Attachment and Work Engagement in Virtual Teams: Promoting Collaborative Job Crafting

Researchers are increasingly interested in how employee relational processes affect virtual team outcomes. Applying attachment theory and the Job Demands–Resources model, we examined relationship between orientations work engagement, mediating role of collaborative job crafting. In a three-wave longitudinal panel study 1,178 employees 225 teams, autoregressive multilevel structural equation modeling showed direct negative effects (anxious avoidant) on engagement. Indirectly, however, positively influenced partially mediated by Implications for inclusive practices that support crafting engagement discussed.