Purpose: Nowadays, organizations face global and interconnected contexts that force them to change traditional structures and systems in order to survive. Therefore, novel individual, collective, and organizational skills are needed to achieve the new global demands. Latest empirical research has shown that individual mindfulness, collective mindfulness, and work engagement are crucial to organizations in order to be efficient and sustain internal well-being. Methods: Therefore, due to the already established significant and positive relationship between individual mindfulness and work engagement and the properties that collective and individual mindfulness share, the present study used the job demands-resources model to propose a mediation model where individual mindfulness was a personal resource, collective mindfulness was the job performance variable, and work engagement was the mediation variable. Results: The results showed that work engagement fully mediated the relationship between individual and collective mindfulness ( F (2, 169) = 28.528, p ≤ .001; R 2 = .252). It was also identified that, within the relationship between work engagement and collective mindfulness, dedication (b = .194; β = .477; p ≤ .001) presented the strongest relationship; followed by vigour (b = .196; β = .423; p ≤ .001) and absorption (b = -.168; β = -.370; p ≤ .001) respectively. Finally, vigour (β = .517, p < .001) was the strongest predictor of the collective mindfulness dimension’s commitment to resilience, while dedication ( β = .463, p < .001) was the only significant predictor of reluctance to simplify and absorption the only negative predictor of all the collective mindfulness dimensions. Implications: The findings of this study provide valuable insights for delving deeper into the interplay between individual mindfulness, work engagement, and collective mindfulness within work settings. As such, this research highlights the significance of examining how individual mindfulness and work engagement interact, in order to better understand this cognitive and behavioral phenomenon that enhances organizational performance and enables organizations to creatively grasp and effectively respond to the intricacies of their operating environments.
KeywordsIndividual MindfulnessCollective MindfulnessWork EngagementJob Demands-Resources Model
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