Mediating Role of Thriving at Work for the Relationship of Organizational Trust, Empowering Leadership with Employee Job Engagement

Abstract

Thriving at work is an important personality trait but was not much investigated in the previous scientific studies. The present research aimed to investigate the mediating role of thriving at work between organizational trust and employee job engagement. The data was collected through a convenient sampling technique. A cross-sectional research design was used. Data were collected from 100 employees from different banks in Lahore. The reliable and valid measures/scales were used to assess organizational trust, thriving at work, and employee job engagement. Findings revealed that organizational trust has a significant positive relationship with thriving at work and employee job engagement. It was also found that thriving at work significantly mediates the relationship between organizational trust and employee job engagement, the results were discussed in the light of pertinent literature. It was recommended that in future studies data from telecom, corporate and textile sectors can be included.