Fluctuating levels of personal role engagement within the working day: a multilevel study

Luke Fletcher; Catherine Bailey; Mark Gilman

doi:10.1111/1748-8583.12168

Fluctuating levels of personal role engagement within the working day: a multilevel study

Luke Fletcher^*, Catherine Bailey, Mark Gilman

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In this diary study, we examined a theoretical model in which the psychological conditions of meaningfulness, availability, and safety serve as mechanisms through which the work context during discrete situations within the workday influences ‘state’ engagement. We further theorised that a person’s ‘trait’ level of engagement would exert cross-level effects on the ‘state’ level relationships. Multilevel analyses based on a sample of 124 individuals in six organisations and 1,446 situational observations revealed that meaningfulness and availability (but not safety) mediated the relationships between perceptions of the work context and ‘state’ engagement. High levels of ‘trait’ engagement strengthened the within-person relation between availability and ‘state’ engagement, yet weakened the within-person relation between meaningfulness and ‘state’ engagement; suggesting two different processes may be at play. Overall, the findings advance our understanding of engagement as a multilevel and temporally dynamic psychological phenomenon, and promote a contextually-based HRM approach to facilitating engagement.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	128-147
Journal	Human Resource Management Journal
Volume	28
Issue number	1
Early online date	11 Sept 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12168
Publication status	Published - 11 Jan 2018

Bibliographical note

This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Fletcher, L., Bailey, C., & Gilman, M. (2017). Fluctuating levels of personal role engagement within the working day: a multilevel study. Human Resource Management Journal, in press, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.121688. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.

Keywords

availability
meaningfulness
personal role engagement
resources
safety

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Fluctuating levels of personal role engagement within the working day
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Fletcher, L., Bailey, C., & Gilman, M. (2017). Fluctuating levels of personal role engagement within the working day: a multilevel study. Human Resource Management Journal, in press, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.121688. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.
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