Unlocking Well-Being through Sustainability: Mediation Effects of Engagement among Indian IT Workers

organizational sustainability, employee engagement, subjective well-being and green HRM

The study examines how employee engagement mediates the relationship between perceived organizational sustainability and subjective well-being among IT professionals in India with reference to Chennai City. Based on a cross-sectional survey of 252 participants and applying structural equation modeling with validated scales and results show that there are significant positive direct relationships between sustainability and employee engagement as well as between sustainability and subjective well-being, together with the construction of a partial mediation by engagement of the sustainability-well-being pathway, which is supported by job demands-resources theory. The study points out the dual psychological benefits of sustainability practices within the high-pressure IT sector, and thus, it provides directions for green HRM strategies that seek to retain talent in urban areas facing attrition challenges. However, the limitations of the cross-sectional study necessitate the undertaking of longitudinal research across different sectors in the future.