Product adoption · Quantitative cross-sectional study using partial-least-squares structural equation modeling.
Technology readiness, technology acceptance, and work engagement: A mediational analysis
SA Journal of Industrial Psychology · 2024
Summary
Technology readiness was positively related to work engagement; technology acceptance had a negative link and partly mediated the readiness-engagement relationship, suggesting a suppressor role for acceptance in this sample.
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Possible founder application
Measure both readiness and actual acceptance rather than assuming that making software easy or useful automatically improves engagement; treat technology as a possible demand as well as a resource.
Reported result
What the study found
Technology readiness was positively related to work engagement; technology acceptance had a negative link and partly mediated the readiness-engagement relationship, suggesting a suppressor role for acceptance in this sample.
Research question
What the authors investigated
How do employees' technology readiness and acceptance relate to work engagement, and does acceptance mediate readiness's relationship with engagement?
Design
Quantitative cross-sectional study using partial-least-squares structural equation modeling.
Sample and setting
143 working adults; the publisher abstract frames the setting as workplace technology use.
Scope and transfer
Limitations to keep in view
The cross-sectional sample of 143 working adults supports association and mediation-model evidence but not temporal or causal conclusions; generalization beyond the sampled workers is uncertain.
Research sources
Fetched journal article page establishes authors, 2024 publication, journal, DOI, CC-BY access, 143-person cross-sectional PLS-SEM design, and abstract findings. Firecrawl research job 01a1436c-f86b-77df-af1c-9a2f87e3535e returned this citation and metadata.