The relationship between job engagement and workplace outcomes of employee: The moderated mediation effect of proactive personality, flourishing at work and voice behavior

In this study, it is aimed to examine the moderating effect of proactive personality on the relationship between job engagement-defensive voice and job engagement-psychological well-being. In addition, examining the direct effect and mediation effect of defensive voice and psychological well-being on the relationship between the employee's job engagement and workplace outcomes (task performance and organizational citizenship behavior) constitutes another important aim of the study. In order to achieve this aim, data were collected from 351 employees of 19 businesses operating in Trabzon, Mersin and its provinces, through three different surveys administered at one-month intervals from 23 supervisors. By using the multivariate analysis method, the variation arising from the differences in the evaluation of the enterprise and the supervisor has been included in the calculations. The results of the current research revealed that proactive personality has a moderating effect on the relationship between job engagement, defensive voice and psychological well-being. In addition, there was a positive relationship between defensive voice on task performance and organizational citizenship behavior, while psychological well-being was only positively associated with organizational citizenship behavior. According to another result, the research revealed that psychological well-being has a mediating effect on the relationship between job engagement and proactive personality interaction with task performance and organizational citizenship behavior; revealed that defensive voice does not have a mediating effect on the relationship between job engagement and proactive personality interaction with task performance and organizational citizenship behavior. According to these results, the most important contribution of the current research is to determine that the moderating effect of proactive personality is mediated by psychological well-being and its effect on workplace outcomes.