Book chapter
The antecedents and drivers of employee engagement
Employee Engagement in Theory and Practice
Routledge
2013
Abstract
Over two decades have passed since William Kahn formally defined employee engagement as ‘the harnessing of organization members’ selves to their work roles; in engagement, people employ and express themselves physically, cognitively, and emotionally during role performances’ (Kahn, 1990: 694). Since that time we have witnessed an explosion of scholarly and practitioner interest in engagement – particularly in the last ten years. Engagement has recently been the focus of several narrative reviews (Bakker and Demerouti, 2008; Bakker, Schaufeli, Leiter, and Taris, 2008; Britt, Dickinson, Greene-Shortridge, and McKibben, 2007; Macey and Schneider, 2008; Schaufeli and Salanova, 2007), two books in addition to this current volume (Bakker and Leiter, 2010; Macey, Schneider, Barbera, and Young, 2009), three meta-analyses (Christian, Garza, and Slaughter, 2011; Cole, Walter, Bedeian, and O’Boyle, 2012; Crawford, LePine, and Rich, 2010), and special issues of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (2008, March), Work and Stress (2008, July–September), and the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology (2011, January).
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The antecedents and drivers of employee engagement
- Creators
- Eean R Crawford - University of Iowa, Management and EntrepreneurshipBruce Louis RichBrooke BuckmanJenny Bergeron
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Employee Engagement in Theory and Practice
- Publisher
- Routledge; London
- ISBN
- 0415657423; 9780415657426; 9780203076965
- Number of pages
- 336 pages
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2013
- Academic Unit
- Management and Entrepreneurship
- Record Identifier
- 9984380376002771
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