Journal of Security and Sustainability Issues

The prime objective of the current study was to examine the relationship between self-efficacy, work environment, career identity, work engagement and job embeddedness. Furthermore, the mediating association of work engagement is also examined in the proposed model. This study is conducted in the hotel industry of Indonesia. The data was gathered from the workers of different hotels. The response rate of the present study is 75.3%. PLS-SEM tool is used by the researcher for the analysis of the present study on the basis of data collected. The findings of the study point out that work engagement of the employees is significantly impacted by self-efficacy, career identity and work environment, which in turn have a significant link with job embeddedness. Moreover, mediating relationship work engagement is also proved significant statistically in the present paper. The findings of the study fill the gap of limited studies conducted to examine strategies for the creation of job embeddedness among employees. In the end, the results are important for the policymakers of the hotel industry by which they can develop strategies to create work engagement and job embeddedness among employees of the hotel sector.