Today, public organizations also need employees with work engagement who actively change their roles and achieve creative results with passion. In the public sector, unlike the private sector, compensation for performance is minimal and promotion oppo...
Today, public organizations also need employees with work engagement who actively change their roles and achieve creative results with passion. In the public sector, unlike the private sector, compensation for performance is minimal and promotion opportunities and wage increases are limited, so organizational managers have no choice but to view improving employees' work engagement as a difficult task.
The purpose of this study is to present clue information for improving the work engagement of central government officials and to provide basic data on how organizational managers should provide education and training and support for organizational adaptation of members. In previous studies, there was a lack of research on work engagement for public officials in central government agencies, and there was little research that demonstrated the mediating effect of self-efficacy. In this study, we focused on work engagement, which implies positive emotions and practical dedication to the job, and self-efficacy, which is one of the positive psychological capitals.
For the study, we hypothesized that perceived organizational support, job resources, and intrinsic motivation would each have a positive (+) effect on work engagement and self-efficacy. In addition, a hypothesis was constructed by inferring that self-efficacy would mediate each variable in the relationship between perceived organizational support, job resources, intrinsic motivation, and work engagement.
In order to verify the hypothesis established in this study, a survey was conducted targeting public officials at S agency of the central government. Based on the valid survey results of 339 people, multiple regression analysis and hierarchical regression analysis were conducted using the SPSS statistical program. In addition, the mediation effect was verified using bootstrapping Model 4 of SPSS Macro Process.
The analysis results are as follows. First, in the influence relationship between perception of organizational support, job resources, intrinsic motivation, and work engagement, perception of organizational support and intrinsic motivation showed a positive relationship. This suggests that members should be made aware of organizational support and supported to perform their jobs with a sense of accomplishment, satisfaction, and pride, which are intrinsic motivation levels.
Second, in the relationship between perceived organizational support, job resources, intrinsic motivation, and self-efficacy, job resources and intrinsic motivation showed a positive relationship. This confirmed that job autonomy, self-development, and feedback, which are sub-factors of job resources, play a role in increasing self-efficacy, and that intrinsic motivation and self-efficacy have a significant influence on each other as positive psychological capital.
Third, self-efficacy had a positive result on work engagement. This can be seen that if members have faith that they will do their job well, they will be more enthusiastic about their work.
Fourth, self-efficacy had a mediating effect on the effects of perceived organizational support, job resources, and intrinsic motivation on work engagement. These results mean that even if the perception of organizational support, job resources, and intrinsic motivation have an effect on work engagement, work engagement increases when it affects work engagement through self-efficacy.
In conclusion, in order to improve members' work engagement, organizational managers need to increase self-efficacy by operating individual strength strengthening training and self-efficacy improvement programs. If public servants' self-efficacy improves and their work attitude or behavior improves and their engagement for work increases, it will lead to improved organizational performance and improved quality of public services, which will ultimately lead to people's trust in the government.