Advancement Opportunities and Job Engagement: Moderating Effects of Worker Replationship

Many scholars have studied the antecedents of job engagement from different points of view. From the perspective of Strategic human resource management (SHRM), the factors that significantly affect employee's' job engagement can be compensation system, employees' motivation, training and learning, job security, job attractiveness and advancement opportunities. In this paper, we investigate the effects of advancement opportunities on employees' job engagement using the employee survey data from We also explored the possibility that coworker relationships, defined by the relationship with colleagues and management, respectively could play a role in strengthening the effect of promotion opportunities on employee job engagement. The results show that employees' perception of promotion opportunities is positively related to job engagement and co-worker relationships and management support play moderating roles in strengthening the supposed relationship.