Moderating Influence of Critical Psychological States on Work Engagement and Personal Outcomes in the Telecom Sector

Harold Andrew Patrick and Vinayak Anil Bhat

SAGE Open, 2014, vol. 4, issue 2, 2158244014538260

Abstract: Organizations want their employees to be engaged with their work, exhibiting proactive behavior, initiative, and responsibility for personal development. Existing literature has a dearth of studies that evaluate all the three key variables that lead to optimal employee performance— critical psychological states (CPSs), work engagement , and personal outcomes . The present study attempts to fill that gap by linking the variable CPSs (which measures experienced meaningfulness, responsibility, and knowledge of results) with the other two. The study surveyed 359 sales personnel in the Indian telecom industry and adopted standardized, valid, and reliable instruments to measure their work engagement, CPSs, and personal outcomes. Analysis was done using structural equation modeling (SEM). Findings indicated that CPSs significantly moderate the relationship between personal outcomes and work engagement.

Keywords: critical psychological states (CPSs); work engagement; motivation; job characteristics model; human resources management; job diagnostic survey; organizational behavior (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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