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Investigating the role of optimism and resilience on the effect of work engagement on emotional exhaustion and workplace deviant behaviors

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  • Rumbidzai Chiyangwa,
  • Isaac Muponya
Rumbidzai Chiyangwa
School of economics, Zhejiang Gongshang University China
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Isaac Muponya
School of tourism and urban rural planning, Zhejiang Gongshang University China
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Published in : International Journal of Scientific Research and Management (IJSRM) , Vol. 12 No. 02 (2024)

Submission to VIJ 2024-02-21

Keywords

  • work engagement, optimism, emotional exhaustion, resilience, workplace deviant behavior

Abstract

Under what situations can work engagement predict emotional exhaustion? Working with the idea that work engagement and emotional exhaustion are two endpoints of a continuum, we relied on the conservation of resources (COR) theory – which evaluates them as two different variables – to undertake a multi-context, two-study research among bankers and miners. We asserted that work engagement would increase emotional exhaustion for people who are scaled lower in the optimism individual trait. Additionally, we recognized a three-way interaction, wherein work engagement heightened emotional exhaustion for less-optimistic persons who are also not resilient, while oppositely minimizing emotional exhaustion for high-optimism persons who are resilient. Our findings also lend credence to a moderated-mediation model, suggesting that when both optimism and resilience are high, deviant conduct in the workplace is reduced because workers are less emotionally exhausted from their work. We provide suggestions for future studies on work engagement and workplace deviant behavior.  

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