Antecedents And Consequences Of Work Engage.Ment: A Study Among Engineers In The Electrical And Electronics Sector In Penang

Mat Saad, Abu Bakri (2009) Antecedents And Consequences Of Work Engage.Ment: A Study Among Engineers In The Electrical And Electronics Sector In Penang. Masters thesis, Universiti Sains Malaysia.

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Abstract

Kajian ini dijalankan untuk mengenalpasti sebab dan akibat penceburan dalam kerja (work management) di kalangan jurutera di dalam sektor pekilangan elektrik dan electronik. Antara sebab penceburan dalam kelja ialah beban keija dan sumber kerja. Pembolehubah untuk beban kerja ialah beban kuantitatitl, beban emosi dan beban kognirif. Manakala sumber kerja adalah autonomi, sokongan penyelia, sokongan organisasi, keadilan distributif dan keadilan prosedur. Natijah akibat penceburan dalam keija merangkumi kepuasan keijaya, keinginan berhenti keija, komitmen organisasi dan prestasi kerja. Sebanyak 178 set soalselidik telah likutip dari responden terdiri dari jurutera yang bekeija dalam 20 kilang pembuatan elektrik dan elektronik di Pulau Pinang. Data yang dianalisa menunjukkan beban kuantitatif mempunyai perhubungan serapan (absorption). Behan kognitif dan beban emosi tidak mempunyai perkaitan langsung dengan semua dimensi penceburan dalam kerja Kedua-dua sokongan penyelia dan keadilan distributif mempunyai perkaitan positif dengan semangat kerja (vigor). Disamping itu, sokongan organisasi· mempunyai perkaitan positif dengan ledikasi dan keadilan prosedur pula mempunyai perkaitan positif dengan serapan. This research studied the antecedents and consequences of work engagement among engineers in electrical and electronics manufacturing firms in Penang. Tne antecedents for work engagement were job demand and job resources. Job demand variables were quantitative demand, emotional demand and cognitive demand. Whereas job resources variables were job autonomy, perceived supervisory support and perceived organization support, distributive justice and procedural justice. The consequences of work engagement consist of work related outcomes, career satisfaction, turnover intention, organization commitment and task pertormance. A total of 178 sets of questionnaires were collected from the respondents who were engineers working in 20 electrical and electronics manufacturing firms in Penang. Data was subsequently analyzed show that quantitative demand has a )()Sitive relationship with absorption. Cognitive demand and emotional demand had no relationship with all dimensions of work engagement. Both perceived supervisory support PSS) and distributive justice (DJ) were found to be positively related to vigor. Similarly, perceived organizational support (POS) was found to have a positive relationship with dedication whereas procedural justice (PJ) has a positive relationship with absorption.

Item Type: Thesis (Masters)
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HF Commerce > HF5001-6182 Business
Divisions: Pusat Pengajian Siswazah Perniagaan (Graduate School of Business) > Thesis
Depositing User: Mr Noorazilan Noordin
Date Deposited: 09 Mar 2017 02:32
Last Modified: 17 Apr 2017 06:23
URI: http://eprints.usm.my/id/eprint/32360

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