13648: Warm-Up or Distraction? The Impact of Micro-Role Transition Activities on Daily Work Efficiency (session 25809)

This research integrates boundary theory and resource conservation theory to explore the mechanisms and boundary conditions of micro-role transition activities and attempt to explore how employees can achieve higher work efficiency by engaging in micro-role transition activities. Using empirical sampling method to track the employees for 10 working days, 605 valid observations were obtained, the results indicate that when the habituality of micro-role transition activities was high, there was an inverted U-shaped relationship between employees’ morning micro-role transition activities time and job engagement. When the habituality of micro-role transition activities was low, there was an inverted U-shaped relationship between employees’ afternoon micro-role transition activities time and job engagement. The indirect effect of micro-role transition activities on work goal progress through work engagement is partially moderated by employees' chronotype. For employees with a morning chronotype, morning micro-role transition activities positively influence work goal progress through enhanced morning work engagement. For employees with any chronotype, afternoon micro-role transition activities positively affect work goal progress through enhanced afternoon work engagement.

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