Enhancing the Employee Engagement: The Mediating Role of Exchange Ideology

Title: Enhancing the Employee Engagement: The Mediating Role of Exchange Ideology

Authors: Lianto ^1,2 , Anis Eliyana ³ , Rizky Fauzan ¹

Affiliations: 1. Faculty of Economics and Business, Tanjungpura University; 2. Widya Dharma College of Economics; 3. Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Airlangga

Publisher: National Universiti Management Journal Malaysia

Abstract

This study analyzes a model that links three predictors namely workplace spirituality, self-efficacy, and personorganization fit to employee engagement through the mediating role of exchange ideology. Drawing on social exchange theory, researchers expected that exchange ideology would mediate the relationship between the given antecedents and employee engagement. This study used quantitative method to collect data and WarpPLS5.0 to analyze the data. The results of a survey conducted among 100 employees of credit unions in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, indicated that employees with stronger spirituality, self-efficacy, and values ​​compatibility were better engaged at work. Researchers also found that exchange ideology did not mediate the relationship between workplace spirituality and employee engagement although the exchange ideology mediated the relationship between two predictors namely self-efficacy and person-organization fit to employee engagement.

Keywords: Workplace spirituality; self-efficacy; person-organization fit; exchange ideology; employee engagement.

Sources: https://ejournal.ukm.my/pengurusan/article/view/21177