Nineteenth International Conference on Knowledge, Culture, and Change in Organizations

Abstract

This study was conducted to determine the effect of Job Autonomy (JA) on Work Engagement (WE) and Job Satisfaction (JS) of employees within different private banks in Lahore-Pakistan. This cross-sectional study intended to find out the impact of job resources (autonomy) on positive job attitudes by looking into the moderating role of psychological-capital on these job attitudes. Six hypotheses were developed to see the impact of Job Autonomy on the overall positive job attitudes. A survey was conducted and primary source of data was used to collect the data from respondents by using snowballing technique. PLS Algorithm, Bootstrapping and Blindfolding was used to analyze the study hypotheses. Test analysis showed that job autonomy has significant relationship with work engagement and insignificant with job satisfaction through the moderating role of Psy-Cap.