Do workplace digitalisation and group diversity matter in linking innovative culture to employee engagement?

Lai Wan Hooi and Ai Joo Chan

Evidence-based HRM, 2024, vol. 13, issue 2, 214-229

Abstract: PurposeDrawing on the Job Demands-Resource (JD-R) model, this paper examines innovative culture as the antecedent to employee engagement (EE), taking workplace digitalisation as the mediator and group diversity as the moderator on the workplace digitalisation–EE relationship.Design/methodology/approachThe research model is tested using structural equation modelling, based on 256 online survey data representing the management-level executives of Selangor/Kuala Lumpur-based Malaysian companies.FindingsOur findings support that innovative culture directly affects EE and indirectly through workplace digitalisation. Besides, group diversity moderates the workplace digitalisation–EE relationship.Practical implicationsThe findings suggest that organisations can enhance EE in a diversity-oriented digital setting by cultivating an innovative culture to facilitate employees’ perception and acceptance of workplace digitalisation.Originality/valueOur findings enrich the interdisciplinary literature on how innovative culture, employees’ perception and acceptance of workplace digitalisation and group diversity intersect in reshaping EE.

Keywords: Innovative culture; Workplace digitalisation; Employee engagement; Group diversity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1108/EBHRM-07-2023-0184

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