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Interactive effects of disruptive environmental events and job characteristics on job engagement: Integrating event- and feature-oriented approaches

Melina Posch et al.

German Journal of Human Resource Management2025https://doi.org/10.1177/23970022251339432article
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Abstract

In addition to changes within an organization, disruptive events in employees’ broader environment may have an impact on their experience at work. However, the influence of recurring environmental events on employees’ job engagement and the potential moderating role of job characteristics are not yet well understood. Based on event system theory, we hypothesized declines in employees’ physical, cognitive, and emotional job engagement in reaction to disruptive environmental events. We additionally considered the role of event novelty and four important job characteristics (i.e. workload, job autonomy, supervisor, and coworker support) for these effects. Data were provided by 652 employees in Germany, who participated in a longitudinal study with 20 measurement waves between December 2019 and September 2021, and across two national pandemic lockdowns in Germany. Results showed a decline in all three facets of job engagement due to the first disruptive environmental event, but only negligible changes when the event recurred. Declines in physical and cognitive engagement were stronger for the first event compared to the second event. Findings regarding the moderating role of job characteristics only partially supported our hypotheses. For example, higher levels of workload strengthened the decline in physical and cognitive engagement due to the first occurrence of the event, whereas lower coworker support was associated with a stronger decrease in emotional engagement due to the second event. Human resource management should consider how to design jobs that help employees maintain high levels of job engagement, even in the face of disruptive environmental events. Overall, this study contributes to the literature by integrating event- and feature-oriented approaches to employee experiences.

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@article{melina2025,
  title        = {{Interactive effects of disruptive environmental events and job characteristics on job engagement: Integrating event- and feature-oriented approaches}},
  author       = {Melina Posch et al.},
  journal      = {German Journal of Human Resource Management},
  year         = {2025},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/23970022251339432},
}

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M · momentum0.55 × 0.15 = 0.08
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