Open AccessEmotional exhaustion: How does it relate to work engagement?
Author(s) -
Van Trang Tieu Pham
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
tạp chí khoa học và công nghệ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1859-1531
DOI - 10.31130/jst-ud2020-161e
Subject(s) - emotional exhaustion , work engagement , psychology , burnout , social psychology , emotional well being , work (physics) , emotion work , employee engagement , applied psychology , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , public relations , political science , engineering , mechanical engineering
People- to some extent- are largely or partly affected by emotions in life as well as in work. Emotion exhaustion definitely influences the quality of the job of the employees. Authors intend to examine the factors that can possibly affect emotional exhaustion and the relationship between emotional exhaustion and work engagement. The research was conducted with the assistance of Smart PLS software through quantitative method with data of from employees working in Hochiminh city. Results of the study showed that ethical leadership has negative relationship to emotional exhaustion while it is positive to that of challenge demand. In addition, there bears a negative relationship between emotional exhaustion and work engagement. In theory, previous researches were invigorated through the results of the study. In practice, ethical leadership should be appreciated, and challenge demand should be minimized to prevent the incurrence of emotion exhaustion- an effective navigator for low engagement at work.