Ying Xu1, Ping Guo2, Wenxia Zhou1,*
International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.21, No.1, pp. 31-44, 2019, DOI:10.32604/IJMHP.2019.010742
Abstract Work engagement is a crucial positive psychological construct related
to mental health. However, current self-directed and boundaryless career trend
brings unprecedented challenges for organizations to foster employee engagement
using traditional means. From an integrative perspective of the engagement theory
and the career boundaryless theory, we built a model to test the moderating effect
of person-vocation fit and trust in supervisor on the relationship between future
work self and work engagement. After conducting a two-wave study with a sample
of 231 employees, we found that future work-self was positively related to work
engagement; and both person-vocation More >