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JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT
Volume 37, Issue 3, Pages 258-270Publisher
EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1108/JMD-01-2017-0039
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Knowledge sharing; Creativity; Proactivity; Learning environment; Employee engagement; Learning organizations
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Purpose Only 13 percent of the world's employees are engaged in their work, which has become a challenge for the managers of today. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the mediating role of employee engagement between perceived learning environment and extra-role behaviors. Design/methodology/approach This quantitative study collected data from 563 employees using a questionnaire-based survey on a convenience basis. Findings The data were analyzed using structural equation modeling. The results of the study show that employees' perception of learning environment urges them to perform beyond their formal job descriptions (i.e. extra-role behaviors) regarding proactivity, knowledge sharing and creativity. In addition, employee engagement performs the mediating role between learning environment and extra-role behaviors. Research limitations/implications The data for this study were collected at a single point of time (cross-sectional), which limits the inferences about the causality. Originality/value This study is perhaps the first attempt to empirically investigate the mediating role of employee engagement between the relationship of the learning environment and extra-role behaviors such as knowledge sharing, proactivity and creativity.
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