2023/10/04 by Shumaila Hafeez, Mumtaz Ali Memon, Muhammad Zeeshan Mirza +3 · 25 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Health Professions · Psychology · #Applied psychology #Burnout #Clinical psychology #Computer science #Employee engagement #Happiness #Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout #Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior #Job analysis #Job attitude #Job design #Job performance #Job satisfaction #Originality #Personnel psychology #Political science #Psychology #Public relations #Social psychology #Structural equation modeling #Variety (cybernetics) #Workplace Health and Well-being
paper · doi:10.1108/jmd-03-2023-0084
published in Journal of Management Development 43(2), 170-186 (Emerald Publishing Limited)
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Purpose The objectives of this study are twofold: firstly, to examine the effect of job variety on employee engagement and job burnout, and the effect of employee engagement and job burnout on employee happiness and job stress, respectively. Secondly, it examines the mediating role of employee engagement between job variety and employee happiness, as well as the mediating role of job burnout between job variety and job stress. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from front-line nurses working in the health sector in Pakistan's major cities. A total of 169 samples were collected using online and face-to-face data collection approaches. The theoretical model was tested using the Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) in SmartPLS 4.0. Findings The findings of this study highlight that job variety has a positive impact on employee engagement, which in turn leads to employee happiness among professional frontline nurses. Additionally, job variety as a demand increases employee burnout, which subsequently increases frontline nurses' job stress. The results also indicate that employee engagement mediates the relationship between job variety and employee happiness, while burnout mediates the relationship between job variety and job stress. Originality/value To date, there has been little research investigating the dual impact of job variety, leaving a significant gap in the existing literature. This study aims to address this gap and provide implications for both academics and HR managers by challenging the misconception that job variety is always a positive job resource.