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What is Positive Psychology? |
Positive Psychology is the scientific study of optimal human functioning. It aims to discover and promote the factors that allow individuals and communities to thrive |
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What is Work Engagement? |
Work engagement is a positive, affective motional state of fulfilment that is characterized by vigor, dedication and absorption (Schaufelli & Baker, 2009) |
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What are engaged workers? |
- Active agents - Generate their own positive feedback - Engaged outside their work - Have values that match with the organization - Sometimes feel tired as well - Are not workaholics |
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How is job engagement caused? |
- Job Autonomy - Social Support and coaching - Performance feedback - Opportunities to learn and develop - Task variety - Responsibilities - Value fit - Organizational justice "Challenging Jobs produce engagement" |
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In the case of organizational attitudes: What is engagement related to?
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- Job Satisfaction - Job Involvement - Personal Initiative + Proactive Behavior - Organizational commitment - Low turnover intentions |
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What does engagement predict? |
- Academic Performance - Extra-role behavior - Quality of service (as perceived by customer) - Frequency of sickness - Financial turnover - Medical errors - Personal initative - Business unit performance |
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What does the study of Harter (2002) conclude about engaged works in businesses? |
Employee engagement is related to meaningful business outcomes at a magnitude that is important to many organizations and these correlations generalize across companies Engaged workers pay-off |
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Difference between Engagement vs Workaholism?
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Engagement: Little excess work, good social functioning, good mental health, job satisfaction, job resources, high job demands, organizational commitment Workaholism: Much excess work, Poor social functioning, distress, no job satisfaction, lack of job resources, Very high job demands, Organizational commitment |
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Definition of Amplition? (Intervention strategy) (Ouweneel, Schaufelli & Le Blanc (2010) |
Amplition is about enhancing, improving & increasing engagement. People who do not have a problem, but increasing the quality of work and life |
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Three types of interventions
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Individual-based Team-based Organizational-based |
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Three types of Individual Based intervention |
Behavioral Cognitive Motivational |
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Three types of Team based Interventions |
Participative approach Transformational Leadership Increase team efficacy |
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Three types of Organizational Based Intervention |
Job (re)design: increase job resources Leadership training: contagiousness Career development: keep jobs challenging |
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What did the study of Ouweneeuwl, Le Blanc & Schaufeli (2013) conclude when performing an individual-based intervention (Increasing positive emotions & engagement) among students? |
Inducing thoughts of gratitude and commiting acts of kindness increases positive emotions
However effects are only temporal! Temporarily increases study engagement, only for acts of kindness |
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What were the outcomes of the "Online e-coaching interventions to enhance employee self-efficacy and engagement"? (Ouweneel, Le Blanc & Schaufeli, 2013) |
Self-enhancement via online interventions seems to increase self-efficacy
Self-enhancement via online interventions seems to increase engagement, but only for though with low initial levels Self-selection mechanisms seem to operate in online interventions |
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What are 4 succes factors for positive interventions |
Person Activity Fit: Otherwise, sapping motivation Spend Effort: To initiate and continue Counteract Hedonic Adaptation: optimal timing and variaton Support of Others: Enhances perseverance |
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Organizations are changing from - to (4/7) |
Stability --> Continious change Cost reduction --> Customer satisfaction Vertical Hierarchy --> Horizontal networks |
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Organizations are changing from - to (7/7) |
External supervision / control --> Self control/empowerment dependence on organization --> Employability Fixed schedules and patterns --> Boundarylessness |
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Jobs are changing from - to (3/7) |
Physical demands --> Mental and emotional demands Less intensive work rhythm --> Work intensification seperations work and home --> Work-home permeability |
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Jobs are changing from - to (7/7) |
individual jobs --> Teamwork Detailed job descriptions --> Job crafting Life time employement --> precarious employement work experience --> Innovation, creativity and learning |
