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Abstracto

The Impact of Flexible Working Hours and Psychological Empowerment on Team Performance with the DÄ?Ä?ŝÄ?Æ?nŐ Role of Work Engagement

Muhammad Waseem Shah*, Pirzada Khattak, and Muhammad Hammad Shah

Companies that ŽīÄ?r Å?Ä?xͲÆ?mÄ? and empower its employees psychologically help to keep the employees engaged in their work Ä?Ä«Ä?cÆ?vÄ?ůy and ƵůÆ?mÄ?Æ?Ä?ůy ameliorates team performance. In this paper, we ƐcrƵÆ?nŝÇ?Ä? how Å?Ä?xŝbůÄ? working hours and psychological empowerment boosts team performance while observing work engagement as mediator. In order to carry out our study, we used crŽƐƐͲƐÄ?cÆ?ŽnÄ?ů method of survey and the data was collected from employees of cŽnƐÆ?rƵcÆ?Žn project based ŽrŐÄ?nŝÇ?Ä?Æ?ŽnƐÍ? Results of the experiment from 221 employees reveal that by ŝnŝÆ?Ä?Æ?nŐ Å?Ä?xŝbŝůŝÆ?y in working hours enhances the work engagement of employees, which ƵůÆ?mÄ?Æ?Ä?ůy enhances team performance. Similarly, by empowering the employees psychologically increases the work engagement level which enhances team performance. There is evidence that work engagement enhances team performance and as the engagement level of employees enhances, so team performance also increases. Hence, our results indicate that work engagement of employees enhances by ŝnŝÆ?Ä?Æ?nŐ Å?Ä?xŝbŝůŝÆ?y in working hours and by empowering the employees psychologically in an ŽrŐÄ?nŝÇ?Ä?Æ?ŽnÍ? Due to high engagement level of employees in their work, team performance increases.