What matters for work engagement? A diary study on resources and the benefits of selective optimization with compensation for state work engagement

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Venz ◽  
Alexander Pundt ◽  
Sabine Sonnentag
Keyword(s):  
Work Engagement ◽  
Diary Study ◽  
Selective Optimization With Compensation ◽  
What Matters

scholarly journals How and When Job Crafting Relates to Employee Creativity: The Important Roles of Work Engagement and Perceived Work Group Status Diversity

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 291
Author(s):  
Wenqing Tian ◽  
Huatian Wang ◽  
Sonja Rispens
Keyword(s):  
Work Engagement ◽  
Work Group ◽  
Work Environments ◽  
Job Crafting ◽  
Diary Study ◽  
Creative Performance ◽  
Group Status ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
Energy Company ◽  
Weekly Work

Creative employees are treasured assets for organizations. However, relatively little is known about what specific actions employees can take to manage their own creative process. Taking a motivational perspective, this study examined how job crafting behaviors positively link to employee creative performance through work engagement, and whether perceived work group status diversity moderates this relationship. We conducted a weekly diary study in which 55 employees from a Chinese energy company were asked to fill in diaries over four consecutive weeks (176 observations in total). Results of the multilevel analyses showed that weekly job crafting behaviors were positively related to weekly creative performance through increasing weekly work engagement. In contrast to our expectation, we found that weekly job crafting behaviors were more positively related to weekly creative performance when perceived work group status diversity was high. In summary, our study suggests that job crafting behaviors are effective actions employees can take to manage their creative processes through increasing work engagement. In addition, we stress that status diversity in existing work environments is an important contextual factor that shapes the job crafting process.

scholarly journals Relational job crafting: Exploring the role of employee motives with a weekly diary study

2018 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 859-886 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasin Rofcanin ◽  
Arnold B. Bakker ◽  
Aykut Berber ◽  
Ismail Gölgeci ◽  
Mireia Las Heras
Keyword(s):  
Impression Management ◽  
Work Engagement ◽  
Work Performance ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Job Crafting ◽  
Work Outcomes ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Diary Study ◽  
Research Stream ◽  
Matched Data

In this weekly diary study, we integrated research on job crafting to explore the associations between expansion and contraction oriented relational job crafting, work engagement and manager-rated employee behaviours (work performance and voice). Furthermore, we investigated cross-level moderations of prosocial and impression management motives on our proposed associations. We tested our hypotheses with matched data collected over seven weeks in Istanbul, Turkey. The results from multilevel analyses revealed that (a) expansion oriented relational job crafting is positively related with work performance and voice via work engagement, while (b) contraction oriented relational job crafting is negatively related with work performance and voice via work engagement, all measured at the week level. Furthermore, impression management motives of employees moderated the association between expansion oriented relational job crafting and work engagement in that this positive association is stronger for employees low on impression management motives. Our results contribute to job crafting research in two ways. First, it focuses on relational job crafting and discusses how and why the two opposite types of relational job crafting (expansion versus contraction oriented) impact on work engagement and employees’ key outcomes in the way they do. This addresses the question ‘ is there a dark side to job crafting?’ Second, it focuses on the importance of context and integrates two motives relevant to understand how relational job crafting unfolds, thereby taking a step to address questions for whom (i.e. what kinds of employees), relational job crafting is more effective and translates into enhanced (vs deteriorated) work outcomes. Moreover, our use of a weekly within-person design adds to a recently growing research stream emphasizing the dynamic nature of job crafting.

scholarly journals Working in the sky: A diary study on work engagement among flight attendants.

2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 345-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Despoina Xanthopoulou ◽  
Arnold B. Baker ◽  
Ellen Heuven ◽  
Evangelia Demerouti ◽  
Wilmar B. Schaufeli
Keyword(s):  
Work Engagement ◽  
Flight Attendants ◽  
Diary Study

Who takes the lead? A multi-source diary study on leadership, work engagement, and job performance

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 309-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberley Breevaart ◽  
Arnold B. Bakker ◽  
Evangelia Demerouti ◽  
Daantje Derks
Keyword(s):  
Job Performance ◽  
Work Engagement ◽  
Diary Study

"Did You Sleep Well? A Diary Study on Sleep, Work Engagement, and Family Satisfaction"

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 (1) ◽  
pp. 11558
Author(s):  
Zhenyu Yuan ◽  
Elizabeth Boyd ◽  
Kristen M. Shockley
Keyword(s):  
Work Engagement ◽  
Family Satisfaction ◽  
Diary Study

scholarly journals Work engagement and financial returns: A diary study on the role of job and personal resources

2009 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Despoina Xanthopoulou ◽  
Arnold B. Bakker ◽  
Evangelia Demerouti ◽  
Wilmar B. Schaufeli
Keyword(s):  
Work Engagement ◽  
Personal Resources ◽  
Diary Study ◽  
Financial Returns
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