Engagement Climate: Conceptualization, Model and Hypotheses

Abstract

Based on the construct of organizational climate, we first addresses the conceptualization of engagement climate. Then the authors build a cross level model to explore its team-level antecedents and team-and individual-level outcomes. We argue that: Servant leadership is positively related to the team engagement climate, Team engagement climate partially mediates the relationship between servant leadership and the team performance, Servant leadership is positively related to Job engagement, Job engagement partially mediates the relationship between servant leadership and employees' task performance and OCB; and A team's engagement climate will moderate the relationship between servant leadership and job engagement, such that the relationship will be more strongly positive within teams with higher engagement climate. Contributions and limitations are discussed in the end.