Title: Culture, employee well-being and engagement relationship: an empirical study

Authors: Sivapragasam Panneerselvam; Kavitha Balaraman

Addresses: Thiagarajar School of Management, Pamban Swamy Nagar, Thirupparankundram, Madurai – 625005, India ' Sattva Project, Madurai Region Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII), No. 11, Big Car Street, Maharaja Nagar, Thirupparankundram, Madurai – 625005, India

Abstract: The study purported to identify elements of positive culture and explore the effect of positive culture on engagement, well-being, and efficacy levels of knowledge professionals in Indian IT and ITES organisations. A sample of 626 knowledge professionals drawn from multiple IT companies identified through multi-stage sampling. This study show that the positive culture is positively related to employee well-being (path = 0.29, p < 0.01) and in turn, the intervening variable employee well-being is positively and significantly related (path = 0.58, p < 0.01) to the dependent variables such as work-related perceived efficacy and to engaged employee (path = 0.44, p < 0.01). Compared to the direct effect of positive culture on employee efficacy beliefs and engagement level, the study asserts that employee well-being plays a mediating role in the culture-engagement relationship.

Keywords: employee well-being; engaged employees; IT industry; knowledge professionals; India; perceived efficacy; positive culture.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBG.2025.144859

International Journal of Business and Globalisation, 2025 Vol.39 No.3/4, pp.282 - 295

Received: 04 Feb 2021
Accepted: 19 Sep 2021
Published online: 06 Mar 2025 *

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