Work engagement: An emerging concept in occupational health psychology

By Arnold B. Bakker, Wilmar B. Schaufeli, Michael Leiter, Toon W. Taris. BioScience Trends, 2008

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

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Explaining the relationships between job characteristics, burnout, and engagement: The role of basic psychological need satisfaction (2008, background): “Whereas burnout mainly refers to emotional exhaustion (mental fatigue) and cynicism (a distant attitude towards one's work; Maslach, Schaufeli, & Leiter, 2001 ), work engagement is mainly defined by vigour (ie, high levels of mental energy) and dedication (strong involvement and feelings of pride; ”
The engageable personality: Personality and trait EI as predictors of work engagement (2015, background): “Resiliency is a main driver of work engagement as resilient individuals are able to successfully control their environment, which gives them intrinsic motivation to pursue their goals (i.e. goal self-concordance; Bakker et al., 2008).”
Creativity and charisma among female leaders: the role of resources and work engagement (2013, background): “Research has confirmed that work engagement is a specific, distinct and properly operationalized psychological construct (Macey and Schneider 2008) that can be distinguished from other constructs including workaholism, organizational commitment and job involvement (Bakker et al. 2008).”
Organizational identification, work engagement, and job satisfaction (2015, background): “Hypothesis 2: Work engagement mediates the positive relationship between organizational identification and job satisfaction, such that organizational identification is positively related to work engagement which is, in turn, positively related to job satisfaction Work engagement is seen as a higher-”
Burnout and Work Engagement: The JD–R Approach (2014, positive): “Interestingly, it is research on burnout that has stimulated most contemporary research on work engagement (Bakker et al. 2008a).”
Burnout: 35 years of research and practice (2009, background): “The growing scientific interest for work engagement is exemplified by special issues of leading journals such as the Journal of Organizational Behavior (Bakker and Schaufeli, 2008) and Work & Stress (Bakker et al., 2008).”
Measuring procrastination at work and its associated workplace aspects (2016, neutral): “Work engagement is a positive, ful ﬁ lling state of mind that is characterized by vigor, dedication and absorption (Bakker, Schaufeli, Leiter, & Taris, 2008).”
Work engagement and workaholism: comparing the self-employed and salaried employees (2010, background): “In short, engaged individuals work hard (vigor), are involved (dedicated), and feel happily engrossed (absorbed) in their work (Bakker, Schaufeli, Leiter, & Taris, 2008 ).”