Reverse mentoring and job crafting as resources for health: a work engagement mediation model
Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance
ISSN: 2051-6614
Article publication date: 13 September 2021
Issue publication date: 1 February 2022
Abstract
Purpose
This paper examines whether employee-driven practices of reverse mentoring and job crafting lead to work engagement and, in turn, to higher levels of prospective mental and physical health.
Design/methodology/approach
Integrating social exchange theory and the job demands and resources model as theoretical frameworks, survey data were collected from 369 Indian software developers to test the research model. Latent variable structural equation modeling was used to empirically test the hypothesized associations.
Findings
The findings reveal that both reverse mentoring and job crafting are significantly associated with work engagement. Work engagement fully mediated the negative relationship between 1) reverse mentoring and mental ill-health and 2) job crafting and physical ill-health, while it partially mediated the negative relationship between 1) reverse mentoring and physical ill-health and 2) job crafting and mental ill-health.
Practical implications
The results demonstrate that by implementing the practices of reverse mentoring and job crafting, managers can achieve desired levels of engagement among employees and sustain organizational productivity by promoting employee health and well-being.
Originality/value
This study is one of the early attempts to empirically demonstrate the associated health outcomes of reverse mentoring and job crafting.
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Citation
Garg, N., Murphy, W.M. and Singh, P. (2022), "Reverse mentoring and job crafting as resources for health: a work engagement mediation model", Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance, Vol. 9 No. 1, pp. 110-129. https://doi.org/10.1108/JOEPP-12-2020-0245
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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