1.
Okechukwu Ethelbert Amah
– Lagos Business School, Pan Atlantic University, Lagos, Nigeria.
2.
Ebisindou Sese
– Lagos Business School, Pan Atlantic University, Lagos, Nigeria.
Abstract
Engaged employees are the main
drivers of organizational productivity
because of the extra-role activities
they perform. Relational energy
has been identified as an antecedent
of employee engagement, but the
variance in employee engagement
explained is low. The current study
included two organizational variables,
employee voice and perception
of organizational support as
possible variables to enhance the
effectiveness of relational energy in
predicting employee engagement.
Cross-sectional data involving 250
participants from Nigeria was used.
Results established direct effects of
relational energy, employee voice,
and perception of organizational
support, perception of organizational
support interacted with relational
energy to explain additional
5% variance in employee engagement,
indicated that more variance
was explained by the entire model.
