1166: Job Reattachment and Engagement: The Role of Supervisory Dependence and Team Compassion (10480)

This research deals with the impact of the pandemic on the vocational behavior of employees. After working-from-home for about two years during the pandemic, employees were asked to return to work-from-office (fully or in the hybrid mode) in the post-COVID era. The present study data were collected from 250 supervisor-subordinate dyads and were time-lagged. Since employees demonstrated lack of willingness to return to work-from-office, we aimed to assess their level of reattachment and engagement with their jobs in the office environment and its impact on individual performance and work withdrawal behaviors. We further examined the moderating roles of supervisory dependence and team compassionate behavior. Our analyses showed that job reattachment had a significant positive impact on engagement. Further, supervisory dependence and team compassionate behavior significantly moderated the reattachment-engagement relationship. Engagement was found to be a significant mediator between job reattachment-performance and job reattachment-withdrawal relationships and moderated-mediation was also found to be significant. We discuss theoretical and practical implications of the study.

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