Relationships Among Leaders' and Followers' Work Engagement and Followers' Subjective Career Success: A Multilevel Approach

Abstract

Using a sample of 52 work teams (52 work team leaders and their 348 followers) in China, we investigated the influence mechanism of leaders' work engagement on their followers' work engagement and subjective career success. A multilevel structural equation model (MSEM) was applied to analyze the survey data. The results of this study indicated that leaders' work engagement positively influenced their followers' subjective career success, and this relationship was mediated by the followers' work engagement. Implications of these findings, limitations, and directions for future research are discussed in the final section of the paper.

Career identity and career success among Chinese male nurses: The mediating role of work engagement

“…This is consistent with the results of Hirschi's research (Hirschi, 2012 ). When individuals invest more in their work, they will find a sense of existence and achievement, and that will help to achieve career success (Q. Chen et al, 2021 ). Therefore, work engagement plays a good intermediary role between male nurses' career identity and career success.…”

“…In addition, active work engagement is conducive to obtain positive feedback at work and improve the level of work performance, so as to obtain a good sense of career success experience, that is, it helps to promote individual career success (Q. Chen et al, 2021 ; Hoşgör et al, 2021 ). At present, the survey investigating the male nurse's career success is limited.…”

“…In addition, we attempted to explore the mechanisms through which career identity enhances male nurses' career success. Past studies have found that career identity is positively related to work engagement (Hirschi, 2012 ; Sun et al, 2022 ) and work engagement is positively related career success (Q. Chen et al, 2021 ). Accordingly, we believe that career identity, work engagement and career success are related, and work engagement may serve as an intervening mechanism between career identity and career success.…”

How to Promote the Agricultural Company Through Environmental Social Responsibility to Achieve Sustainable Production?

“…Although ESR and EE can be analyzed at the individual level, they may be yielded as organizational-level variables (Jones et al, 2017;Chen et al, 2021). Indeed, the theory of the context model (Firebaugh, 1980) and the theory of social cognition (Bandura, 1986) both believe that individual behavior can be influenced by the environmental atmosphere and individual systems (e.g., organization-level and individual-level EE) at the same time, thereby suggesting the relationship between organization-level and individual-level EE to individual-level EI.…”

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