Does Well-being Mediate Between Mindfulness and Knowledge Workers’ Work Engagement Relationship?

The rising psychological pressure among the knowledge workers mandates to focus on the ways crucial for improving their overall well-being and engagement. Thus, the study intends to examine whether the mindful behavior (an individual characteristic) possessed by them can prove beneficial in influencing their well-being and engagement level or not. Alongside, this research investigates the mediating role of well-being in the mindfulness and work engagement relationship, to understand the pathway via which knowledge workers’ mindful nature contributes in increasing their work engagement. It is worth noting that even though several studies have empirically tested the relationship between mindfulness and work engagement. However, the aforesaid relationship has not been scrutinized concerning knowledge workers. Moreover, the mediating mechanism between these two constructs via well-being has not yet been checked on the knowledge worker’s group. The cross-sectional study has been conducted on 284 knowledge workers in India, and the data analysis has been done using Jamovi (version 1.8.4.0) and SPSS (version 20) software by subsuming the confirmatory factor and regression analysis techniques. The findings of the study indicated that mindfulness helps in augmenting employees’ work engagement both directly and indirectly via well-being. Therefore, managers of knowledge-intensive organizations can rely on making their workforce more mindful by interacting with them to get in-depth insight regarding the factors affecting their mindfulness. It will subsequently be advantageous for the entire organization and helps in establishing a positive environment in the workplace.