Do workplace digitalisation and group diversity matter in linking innovative culture to employee engagement?

PurposeDrawing on the Job Demands-Resource (JD-R) model, this paper examines innovative culture as the antecedent to employee engagement (EE), taking workplace digitalisation as the mediator and group diversity as the moderator on the workplace digitalisation-EE relationship.Design/methodology/approachThe research model is tested using structural equation modelling, based on 256 online survey data representing the management-level executives of Selangor/Kuala Lumpur-based Malaysian companies.FindingsOur findings support that innovative culture directly affects EE and indirectly through workplace digitalisation. Besides, group diversity moderates the workplace digitalisation-EE relationship.Practical implicationsThe findings suggest that organisations can enhance EE in a diversity-oriented digital setting by cultivating an innovative culture to facilitate employees' perception and acceptance of workplace digitalisation.Originality/valueOur findings enrich the interdisciplinary literature on how innovative culture, employees' perception and acceptance of workplace digitalisation and group diversity intersect in reshaping EE.