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

Abstract

Purpose

The 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/approach

Data were collected through questionnaires from 487 banking employees from 60 branches of ten banks.

Findings

Analysis 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/value

This 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.

Citation

Ahmed, I., Rehman, W.-u., Ali, F., Ali, G. and Anwar, F. (2018), "Predicting employee performance through organizational virtuousness: Mediation by affective well-being and work engagement", Journal of Management Development, Vol. 37 No. 6, pp. 493-502. https://doi.org/10.1108/JMD-04-2017-0115