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GENERATIVE CHARACTERISTICS AS ANTECEDENTS OF PERFORMANCE ABSTRACT Organizations and their members at all levels are increasingly expected to perform, adapt, and to do ‘more with less’. Positive psychology and appreciative inquiry inform us that as organizations strive to become more productive, innovative, and agile their interests and objectives are well-served by understanding that they have at-hand greater capacity for performance and learning than perhaps they had realized. Positive psychology emphasizes the role of character strengths and virtues suggesting that individual characteristics, whether dispositional or acquired, differentiate between those who are better able to contribute to organizational performance and learning and those who are less so. Appreciative inquiry emphasizes relational characteristics as key distinctions. These characteristics are generative in nature; they are pragmatic and theoretical, positive and normative. This study examines the effects of selected individual and relational characteristics on organization member psychological engagement in work performance and self-development, and offers some insights to intervention design. Analysis of data captured from a not-for-profit healthcare organization suggests that: (1) individual characteristics have limited and negative effects on psychological engagement, (2) relational characteristics have positive effects on psychological engagement, and (3) women and men use distinctly different mechanisms to translate individual and relational characteristics into psychological engagement. This paper addresses these relationships in one organization at one point in time and therefore readers should be cautious in generalizing the results. Key words: Engagement, shared values, peer trust, leadership, gratitude, generative. 2
TABLE OF CONTENTS Abstract..................................................................................................................................... 2 Introduction............................................................................................................................... 4 Theory and Hypotheses Development...................................................................................... 6 Research Method .................................................................................................................... 12 Analysis and Findings............................................................................................................. 22 Discussion............................................................................................................................... 26 Limitations .............................................................................................................................. 29 Implications............................................................................................................................. 30 Conclusions............................................................................................................................. 31 Appendices Appendix A: Survey Instrument Items and Sources.................................................. 32 Appendix B: Item Correlations and Descriptive Statistics: Pearson Correlations.... 35 Appendix C: Exploratory Factor Analysis................................................................. 36 Appendix D: Final CFA Measurement Model........................................................... 37 Appendix E: Analysis of Method Bias ...................................................................... 38 Appendix F: Female Engagement.............................................................................. 39 Appendix G: Male Engagement................................................................................. 40 References............................................................................................................................... 41 List of Figures Figure 1: Conceptual Model ...................................................................................... 12 Figure 2: Hypothesized Model Constrained for Method Bias................................... 18 List of Tables Table 1: Data Collection Sources .............................................................................. 13 Table 2: Description of Respondent Profile............................................................... 14 Table 3: Descriptive Statistics and Intercorrelations among the Constructs: Pearson Correlations .................................................................................... 16 Table 4: Analysis of Convergent and Discriminate Validity: Unconstrained .......... 17 Table 5: Factor Loadings and Measurement Properties Derived from CMV- Constrained CFA Model.............................................................................. 20 Table 6: Construct Reliability Comparison ............................................................... 21 Table 7: Mediation Tests: Mathieu & Taylor (2006)................................................. 22 Table 8: Hypothesis Test Results............................................................................... 23 Table 9: Estimated Coefficients and Nomological Relationships for the Female and Male Models.......................................................................................... 26 3
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