Exploring the role of employability: the relationship between health-promoting leadership, workplace relational civility and employee engagement
ISSN: 0025-1747
Article publication date: 8 August 2023
Issue publication date: 24 August 2023
Abstract
Purpose
Drawing upon self-determination theory, this study investigates the direct and indirect impact of health-promoting leadership on employee engagement via workplace relational civility and explores the moderating effect of employability on these factors.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors collected a total of 723 matched and valid responses from nurses in Guangxi, China. Data regarding health-promoting leadership, workplace relational civility, employability and employee engagement were gathered using a survey administered in two waves, 1 week apart. The authors utilised structural equation modelling and linear regression to test the model.
Findings
This study reveals that health-promoting leadership has both direct and indirect positive effects on nurses' engagement through workplace relational civility. Furthermore, the authors found that employability negatively moderates the impact of workplace relational civility on nurses' engagement but does not moderate the impact of health-promoting leadership on nurses' engagement.
Originality/value
This is one of the few studies that have examined the effects of health-promoting leadership within the nursing industry. The authors confirm the importance of health-promoting leadership and workplace relationship civility on employee engagement. In addition, this study demonstrates the moderating role of employability in employment relationships.
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Acknowledgements
Funding: This work was supported by the 2023 Annual Project of the Fourteenth Five-Year Plan of Guangxi Educational Science: Research on the perception of the employment environment and adaptability of college graduates in Guangxi under Grant 2023JD14.
Conflict of interest statement: The authors are not aware of any conflict of interest in relation to the research reported in this paper.
Corrigendum: It has come to the attention of the publisher that the article by Zhang, C. and Liu, L. (2023), “Exploring the role of employability: the relationship between health-promoting leadership, workplace relational civility and employee engagement”, published in Management Decision, Vol. 61 No. 9, pp. 2582-2602, https://doi.org/10.1108/MD-05-2022-0717, features several errors relating to the study samples used. Specifically, among the 723 study samples, 20 samples did not match the study objectives, which has led to the deletion of 20 samples and the need to re-analyze the data with 703 samples; this in turn means that the data reported in Tables 1-5 are not correct. The correct tables will be available on request by the authors, but this corrigendum does not invalidate the article’s findings nor make them unreliable. The authors sincerely apologise for this mistake.
Citation
Zhang, C. and Liu, L. (2023), "Exploring the role of employability: the relationship between health-promoting leadership, workplace relational civility and employee engagement", Management Decision, Vol. 61 No. 9, pp. 2582-2602. https://doi.org/10.1108/MD-05-2022-0717
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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