Defining Employee Engagement for Productive Research and Practice

By Reeshad S. Dalal, Bradley J. Brummel, Serena Wee, L. L. Thomas. Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 2008

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WORK ENGAGEMENT: A QUANTITATIVE REVIEW AND TEST OF ITS RELATIONS WITH TASK AND CONTEXTUAL PERFORMANCE (2011, background): “Hence, a debate has emerged as to whether engagement is best thought of as a relatively stable trait, a temporally dynamic state, or both (Dalal et al., 2008).”
Integrative Literature Review: Four Emerging Perspectives of Employee Engagement: An Integrative Literature Review (2011, unknown): “Several scholars have suggested the conceptualization of engagement as “old wine in a new bottle” (Dalal et al., 2008; Newman & Harrison, 2008; Saks, 2008)”
Beyond Engagement:Toward a Framework and Operational Definition for Employee Work Passion (2009, methodology): “engagement contains both already established concepts of job commitment and organizational commitment and may be a larger multidimensional aggregate factor (Dalal et al., 2008; Macy & Schneider, 2008; Newman & Harrison, 2008).”
Job Satisfaction and Job Affect (2012, background): “Higher-level cognition, Damasio (1994) argues, relies on evaluative input in the form of emotion; cognition and emotion are interwoven in our psychological architecture.”
The Relative Importance of Employee Engagement, Other Job Attitudes, and Trait Affect as Predictors of Job Performance† (2012, background): “employee engagement and OCB (Dalal et al., 2008; for a similar argument in another context, see Bozeman & Perrewé, 2001).”