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What is Positive Psychology?
Positive Psychology is the scientific study of optimal human functioning. It aims to discover and promote the factors that allow individuals and communities to thrive
What is Work Engagement?
Work engagement is a positive, affective motional state of fulfilment that is characterized by vigor, dedication and absorption (Schaufelli & Baker, 2009)
What are engaged workers?
- Active agents
- Generate their own positive feedback
- Engaged outside their work
- Have values that match with the organization
- Sometimes feel tired as well
- Are not workaholics
How is job engagement caused?
- Job Autonomy
- Social Support and coaching
- Performance feedback
- Opportunities to learn and develop
- Task variety
- Responsibilities
- Value fit
- Organizational justice
"Challenging Jobs produce engagement"
- Job Satisfaction
- Job Involvement
- Personal Initiative + Proactive Behavior
- Organizational commitment
- Low turnover intentions
What does engagement predict?
- Academic Performance
- Extra-role behavior
- Quality of service (as perceived by customer)
- Frequency of sickness
- Financial turnover
- Medical errors
- Personal initative
- Business unit performance
What does the study of Harter (2002) conclude about engaged works in businesses?
Employee engagement is related to meaningful business outcomes at a magnitude that is important to many organizations and these correlations generalize across companies
Engaged workers pay-off
Engagement: Little excess work, good social functioning, good mental health, job satisfaction, job resources, high job demands, organizational commitment
Workaholism: Much excess work, Poor social functioning, distress, no job satisfaction, lack of job resources, Very high job demands, Organizational commitment
Definition of Amplition? (Intervention strategy)
(Ouweneel, Schaufelli & Le Blanc (2010)
Amplition is about enhancing, improving & increasing engagement. People who do not have a problem, but increasing the quality of work and life
Individual-based
Team-based
Organizational-based
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