Abstract
Organizations are increasingly being responsible for providing good and healthy work environment that can help in supporting employees performing their duties. Supportive work environment can increase the degree of employee engagement, which in turn, makes them more attached to their roles. The purpose of the current study is two-folded: to investigate the effect of work environment on engagement, and to test ethical decision making as a mediator between environment and engagement. Data were collected from a sample of 237 employees from transportation corporations listed on the Amman Stock Exchange (2019) in Jordan. Structural equation modeling was utilized to test the model. Results proposed that engagement was significantly related to work environment and ethical decision-making. Work environment has a greater effect on employee engagement than on ethical decision-making. Moreover, the effect of ethical decision-making on employee engagement was greater than the effect of work engagement on ethical decision-making. Furthermore, the study yielded support for the claim that ethical decision-making played a significant role in the relationship between work environment and employee engagement. Therefore, employees having good working conditions and making ethical decisions tend to get higher levels of employee engagement.
Highlights
Enhancing and promoting of work environment can raise employee engagement via ethical decision-making among transportation corporations
The present study aimed to test the influence of work environment on employee engagement, and investigate ethical decision-making as a mediator between work environment and employee engagement
The study provides empirical evidence that work environment has a positive influence on employee engagement and decision-making
Summary
Organizations face challenges on how to build and increase the level of employee engagement. It can be considered as a competitive advantage if organizations recruit leaders who can have good social communications with their followers, and can stimulate employee engagement (Miller & Miller, 2020). The concept of ethical decision-making has been an area of interest for many practitioners and scholars because it is considered one of the main factors that affect employee behaviors in organizations. Jones (1991) proved that work environment could influence ethical decision-making. This paper seeks to establish whether employee engagement is related to work environment, and whether ethical decision-making can be a mediator of the relationship between environment and engagement. Yusliza et al (2020) revealed that supportive work environment and retention are related to work environment
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