연결성과 직무자율성이 구성원의 번영감과 직장생활만족에 미치는 영향: 번영감의 하위 구성차원별 분석

Abstract

Thriving at work is a joint psychological sense of vitality and learning at work, which communicates a feeling of progress or forward movement in one’s self development. Since the construct and conceptual model of thriving were first raised many years ago, considerable researches have been made to investigate the antecedents and consequences of thriving at work. The primary goal of this study is also to examine the antecedent and consequential factors of thriving at work, but which were rarely inquired up to now. We considered connectivity and job autonomy as the antecedents of thriving at work, and examined it’s consequential effect on employees’ working-life satisfaction. And we explored these relationships not only in the level of the construct of thriving, but also in the level of two components of the construct, that is vitality and learning. For this research, we conducted a survey on employees working in Korean National Park Service(KNPS) on two separate points in time, with a lag of three weeks. The results of analysis indicated that connectivity and job autonomy of employees were positively related to their thriving at work. And thriving at work had positive impact on their working-life satisfaction. Moreover, as expected in the hypothesis, the mediating role of thriving at work was observed in the relationships between the antecedent and outcome variables. Somewhat different mediating paths, however, were observed depending on the two components of thriving, vitality and learning. The managerial implications of these findings and future research directions were then discussed.