The Role of Engaging Leadership on Work Engagement With Job Insecurity as Moderator Across Proximal Withdrawal States Situation

Abstract

Work engagement has an important role in employees’ performance. By having good engagement, employees will have enthusiasm, sense of pride, and positive feelings towards their works, hence it will bring positive implications for employees’ work performance, which can increase their productivity. In this study, work engagement is viewed from the leaders’ role in delivering engaging leadership and examined using job insecurity as the moderator variable. This study also considers the conditions of Proximal Withdrawal States (PWS) that divide the employees into four groups: enthusiastic stayers, reluctant leavers, enthusiastic leavers, and reluctant stayers. Using the cluster random sampling technique, 378 employees had been selected to participate in the research. The data was processed using multiple regression analysis with SPSS. The results show that job insecurity serves as a moderator for the relationship between engaging leadership and work engagement only in the enthusiastic leavers group (p <.05, R2 = .883). Nonetheless, the role of engaging leadership in work engagement is proven to influence the employees in the enthusiastic leavers and enthusiastic stayers groups.