Positive gain spirals at work: From job resources to work engagement, personal initiative and work-unit innovativeness

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High-performance work system and employee creativity: The roles of perceived organisational support and devolved management (2017, background): “They tend to feel more engaged with their work (e.g. Hakanen et al., 2008; Rich et al., 2010; Salanova et al., 2005), which leads them to enthusiastically promote creative ideas (Chang et al., 2013).”
Leadership, job crafting, and employee health and performance (2018, background): “Second, employee-oriented leadership should be positively related to promotion-focused increasing job resources because employee-oriented leaders empower employees to proactively accumulate further job resources (Hakanen et al., 2008; Hobfoll, 1989).”
Flourishing students: A longitudinal study on positive emotions, personal resources, and study engagement (2011, background): “Finally, Hakanen, Perhoniemi, and Toppinen-Tanner ( 2008 ) studied a sample of Finnish dentists and found a gain cycle of job resources, engagement, personal initiative, and innovativeness.”
Procedural Justice and Employee Engagement: Roles of Organizational Identification and Moral Identity Centrality (2013, background): “More engaged employees are more likely to take personal initiative at work, and therefore enhance overall unit innovativeness (Hakanen et al. 2008).”