Agility and the three musketeers: The interplay of epistemic curiosity, joy, and rumination
Organizations and their stakeholders constantly face disruptions to stay competitive, relevant, and upgraded. Firms employ agile production, marketing, and technology practices to handle and benefit from such sudden changes. However, they seldom focus on understanding or enhancing Workforce agility...
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| description | Organizations and their stakeholders constantly face disruptions to stay competitive, relevant, and upgraded. Firms employ agile production, marketing, and technology practices to handle and benefit from such sudden changes. However, they seldom focus on understanding or enhancing Workforce agility at the individual level. This work adopts a bottom-up approach to explore the effects of psychological variables - Epistemic curiosity, Rumination, and Joy on Workforce agility. In Study 1, the cross-sectional survey (n1 = 482) validated the conceptual model. PLS-SEM was employed to analyze the roles of Epistemic curiosity (Interest-type and Deprivation-type curiosity), Rumination (Reflective Pondering and Brooding), and Joy in influencing Workforce agility. The analysis also revealed additional post-hoc relationships. An external sample (n2 = 194) was employed in Study 2 to verify the findings from Study 1. The findings revealed that Interest-type (I-type) curiosity and Joy positively predict Workforce agility. Additionally, D-type curiosity predicts both types of rumination and indirectly influences Workforce agility through Brooding. This paper explains why strength-based mechanisms must replace deficit-focused employee development initiatives by highlighting the differential roles played by I-type and D-type curiosities. In sum, it discusses the dark side of curiosity in the workplace, which is often overlooked in the literature. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-ad1ea397e4d841d298a105a32389c9b32025-08-20T03:31:15ZengElsevierActa Psychologica0001-69182025-08-0125810521510.1016/j.actpsy.2025.105215Agility and the three musketeers: The interplay of epistemic curiosity, joy, and ruminationM. Janani0V. Vijayalakshmi1T A Pai Management Institute Bengaluru, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India; Corresponding author at: T A Pai Management Institute, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Govindapura Village, Yelahanka, 560064 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, IndiaOrganizations and their stakeholders constantly face disruptions to stay competitive, relevant, and upgraded. Firms employ agile production, marketing, and technology practices to handle and benefit from such sudden changes. However, they seldom focus on understanding or enhancing Workforce agility at the individual level. This work adopts a bottom-up approach to explore the effects of psychological variables - Epistemic curiosity, Rumination, and Joy on Workforce agility. In Study 1, the cross-sectional survey (n1 = 482) validated the conceptual model. PLS-SEM was employed to analyze the roles of Epistemic curiosity (Interest-type and Deprivation-type curiosity), Rumination (Reflective Pondering and Brooding), and Joy in influencing Workforce agility. The analysis also revealed additional post-hoc relationships. An external sample (n2 = 194) was employed in Study 2 to verify the findings from Study 1. The findings revealed that Interest-type (I-type) curiosity and Joy positively predict Workforce agility. Additionally, D-type curiosity predicts both types of rumination and indirectly influences Workforce agility through Brooding. This paper explains why strength-based mechanisms must replace deficit-focused employee development initiatives by highlighting the differential roles played by I-type and D-type curiosities. In sum, it discusses the dark side of curiosity in the workplace, which is often overlooked in the literature.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691825005281Workforce agilityInterest-type curiosityDeprivation-type curiosityBroodingReflective ponderingJoy |
| spellingShingle | M. Janani V. Vijayalakshmi Agility and the three musketeers: The interplay of epistemic curiosity, joy, and rumination Acta Psychologica Workforce agility Interest-type curiosity Deprivation-type curiosity Brooding Reflective pondering Joy |
| title | Agility and the three musketeers: The interplay of epistemic curiosity, joy, and rumination |
| title_full | Agility and the three musketeers: The interplay of epistemic curiosity, joy, and rumination |
| title_fullStr | Agility and the three musketeers: The interplay of epistemic curiosity, joy, and rumination |
| title_full_unstemmed | Agility and the three musketeers: The interplay of epistemic curiosity, joy, and rumination |
| title_short | Agility and the three musketeers: The interplay of epistemic curiosity, joy, and rumination |
| title_sort | agility and the three musketeers the interplay of epistemic curiosity joy and rumination |
| topic | Workforce agility Interest-type curiosity Deprivation-type curiosity Brooding Reflective pondering Joy |
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