Exploring Explanatory Mechanisms of Adjustment-Specific Resources Underlying the Relationship between Leader–Member Exchange and Work Engagement: A Lens of Conservation of Resources Theory

The sustainable competitiveness of an organization is largely dependent upon its effectiveness in developing and maintaining high levels socializees’ work engagement. Based on COR (conservation resources) theory, the present study proposes integrative model engagement pathway to organizational socialization. LMX (leader–member exchange) seen create fertile or infertile ground for creation limitation six adjustment-specific resources (e.g., task mastery), which turn affect SmartPLS 3.0 employed analyze data with 455 respondents from 15 luxury hotels China’s Hainan Island. As a result, collectively fully mediate LMX–engagement relation. positively influences all resources, then either directly conditionally While engagement’s relationship mastery moderated by income, fitting line vs. staff department. foregoing findings are exploratory insightful, particularly considering that socialization has become new paradigm important implications research, practice.