Is Autonomy Always Beneficial for Work Engagement? A Six-year Four-Wave Follow-Up Study.
autonomy
job resources
longitudinal
multilevel regression mixture modeling
work engagement
Journal
Journal for person-oriented research
ISSN: 2003-0177
Titre abrégé: J Pers Oriented Res
Pays: Sweden
ID NLM: 101673808
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2020
2020
Historique:
entrez:
11
2
2021
pubmed:
12
2
2021
medline:
12
2
2021
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Work engagement is expected to result from job resources such as autonomy. However, previous results have yielded that the autonomy-work engagement relationship is not always particularly strong. Whereas previous longitudinal studies have examined this relationship as an average at a specific point in time, this study examined whether this relationship is different within individuals from one time to another over the years. Furthermore, experiences of work engagement are expected to affect how employees benefit from autonomy, but no studies have so far investigated whether the initial level of work engagement affects the autonomy-work engagement relationship. This study aimed to first identify the different kinds of longitudinal relationship patterns between autonomy and work engagement, and then to investigate whether the identified relationship patterns differ in terms of the initial mean level of work engagement. The four-wave study was conducted among Finnish managers (
Identifiants
pubmed: 33569149
doi: 10.17505/jpor.2020.22043
pii: JPOR-6-1-016
pmc: PMC7842623
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
16-27Informations de copyright
© Person-Oriented Research.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
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