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Engaged employees assure organizational competitiveness and sustainability. The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between job resources and employee turnover intentions, with employee engagement as a mediating variable.

Data were collected from 934 employees of eight wholly-owned pharmaceutical industries. The proposed model and hypotheses were evaluated using structural equation modeling. Construct reliability and validity was established through confirmatory factor analysis.

Data supported the hypothesized relationship. The results show that job autonomy and employee engagement were significantly associated. Supervisory support and employee engagement were significantly associated. However, performance feedback and employee engagement were nonsignificantly associated. Employee engagement had a significant influence on employee turnover intentions. The results further show that employee engagement mediates the association between job resources and employee turnover intentions.

The generalizability of the findings will be constrained due to the research’s pharmaceutical industry focus and cross-sectional data.

The study’s findings will serve as valuable pointers for stakeholders and decision-makers in the pharmacuetical industry to develop a proactive and well-articulated employee engagement intervention to ensure organizational effectiveness, innovativeness and competitiveness.

By empirically demonstrating that employee engagement mediates the nexus of job resources and employee turnover intentions, the study adds to the corpus of literature.

The purpose of this paper is to identify key sustainability enablers that are crucial for resilient humanitarian supply chains (RHSCs) during natural calamities and pandemics. It also aims to subsequently rank them using the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to assess their importance. The goal is to enhance stakeholders’ understanding, enabling them to implement effective strategies to mitigate disruptions and safeguard RHSCs.

This study applied the fuzzy AHP as part of the multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) framework to prioritize sustainability enablers that are crucial for the resilience of humanitarian supply chains (RHSCs).

The research findings indicate that the operational enablers category is the most critical, followed by the infrastructural and environmental categories, which rank as the second and third most critical, respectively. Among the sub-categories, “Hyper-connectivity,” “Renewable energy sources for infrastructure” and “Sustainable procurement and sourcing practices” are identified as the top three, highlighting the urgency for immediate attention.

While this research provides valuable insights, it also presents some limitations and opens new avenues for future study. First, the study predominantly focuses on natural calamities and pandemics, potentially overlooking other catastrophic events that could jeopardize humanitarian supply chains. Second, to eliminate potential biases and develop a more robust model, it would have been beneficial to explore other modern MCDM methods. It is possible that these alternative MCDM techniques might yield better results than fuzzy AHP. Future research could explore a broader range of crises to comprehensively address the varied dynamics influencing Resilient Humanitarian Supply Chains (RHSCs) while also experimenting with different cutting-edge MCDM methods. Additionally, future research could dive deeper into the top-ranked technology enablers, particularly focusing on human-technology interactions within humanitarian supply chains, a topic that is currently being discussed among experts.

The manuscript emphasizes the importance of global preparedness and collaborative efforts among governments, nongovernmental organizations and communities. Through its discussion of social enablers, this study aims to develop RHSCs that prioritize the well-being of disaster-affected populations and individuals used in this field.

This research offers unique insights by ranking sustainability enablers for resilient humanitarian supply chains (RHSCs) amid natural calamities and pandemics, providing novel and actionable contributions.