HARDINESS AS A MEDIATOR RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIAL SUPPORT AND WORK ENGAGEMENT OF EMPLOYEES DURING THE TRANSITION OF A PANDEMIC TO A COVID-19 ENDEMIC

Abstract

Termination of employment or layoffs during the covid-19 pandemic is a bad condition because it is dismissed and also creates new pressure for employees because they have to be in the company by accepting excessive work which causes a decrease in work engagement for workers. This study aims to determine whether hardiness has a role as a mediator between social support relationships and work engagement in employees during the transition from the pandemic to the Covid-19 endemic. This study uses a quantitative method through the mediation regression process and accidental sampling technique, as many as 717 employees who worked in Jakarta during the transition from the pandemic to the Covid-19 endemic response to a questionnaire from the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES) measuring instrument developed by Schaufeli & Bakker, Social Provisions Scale developed by Russell and Cutrona, and Hardiness Resilience Gange (HRG) developed by Kobasa. The analysis of the mediation regression process in this study used the PROCESS V3.5 Procedure for SPSS by Andrew F. Hayes. The results show that hardiness acts as a mediator of the relationship between social support and work engagement, this indicates that social support and work engagement will increase with the role of hardiness. This research is expected to provide a reference to workers and companies regarding the importance of understanding the values of hardiness, social support and work engagement so that they can understand the individual's ability to adapt to career changes during the pandemic in order to increase employee work engagement with the company.