Fluctuating levels of personal role engagement within the working day

Luke Fletcher

Fluctuating levels of personal role engagement within the working day

Luke Fletcher

Aston Business School

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Abstract

In this paper, we tested Kahn's (1990) proposition that levels of personal role engagement are influenced by fluctuating perceptions of meaningfulness, safety and availability through the working day. We hypothesized that meaningfulness, safety and availability perceptions would be directly associated with engagement and also that they would mediate the associations between specific job factors, notably job design and fit, social support, and personal and organizational resources, and engagement. A total of 124 participants each completed a quantitative work diary relating to the most and least engaging situations every day within six working days (n = 723 occasions). Multilevel analysis of the findings showed that meaningfulness and availability, but not safety, may be important for boosts and drops in levels of engagement, and that job design, job fit and personal resources play an especially critical role. Organizational resources, co-worker support, and safety were not associated with fluctuations in the level of engagement.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of 75th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Vancouver BC Canada, August 2015.
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	75th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management: Opening governance - Vancouver, BA, Canada Duration: 7 Aug 2015 → 11 Aug 2015

Meeting

Meeting	75th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Abbreviated title	AOM 2015
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Vancouver, BA
Period	7/08/15 → 11/08/15

Keywords

engagement
fluctuations
work context

1 Conference publication

The relationship between perceived training and development and employee retention
Fletcher, L. & Robinson, D., 2015, Proceedings of 75th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Vancouver BC Canada, August 2015..
Research output: Chapter in Book/Published conference output › Conference publication

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Fluctuating levels of personal role engagement within the working day

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The relationship between perceived training and development and employee retention

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