The Influence Of Organizational Climate On Work Engagement Of The New Generation Of Knowledge Workers:The Chain Mediating Effect Of Job Crafting And Work Meaning

With the intensification of social competition,the number of young workers who adopt a “Quiet quitting” attitude is increasing,with a “quiet quitting” mentality and behavior has adverse effects on the personal growth of young workers,as well as the development of organizations,society and even the whole country.How to improve the work engagement of “quiet quitting” workers? This paper takes the new generation of knowledge workers as the object,based on the demand-resource model theory,explores the impact of three variables: Organizational climate(organizational resources),Job crafting(individual resources)and Work meaning(individual resources)on Work engagement,and examines the underlying mechanisms through two studies.This study is divided into two parts.In the first study,120 students were investigated in four organizational situations by using the situational simulation experiment method.By manipulating the two independent variables of organizational climate and job crafting,we explored the relationship between organizational climate and job crafting.the analysis of variance shows that :(1)Organizational climate has a significant positive effect on work engagement(F = 309.073,p < 0.001);(2)Organizational climate has a significant positive effect on job crafting(F = 158.820,p < 0.001);(3)There was a significant interaction between organizational climate and job crafting(F = 7.813,p < 0.01).In the second study,479 questionnaires(completion rate 95.8 %)were collected from the new generation of knowledge workers in China,and the influence mechanism between organizational climate,job crafting,work meaning and work engagement of the new generation of knowledge workers was discussed.The results of regression analysis showed that :(1)Job crafting played a partial mediating role between organizational climate and job involvement(t =10.678,p <0.001);(2)Work meaning plays a partial mediating role between job crafting and work engagement(t =22.660,p <0.001).(3)Organizational climate positively affects work engagement through the chain mediating effect of job crafting and work meaning(t =4.947、t =4.481、t =18.270,p <0.001).Conclusion: Organizational climate not only directly enhances work engagement of new-generation knowledge workers,but also indirectly increases their work engagement by facilitating their job crafting and strengthening their sense of work meaning.The better the overall climate of the organization,the more it stimulates the job crafting behavior of new generation knowledge workers,which in turn enhances their work meaning and their level of engagement in work.