Work Engagement in India

Kumar Alok
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Kumar Alok: Kumar Alok is Assistant Professor (OB/HR) at Chandragupt Institute of Management, Patna, Bihar, India. E-mail: alokintouch@gmail.com

Management and Labour Studies, 2013, vol. 38, issue 1-2, 53-62

Abstract: Work engagement is generally accepted to have three factors: vigour, dedication and absorption. I studied whether this three-factor model is valid for India. 182 Indian working professionals completed the 9-item Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES-9). Confirmatory factor analysis showed that the three factor model may not be appropriate for India. Instead, it may be more appropriate to consider work engagement as a single-factor construct for India. Further analyses showed that the single-factor model is invariant across gender, organizational tenure and dyadic duration, but varies across age groups. It may indicate the need to consider culture as a boundary condition for work engagement.

Keywords: Confirmatory factor analysis; factorial validity; scale; work engagement; UWES (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1177/0258042X13491478

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