Does employee work-related curiosity predict workplace thriving? The moderating role of core-self evaluations

IF 1.6 Q2 Business, Management and Accounting Evidence-based HRM-A Global Forum for Empirical Scholarship Pub Date : 2023-02-09 DOI:10.1108/ebhrm-07-2022-0164
Muhammd Usman, Yuxin Liu, Qaiser Mehmood, Usman Ghani
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PurposeGiven the increasing organizational need for having a thriving workforce due to the fast-growing and competitive knowledge-based service economy and growing demand to explore new factors that may benefit individuals to excel at work. Drawing upon the intrinsic motivation perspective, with a Chinese sample (N = 309), the authors aimed to investigate whether work-related curiosity (WRC) may create conditions that indirectly promote employees' workplace thriving via task focus and whether this mediation was moderated by an individual's personality difference, i.e. core-self evaluations.Design/methodology/approachA time-lagged study among full-time employees who happen to be part-time students in the executive development program was used to test the hypothesized model by employing a structural equation modeling approach.FindingsWRC showed a significant positive association with task focus which in turn was positively related to workplace thriving. Furthermore, as predicted, the positive association between WRC and workplace thriving via task focus was stronger for employees with high core self-evaluations compared to those with low core-self evaluations.Originality/valueThe results of this study suggest that an individual's WRC can be instrumental in augmenting workplace thriving by providing a scientific explanation for the underlying psychological process of task focus and identifying the factors associated with the process, such as core-self evaluations. This study contributes to extending the literature on significant employee outcomes, i.e. thriving at work, by offering new empirical and theoretical insights that WRC may play a critical role in the process and identifying a boundary condition of personality factor, i.e. core-self evaluations.
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员工对工作的好奇心是否预示着工作场所的繁荣?核心自我评价的调节作用
目的鉴于快速增长和竞争激烈的知识型服务经济以及探索有利于个人在工作中脱颖而出的新因素的需求不断增长,组织对拥有一支蓬勃发展的员工队伍的需求不断增加。基于内在动机视角,以中国样本(N=309)为样本,作者旨在调查与工作相关的好奇心(WRC)是否会创造条件,通过任务专注间接促进员工的工作场所繁荣,以及这种中介作用是否受到个人性格差异(即核心自我评价)的调节。设计/方法/方法采用结构方程建模方法,对碰巧是高管发展项目兼职学生的全职员工进行时间滞后研究,以检验假设模型。发现WRC与任务专注呈正相关,而任务专注又与工作场所的繁荣呈正相关。此外,正如预测的那样,与核心自我评价较低的员工相比,核心自我评价较高的员工的WRC与通过任务专注而蓬勃发展的工作场所之间的正相关更强。独创性/价值本研究的结果表明,个人的WRC可以通过对任务集中的潜在心理过程提供科学解释,并确定与该过程相关的因素,如核心自我评估,从而有助于增强工作场所的繁荣。这项研究通过提供新的经验和理论见解,即WRC可能在这一过程中发挥关键作用,并确定人格因素的边界条件,即核心自我评价,有助于扩展关于重要员工成果的文献,即在工作中茁壮成长。
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