- Muthmainnah Personality,
- Work Engagement,
- Moslem Employees
Abstract
Engaged employees will deliver positive behaviors at work. However, level of work engagement among Indonesian employees still paints unfavorable result. The present study investigated Moslem employees’ work engagement and its corelation to Muthmainnah personality. Work engagement is positive, fulfilling, work-related state of mind that is characterized by vigor, dedication, and absorption. Muthmainnah personality is a type of personality that is calm, grow commendable nature, and leave bad nature. By using accidental sampling, participants were 147 male and female employees who were varied in age, job position, employment status, tenure, educational background, and work location. Data was gathered by using two measures: Utrecht Work Engagement Scale and Islamic personality scale. Data was analyzed by using Pearson correlation with the help of JASP. Muthmainnah personality is found to relate positively with work engagement (r = .416; p < .001). Muthmainnah personality as one of Islamic personality types can be considered in exploring antecedent of work engagement. This study strengthens the important role of Islamic psychology in developing industrial and organizational psychology.
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