Understanding mindfulness outcomes: a moderated mediation analysis of high-performance work systems

Sumi Jha

doi:10.1057/s41599-021-00708-x

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to explain the possible outcomes of mindfulness. The research studied the relationship between mindfulness and employee voice behaviour, affective commitment, job satisfaction, and burnout. The research added one contextual variable, high-performance work system, as a moderator. The sample of the study was faculty members of higher education (management) schools. The sample size was 1092 faculty members. Moderated mediation analysis was used to analyse the data and understand the positive as well as the negative relationship of high-performance work system. Findings indicated the significant positive relationship of mindfulness with employee voice behaviour, affective commitment, and job satisfaction. The research found a negative relationship between mindfulness and burnout. The moderated mediation analysis revealed the significant interaction effect of high-performance work system and mindfulness on consequence variables. To conclude the author found that the mindfulness practice is important for faculty members of higher education. Further the research concluded that mindfulness may enhance employee voice behaviour, which in turn increases satisfaction and commitment and reduces burnout. Such relationship is possible under high performance work system context.

Highlights

In the past few decades, the topic of mindfulness has become several researchers’ choice of exploration (Langer, 1989; Shapiro et al, 2006; Brown and Ryan, 2003; Wielgosz et al, 2018; Dahlgaard et al, 2019; Atkinson and Wade, 2019). Atkinson and Wade (2019) noted that mindfulness has been studied from various perspectives like; spiritual, religious, first person and third person
Emails of 1500 faculty members were identified after going through websites of each management schools and an email was sent to faculty members whose email id was listed on the website of the school
This study introduced a contextual variable, high performance work system (HPWS), to understand the mechanism involved in changing outcome variables because of the presence or absence of HPWS

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Introduction

In the past few decades, the topic of mindfulness has become several researchers’ choice of exploration (Langer, 1989; Shapiro et al, 2006; Brown and Ryan, 2003; Wielgosz et al, 2018; Dahlgaard et al, 2019; Atkinson and Wade, 2019). Atkinson and Wade (2019) noted that mindfulness has been studied from various perspectives like; spiritual, religious, first person and third person. Atkinson and Wade (2019) noted that mindfulness has been studied from various perspectives like; spiritual, religious, first person and third person. In the past few decades, the topic of mindfulness has become several researchers’ choice of exploration (Langer, 1989; Shapiro et al, 2006; Brown and Ryan, 2003; Wielgosz et al, 2018; Dahlgaard et al, 2019; Atkinson and Wade, 2019). It has been studied under various disciplines like; psychology, health science and neuroscience (Brown and Ryan, 2003; Dahlgaard et al, 2019). There is limited research in mindfulness in the field of management studies, especially considering the business management faculty in higher education (Bennett et al, 2018). Schwind et al (2017) and Berila (2015) advocated the need to study mindfulness among teachers because of the immediate impact it has on their students and on the society

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