. |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | availability,meaningfulness,personal role engagement,resources,safety,Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management,Applied Psychology |
Publication ISSN: | 1748-8583 |
Last Modified: | 06 Aug 2024 07:43 |
Date Deposited: | 10 Aug 2017 09:50 |
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PURE Output Type: | Article |
Published Date: | 2018-01-11 |
Published Online Date: | 2017-09-11 |
Accepted Date: | 2017-07-28 |
Submitted Date: | 2015-07-14 |
Authors: |
Fletcher, Luke
(![]() Bailey, Catherine Gilman, Mark |