Influence of Career Growth in the Context of Promotion Speed, Professional Ability, Organizational Rewards for Knowledge Workers Job Engagement in an Organization

Abstract

Job engagement, as a kind of positive working being characterized by enthusiasm and selfless work, is being seriously challenged in the modern enterprise organizations. Based on the review of social exchange theory, this study constructed a research model which included: promotion speed, professional ability, organization rewards, organizational identification and job engagement from the perspective of improving the job engagement of the knowledge-workers in organization. The focus of the study is to find out the influence of the promotion speed, professional ability, organization rewards, on the dimensions of job engagement, and to figure out how organizational identification adjusted their relationships. In order to verify the hypothesis, this research adopted the method of questionnaire survey and regarded the knowledge-workers as the study subjects by delivering the online questionnaires and paper questionnaires to them. A total of 168 valid samples are obtained. The mentioned hypothesis is verified by analysing the data of samples using reliability analysis and regression analysis. The results showed that promotion speed, professional ability, organization rewards has a positive impact on job engagement and organizational identification has a significant effect between these two variables. Finally, this paper suggests that organizations should establish reasonable training, compensation and promotion system from the perspectives of career growth and organizational identification and build an innovative corporate culture etc. to increase the job engagement of the knowledge-workers.