ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the influence of autonomy and significance on engagement and aims to contribute to ideas about causality in the relationship between job characteristics and engagement. It presents an experiment which will provide more rigorous evidence regarding causality than correlational or panel studies. The chapter investigates the influence of autonomy and task significance on engagement within and between-subject laboratory experiment. The Bayes factor analysis of variance (ANOVA) provided strong evidence against the hypotheses that autonomy and task significance influenced engagement. The hypotheses concerning the influence of autonomy and significance was tested using Bayes factor ANOVA with default prior scales in JASP, which compared the null model. The respondents had greater or lesser autonomy when carrying out the task and the task was presented to them as significant or not significant. Autonomy is the degree to which ajob allows the worker real freedom, independence and discretion in planning work and choosing procedures.
