Employees’ self-expansion as a mediator between perceived work conditions and work engagement and productive behaviors

Paweł Jurek; Tomasz Besta

doi:10.1007/s12144-019-00241-w

Employees’ self-expansion as a mediator between perceived work conditions and work engagement and productive behaviors

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There has been increasing scientific interest in the relationships between self-perception and group identity development processes as well as the behavioural implications of these processes in organizational contexts. Recently, the concept of workplace self-expansion has been introduced to work and organizational psychology. That is, the self-expanding characteristics of work and the workplace have been related to job satisfaction and organizational commitment. In the following studies, we examined the importance of workplace self-expansion and found that it is a significant mediator between job resources (e.g. compensation and benefits, job tasks) and work engagement (Study 1) as well as task-oriented engagement (Study 2). At the same time, our findings prove that job demands (e.g. role ambiguity, overload) do not weaken employees’ self-expansion if the impact of job resources is taken into account.

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Category:: Magazine publication
Type:: Magazine publication
Title of issue:: Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.)
Publication year:: 2019
DOI:: Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1007/s12144-019-00241-w
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