Work engagement and financial returns: A diary study on the role of job and personal resources

Despoina Xanthopoulou; Arnold B. Bakker; Evangelia Demerouti; Wilmar B. Schaufeli

doi:10.1348/096317908X285633

Work engagement and financial returns: A diary study on the role of job and personal resources

Despoina Xanthopoulou, Arnold B. Bakker, Evangelia Demerouti, Wilmar B. Schaufeli

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This study investigates how daily fluctuations in job resources (autonomy, coaching, and team climate) are related to employees' levels of personal resources (self-efficacy, self-esteem, and optimism), work engagement, and financial returns. Forty-two employees working in three branches of a fast-food company completed a questionnaire and a diary booklet over 5 consecutive workdays. Consistent with hypotheses, multi-level analyses revealed that day-level job resources had an effect on work engagement through day-level personal resources, after controlling for general levels of personal resources and engagement. Day-level coaching had a direct positive relationship with day-level work engagement, which, in-turn, predicted daily financial returns. Additionally, previous days' coaching had a positive, lagged effect on next days' work engagement (through next days' optimism), and on next days' financial returns.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	183-200
Number of pages	18
Journal	Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
Volume	82
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1348/096317908X285633
Publication status	Published - Mar 2009
Externally published	Yes

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Applied Psychology
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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