Developing Hypotheses and Theoretical Verification of Antecedents of Organization Engagement that Contribute to Clarification of Employee Engagement
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https://doi.org/10.52731/lbds.003.122Keywords:
Antecedent, Employee Engagement, Factor, Organization Engagement, Structural Equation ModelingAbstract
Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) has required listed companies to disclose their human capital effective from April 2023 so that investors can confirm whether the company has the human resources to execute its growth strategy. Human capital includes employee engagement (EE), whose importance has become widely known. On the other hand, a number of priors have researched on antecedents and clarified many of them in foreign countries where engagement has already been broadly widespread. Furthermore, researches on the antecedents are still ongoing. In order to further clarify the antecedents of EE in Japanese companies, authors have formulated a hypothesis based on a new concept of engagement that supports Bernard’s organization theory previously proposed by the authors. Then a model is developed to test the hypothesis. This paper discusses the proposed model and its theoretical verification.
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