ORTIZ GÓMEZ, MARÍA DEL MAR, ARIZA MONTES, JOSÉ ANTONIO, MOLINA SÁNCHEZ, HORACIO
No
Front Psychol
Article
Científica
2.988
0.947
31/01/2020
000515928100001
2-s2.0-85079495878
Nowadays religious organizations play a leading role in the third sector, contributing to maintaining the welfare state in a large number of countries in sectors such as health, education or social services, among others. These organizations provide a service to their users, aiming to transmit the predominant values in their mission statement and simultaneously promote both authenticity and work engagement in their employees. Indeed, the purpose of this article is to evaluate the link between human values and work engagement, as well as the mediating role of authenticity in this relationship. To this end, 938 workers of a Catholic religious organization, which constitutes a relatively unexplored context, is employed. To test the research model and hypotheses, this investigation uses PLS (Partial Least Squares). It covers two notable research gaps. First, the results confirm the direct links between human values, authenticity and work engagement within the context of religious organizations. Second, they provide evidence of the mediating role exercised by authenticity in the relationship between human values and work engagement.
human values; authenticity; work engagement; religious organizations; corporate governance; mediating effect; partial least squares