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JOURNAL OF BUSINESS AND PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 37, Issue 2, Pages 353-368Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10869-021-09750-7
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Work engagement; Feedback-seeking behavior; Personal resources; Conservation of resources theory
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Based on conservation of resources theory, this study explores the curvilinear relationship between employees' work engagement and job performance, and suggests that feedback-seeking behavior acts as a boundary condition in moderating this relationship. Personal resources likely mediate this relationship.
Drawing from conservation of resources theory, this study examines the curvilinear relationship between employees' work engagement and their job performance; the authors also hypothesize that employees' feedback-seeking behavior is a pertinent boundary condition that mitigates this curvilinear relationship. Personal resources likely mediate the work engagement-job performance relationship too. Data gathered from 190 employees and their supervisors in Ukraine (study 1) and from 171 employees and their supervisors in Pakistan (study 2) reveal that although work engagement enhances job performance, the effect occurs at a declining rate as work engagement increases. Feedback-seeking behavior moderates this curvilinear relationship, so the decline in the rate at which work engagement enhances job performance is mitigated by higher levels of feedback-seeking behavior. Furthermore, after controlling for the role of feedback-seeking behavior, the curvilinear effect of work engagement on job performance is mediated by personal resources (i.e., self-efficacy, optimism, and resilience). These findings have significant implications for research and practice.
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