Due to globalisation and the dynamic
business environment, organisations quest to
improve their business performance by crafting
various compelling strategies. Recently,
employee engagement and well-being have
gained dramatic popularity among managers
and practitioners as a salient strategy to augment
firm performance. Paradoxically, research on the
association between employee engagement,
employee well-being and firm performance is still
nascent, and past findings are obscure. Moreover,
most of the studies have been conducted in a
developed country context; thus, the results
obtained from developed countries cannot be
general sable to the developing country context.
Thus, the overriding purpose of this study is to
investigate the moderating role of employee wellbeing
in the relationship between employee
engagement and firm performance. Using a
purposive sampling technique, data were
marshaled through a self-reported questionnaire
from 177 employees working in the apparel
industries in Sri Lanka. The data were analyzed
using Smart PLS. The study showed a significant
positive relationship between employee
engagement and firm performance. In addition,
“the results reveal a moderating effect of employee
well-being on the relationship between employee
engagement and firm performance”. The study
contributed to the frontiers of extant HRM
literature in many ways discussed at the end of
the paper. Notably, this study adds to the evolving
debate on the critical role of employee
engagement in enhancing firm performance
through employee well-being.
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