Enhancing Work Engagement Towards Performance Improvement

Underpinned by role expansionist perspective, this study examined why and how family-to-work enhancement is related to work engagement leading to an improvement in task and contextual performance. Controlling for family-to-work conflict and job autonomy, the results revealed that consistent with our predictions, work engagement mediated the relationships for family-to-work enhancement with task and contextual performance. Moderated mediation analyses further revealed that work engagement mediated the relationships for (a) task performance for only those supervisors who were supportive to their subordinates’ work-family issues; and (b) contextual performance, regardless of supervisor’s level of support. Results highlighted the importance of supportive supervisors or family-friendly work environment when examining the relationships between enhancement, engagement, and job performance.

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