Functional Engagement and Its Relationship to Self-Regulation: Analytical Study at the International Development Bank

Abstract

This research seeks to reveal the role of functional engagement as an independent variable with its three components (cognitive engagement, behavioral engagement, and emotional engagement) in self-regulation as a dependent variable, and realizing the importance of these topics investigated because of their effects on the individual, organization and society. To achieve this objective and for the importance of the expected results from the researched field, the questionnaire was used as a basic tool for data collection, which was distributed to the members of the research sample of the employees of the International Development Bank, which numbered (100) individuals, and covered (48) items for measurement. The research reached a set of results, the most important of which is that there is a significant effect relationship between the research variables (functional engagement and self-regulation), and the dimension of emotional engagement was the most influential in self-regulation, and these results were consistent with the hypothesis from which the research was launched.