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The Relationship between Skill Variety, Boredom Proneness and Employee Engagement.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Relationship between Skill Variety, Boredom Proneness and Employee Engagement./
Author:	Ward, Brent Charles.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	160 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-04(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-04A(E).
Subject:	Organizational behavior. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10638285
ISBN:	9780355446975

The Relationship between Skill Variety, Boredom Proneness and Employee Engagement.
Ward, Brent Charles.

The Relationship between Skill Variety, Boredom Proneness and Employee Engagement. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 160 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-04(E), Section: A.

Thesis (D.B.A.)--Northcentral University, 2017.

This study addressed the relationship between a job's Skill Variety, an individual's Boredom Proneness, and employee Engagement. The problem was employee engagement in American higher education. This problem affects employees, administrators and students because low employee engagement associates with turnover, increased recruitment costs, and poor retention of students. The purpose of this quantitative, correlational study was to investigate the moderation properties of Boredom Proneness on the relationship between Skill Variety and employee Engagement. The research occurred in the context of a revised Job Characteristics Model in which Engagement replaced psychological states posited in the original Job Characteristics Model. A model of workplace boredom in which Boredom Proneness was believed to moderate a job's Skill Variety and Engagement also informed the hypothesis that Boredom Proneness moderates the relationship between these Skill Variety and Engagement. Non-student, domestic employees at an American private university provided 265 responses to a 19-question, online survey composed of the Skill Variety subscale of the Job Diagnostics Survey, the Short Boredom Proneness Survey, and the Utrecht Work Engagement scale. Within a Structural Equation Modeling process, confirmatory factor analysis revealed a unidimensional Skill Variety construct, a unidimensional Boredom Proneness construct, and a three-factor Engagement construct. Interaction moderation analysis of the structural equation revealed adequate fit of the data to the hypothesized moderation model, but a non-significant relationship (beta = -.04, p =0.64). Therefore, the hypothesis was not supported. However, the model also produced significant correlations between Skill Variety and Engagement as well as Boredom Proneness and Engagement (beta=0.41, p <.001; beta = -0.51, p <.001). The results suggest current models of engagement should be revised to depict Boredom Proneness as an antecedent of Engagement rather than a moderator. Results also suggest practitioners should screen candidate employees for Boredom Proneness if they wish to increase Engagement levels. Further, the results suggest scholars should investigate the influence of narrow personality traits on Engagement when a conceptual link exists between the construct and Engagement.

ISBN: 9780355446975Subjects--Topical Terms:

516683
Organizational behavior.

The Relationship between Skill Variety, Boredom Proneness and Employee Engagement.
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