Enhancing Work Engagement of Organisational Behaviour Students: Can Yoga Help?

Modern businesses rely on productivity of workers to gain competitive advantage. They focus on the management of human capital and seek to enhance work engagement of these workers. Institutions imparting training in organizational behaviour are mindful of the demands of the industry and seek to promote work engagement during their courses. In this research, the effectiveness of yoga and the mediating role of mindfulness was assessed using a Randomised Controlled Trial on students of Organizational Behaviour. It was found that yoga increased mindfulness of participants as also their work engagement significantly. Statistical analysis revealed that the increase in work engagement through mindfulness as also the direct increase in work engagement through yoga were significant. Three fourths of increase in work engagement came through mindfulness while the remaining one fourth came directly from yoga.