How does workplace event criticality spur employees’ proactivity? The roles of work engagement and mindfulness
This paper aims to generate insights about whether, how, and when workplace event criticality spurs employee proactivity. We conducted multilevel analyses with a three-wave time-lagged survey of 179 employees and their 55 direct leaders in China to test our proposed model. The findings indicate that...
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| description | This paper aims to generate insights about whether, how, and when workplace event criticality spurs employee proactivity. We conducted multilevel analyses with a three-wave time-lagged survey of 179 employees and their 55 direct leaders in China to test our proposed model. The findings indicate that workplace event criticality is conducive to stimulating proactive work behavior through improving employee engagement. Further, employee mindfulness amplifies the positive relationship between workplace event criticality and work engagement. Despite the increasingly unavoidable influence of events in the workplace on employee proactivity, empirical research around the relationship and its underlying mechanism has been rather sparse. Our event-oriented research advances this knowledge by unpacking the salient motivating role of workplace events’ criticality in employee work engagement and proactivity. It also increases our understanding by illustrating that employee mindfulness will amplify and intensify the motivational potential of workplace event criticality for work engagement. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d78b5b7e928c483e88ee0917cfc500a12022-12-22T03:58:30ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782022-11-011310.3389/fpsyg.2022.976213976213How does workplace event criticality spur employees’ proactivity? The roles of work engagement and mindfulnessYi Zhang0Lifang Gao1Yuan Feng2Art Education Center, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, ChinaSchool of Business Administration, Faculty of Business Administration, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, ChinaSchool of Accounting, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, ChinaThis paper aims to generate insights about whether, how, and when workplace event criticality spurs employee proactivity. We conducted multilevel analyses with a three-wave time-lagged survey of 179 employees and their 55 direct leaders in China to test our proposed model. The findings indicate that workplace event criticality is conducive to stimulating proactive work behavior through improving employee engagement. Further, employee mindfulness amplifies the positive relationship between workplace event criticality and work engagement. Despite the increasingly unavoidable influence of events in the workplace on employee proactivity, empirical research around the relationship and its underlying mechanism has been rather sparse. Our event-oriented research advances this knowledge by unpacking the salient motivating role of workplace events’ criticality in employee work engagement and proactivity. It also increases our understanding by illustrating that employee mindfulness will amplify and intensify the motivational potential of workplace event criticality for work engagement.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.976213/fullworkplace event criticalitywork engagementmindfulnessproactive work behaviorevent system theory |
| spellingShingle | Yi Zhang Lifang Gao Yuan Feng How does workplace event criticality spur employees’ proactivity? The roles of work engagement and mindfulness Frontiers in Psychology workplace event criticality work engagement mindfulness proactive work behavior event system theory |
| title | How does workplace event criticality spur employees’ proactivity? The roles of work engagement and mindfulness |
| title_full | How does workplace event criticality spur employees’ proactivity? The roles of work engagement and mindfulness |
| title_fullStr | How does workplace event criticality spur employees’ proactivity? The roles of work engagement and mindfulness |
| title_full_unstemmed | How does workplace event criticality spur employees’ proactivity? The roles of work engagement and mindfulness |
| title_short | How does workplace event criticality spur employees’ proactivity? The roles of work engagement and mindfulness |
| title_sort | how does workplace event criticality spur employees proactivity the roles of work engagement and mindfulness |
| topic | workplace event criticality work engagement mindfulness proactive work behavior event system theory |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.976213/full |
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