Will Overtime Work Have Impacts On Work Engagement And Subjective Career Success?

Overtime work is commonplace in the workplace,and the dispute caused by such negative cases as "overwork" and "996" have been endless.This undoubtably reflects further studies on the employee management,especially the staff time conflicts and banlance between work and life in the current labor market.How to deal with these conflicts caused by overtime work and solve them? It is a hot topic in organizational behaviors(OB)and human resources management(HRM)field by management scholars and practitioners.In this paper,we explore the practical problems related to overtime work in depth,combined with literature review and preliminary investigation.We focus on the two main research questions: first,can employees overtime work have a positive impact on their work engagement and subjective career success? Second,how exactly does this impact process occur,and is there some mediation and moderation?We select representative enterprises and institutions staff to carry out in-depth interviews and preliminary investigation to obtain first-hand data,comb the existing literature research,transform the research questions into operable research variables,and based on job demand-resource theory and transactional theory of stress.From the perspective of the two theories to construct a theoretical hypothesis model.Next,we make research design,carry out the pre-investigation and analyze the results,and modify and improve;the formal investigation is divided into two time points to send out questionnaire,after screening and matching,finally get 209 valid questionnaires.Then,we use mathematical statistics analysis tool to analyze the sample data.The results show that overtime is positively related to felt job challenge,felt job challenge is positively related to work engagement and subjective career success.Felt job challenge mediates the relationship between overtime and work engagement,overtime and subjective career success.Harmonious passion promotes the positive impact of overtime on felt job challenge.And obsessive passion has no obvious moderating impact.Finally,this paper further summarizes the research results and discussions,and proposed that the job design of should set up reasonable challenging job demands,provide key and effective job resources,mobilize harmonious passion and other management,and summarize the shortcomings of this study and put forward the future research direction.