Abstract By integrating conservation of resource theory (COR theory) and selective optimization with compensation model (SOC model), this study explores and constructs a theoretical model of employee mindfulness on workplace well-being with emotional exhaustion as a mediating variable and objectives balance as a moderating variable. It reveals the effect mechanism of how mindfulness helps employees promote workplace well-being through resource utilization and integration. Research results show that on the one hand, mindfulness increases workplace well-being through resource selection to achieve resource gain effect; on the other hand, mindfulness reduces emotional exhaustion through resource compensation to enhance workplace well-being, thus reducing resource depletion effect. The objectives balance not only moderates the direct effect of emotional exhaustion on workplace well-being through resource optimization, but also moderates the mediating effect of emotional exhaustion between mindfulness and workplace well-being, which finally forms the resource balance effect. In addition, the mediating effect of emotional exhaustion will be weakened in the context of higher objectives balance.
WEI Wu,LI Jinrong,LIU Xia. The Effect of Mindfulness on Workplace Well-Being from the Perspective of the Integration of COR Theory and SOC Model[J]. Chinese Journal of Management, 2023, 20(6): 836-.
