Leveraging a Dual‐Focused Growth Mindset to Boost Employee Resilience and Work Well‐Being: Evidence From a Two‐Wave Survey and an Intervention Study

ABSTRACT The post‐pandemic era, coupled with the rising adoption of AI chatbots and robotics, introduces significant new challenges for employee work well‐being. Thus, it is important to investigate underlying mechanisms about how employees can develop mindsets to promote well‐being at work. This study examines how a dual‐focused growth mindset—comprising a growth mindset about the self (the belief in the ability to develop personal abilities) and a growth mindset about work (the belief in the capacity to optimise work conditions)—can enhance employee work well‐being through resilience. In a two‐wave survey involving 606 full‐time employees in China (Study 1), we found that both mindsets were associated with lower levels of mental ill‐health symptoms (one dimension of work well‐being) by increasing personal resilience. Notably, the effect of a growth mindset about the self (but not about work) on personal resilience was stronger when individuals perceived a high (vs. low) level of work stress. In Study 2, a quasi‐experimental design with 85 participants in an intervention group and 66 in a control group demonstrated that a growth mindset intervention effectively enhanced dual growth mindsets, leading to improved well‐being, including job satisfaction and individual flourishing. A serial mediation analysis confirmed that resilience mediated the relationship between the self‐growth mindset (not work‐growth mindset) and employee flourishing. Theoretical and practical implications were discussed.