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The Diminishing Effect of Transformational Leadership on the Relationship Between Task Characteristics, Perceived Meaningfulness, and Work Engagement

The topic of employee work engagement in the public sector has attracted broad attention because it is critical to the efficiency and effectiveness of public services. Based on the Job Characteristics Model (JCM) and the Integrative Theory of Employee Engagement (ITEE), the present research adopts a...

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Autores principales: Meng, Fanxing, Wang, Yi, Xu, Wenying, Ye, Junhui, Peng, Lin, Gao, Peng
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7723826/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33324294
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.585031
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author Meng, Fanxing
Wang, Yi
Xu, Wenying
Ye, Junhui
Peng, Lin
Gao, Peng
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Wang, Yi
Xu, Wenying
Ye, Junhui
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description The topic of employee work engagement in the public sector has attracted broad attention because it is critical to the efficiency and effectiveness of public services. Based on the Job Characteristics Model (JCM) and the Integrative Theory of Employee Engagement (ITEE), the present research adopts a multilevel design to examine a moderated mediation model in which task characteristics (i.e., task autonomy and task significance as level-1 predictors) and social context (i.e., transformational leadership as a level-2 moderator) jointly impact employee work engagement via individual perception of meaningfulness in work. A total of 349 grassroots police officers from 35 police substations were invited to anonymously complete a survey via mobile app. After performing the cross-sectional analysis, the results indicated that in contrast to task significance, the conditional effect of task autonomy on work engagement via perceived meaningfulness was more positive at a lower level of transformational leadership. Implications, limitations, and future research directions are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-77238262020-12-14 The Diminishing Effect of Transformational Leadership on the Relationship Between Task Characteristics, Perceived Meaningfulness, and Work Engagement Meng, Fanxing Wang, Yi Xu, Wenying Ye, Junhui Peng, Lin Gao, Peng Front Psychol Psychology The topic of employee work engagement in the public sector has attracted broad attention because it is critical to the efficiency and effectiveness of public services. Based on the Job Characteristics Model (JCM) and the Integrative Theory of Employee Engagement (ITEE), the present research adopts a multilevel design to examine a moderated mediation model in which task characteristics (i.e., task autonomy and task significance as level-1 predictors) and social context (i.e., transformational leadership as a level-2 moderator) jointly impact employee work engagement via individual perception of meaningfulness in work. A total of 349 grassroots police officers from 35 police substations were invited to anonymously complete a survey via mobile app. After performing the cross-sectional analysis, the results indicated that in contrast to task significance, the conditional effect of task autonomy on work engagement via perceived meaningfulness was more positive at a lower level of transformational leadership. Implications, limitations, and future research directions are discussed. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-11-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7723826/ /pubmed/33324294 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.585031 Text en Copyright © 2020 Meng, Wang, Xu, Ye, Peng and Gao. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Meng, Fanxing
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Xu, Wenying
Ye, Junhui
Peng, Lin
Gao, Peng
The Diminishing Effect of Transformational Leadership on the Relationship Between Task Characteristics, Perceived Meaningfulness, and Work Engagement
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title_full_unstemmed The Diminishing Effect of Transformational Leadership on the Relationship Between Task Characteristics, Perceived Meaningfulness, and Work Engagement
title_short The Diminishing Effect of Transformational Leadership on the Relationship Between Task Characteristics, Perceived Meaningfulness, and Work Engagement
title_sort diminishing effect of transformational leadership on the relationship between task characteristics, perceived meaningfulness, and work engagement
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7723826/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33324294
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.585031
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