Predicting employee performance through organizational virtuousness Mediation by affective well-being and work engagement

• Published in: The Journal of management development Vol. 37; no. 6; pp. 493 - 502
• Main Authors: Ahmed, Ishfaq, Rehman, Wasim-ul, Ali, Fouzia, Ali, Ghulam, Anwar, Farooq
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bradford Emerald Group Publishing Limited 04-07-2018
• Subjects: Academic Language; Behavior; Citizenship; Emotions; Employee involvement; Employees; Hypotheses; Imitation; Integrity; Investigations; Job Performance; Learning Theories; Mediation; Mental Health; Modeling (Psychology); Observational Learning; Operant Conditioning; Organizational behavior; Perceptions; Performance appraisal; Positive Attitudes; Researchers; Socialization; Stimuli; Structural equation modeling; Studies; Values; Work environment
• ISSN: 0262-1711; 1758-7492
• DOI: 10.1108/JMD-04-2017-0115

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to value the role of organizational virtuousness in predicting employee performance through mediation of affective well-being and work engagement.Design/methodology/approachData were collected through questionnaires from 487 banking employees from 60 branches of ten banks.FindingsAnalysis through structural equation modeling proves that virtuousness positively predicts employees’ well-being and engagement, which in turn influence their performance. Furthermore, both well-being and engagement proved to be partial mediation in the relation, where well-being had stronger explanatory role.Originality/valueThis study offers novel explanatory mechanism in the relationship of employee performance and organizational virtuousness, where in past studies such mediation mechanism has not received due attention.