Job passion in the context of green restaurant: Environmental stewardship orientation and job autonomy as antecedents

Abstract

Job passion has recently gained increasing attention, as it is crucial to employee well-being and performance. To simultaneously highlight the current trends with regard to environmental issues and organizational psychology, this article investigates the potential antecedents (i.e. environmental stewardship orientation (ESO) and job autonomy) and consequences (i.e. job satisfaction, life satisfaction, and intention to leave) of harmonious job passion among employees working in green restaurants in Taiwan. Data collected from 299 valid samples were analyzed using structural equation modeling. The results indicate that employees’ ESO and perceived job autonomy positively affect their harmonious job passion. Besides, employees with harmonious job passion may have positive job- and life-related outcomes, including high job and life satisfaction, and low intention to leave. The theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed, and directions for future research are identified.

Does one size fit all? The role of job characteristics in cultivating work passion across knowledge, blue‐collar, nonprofit, and managerial work

“…Additionally, prior research testing the relationships between job autonomy (Chen et al, 2020;Gao & Jiang, 2019), job resources (Trépanier et al, 2014), and job demands conceptualized those constructs as antecedents of work passion. Such studies provide additional support for the directionality of the relationships proposed in our research model.…”

“…We extend the passion literature by shifting the discourse from dispositional to contextual influences on passion. By proposing the mediating role of work meaningfulness, we go beyond the investigations of direct relationships between a few job characteristics and work passion that have been conducted (Chen et al, 2020; Gao & Jiang, 2019; Trépanier et al, 2014) and advance the theoretically relevant mechanism translating job characteristics into work passion. On a broader level, the underlying complexity of work passion formation that our study unveiled calls for future integrations of HRM and organizational behavior theories to better understand other complex organizational phenomena.…”

“…Specifically, work meaningfulness and work motivation are typically posited as a positive function of the employee's perceptions of job characteristics (e.g., Hackman & Oldham, 1975) and not vice versa. Additionally, prior research testing the relationships between job autonomy (Chen et al, 2020; Gao & Jiang, 2019), job resources (Trépanier et al, 2014), and job demands conceptualized those constructs as antecedents of work passion. Such studies provide additional support for the directionality of the relationships proposed in our research model.…”

Empowering green minds: the role of job embeddedness, environmental commitment and job autonomy in promoting pro-environmental behavior

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“…Depending on distinct goals, entrepreneurs make various efforts, which in turn affect their passion (Gielnik et al, 2017). There is a multitude of motivations involved in starting a venture, and the differences in motivational constructs affect entrepreneurs’ self-concept and identity and cause variation in their passion toward the work (Chen et al, 2020; Murnieks et al, 2014; Sastre-Castillo et al, 2015). Social entrepreneurs’ motives, therefore, can explain the formation and maintenance of their passion.…”