Thriving at work: A meta‐analysis

By Anne‐Kathrin Kleine, C. Rudolph, H. Zacher. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2019

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Thriving at work refers to a positive psychological state characterized by a joint sense of vitalityand learning. Based on Spreitzer and colleagues’ (2005) model, we present a comprehensive meta-analysis of antecedents and outcomes of thriving at work (K = 73 independent samples, N = 21,739 employees). Results showed that thriving at work is associated with individual characteristics, such as psychological capital (rc = .47), proactive personality (rc = .58), positive affect (rc = .52), and work engagement (rc = .64). Positive associations were also found between thriving at work and relational characteristics, including supportive coworker behavior (rc = .42), supportive leadership behavior (rc= .44), and perceived organizational support (rc = .63). Moreover, thriving at work is related to important employee outcomes, including health-related outcomes like burnout (rc = -.53), attitudinal outcomes like commitment (rc = .65), and performance-related outcomes like task performance (rc = .35). The results of relative weights analyses suggest that thriving exhibits small, albeit incremental predictive validity above and beyond positive affect and work engagement, for task performance, job satisfaction, subjective health, and burnout. Overall, the findings of this meta-analysis support Spreitzer and colleagues’ (2005) model and underscore the importance of thriving in the work context.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology

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Proactive Personality and Creative Behavior: Examining the Role of Thriving at Work and High-Involvement HR Practices (2020, result): “This result is consistent with previous studies in creativity and innovation (e.g., Carmeli & Spreitzer, 2009; Kleine et al., 2019; Wallace et al., 2016), which consider thriving at work to be an important psychological state for employees who exhibit innovative behaviors.”
Impact of Perceived Organizational Support on Work Engagement: Mediating Mechanism of Thriving and Flourishing (2020, background): “Likewise, thriving has a positive association with health, job satisfaction, self-development, citizenship behavior; commitment toward organizations, task and creative performance, and organizational citizenship behavior also has a negative association with burnout and turnover intention [6].”