Supervisors’ Active-Empathetic Listening as an Important Antecedent of Work Engagement

Social support from supervisors is a job resource that has been found to be an important antecedent to work engagement. However, there is a knowledge gap in understanding one of the key features of social support-i.e., supervisors' active-empathetic listening-and its relation to employees' work engagement. To bridge this gap, this study explores how supervisors' active-empathetic listening is associated with employees' work engagement. Using a national representative sample (