Engagement at Work

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Who said "employers need employees who are proactive and committed to high quality performance standards, i.e. employees that are engaged"?
Bakker & Leiter (2010)
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What percentage of employees around the globe are engaged with their job according to Gallup (2013)?
13%
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What are the two core ways leaders engage with followers according to Stogdill (1950)?
The consideration approach and the initiation-structure approach
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What were the correlation coefficients reported by Judge et al. (2004) for the influence of the consideration approach on engagement?
.36 compared to .26
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Who found that transformational leadership predicts followers work engagement?
Zhu et al. (2009)
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Who found that followers were more engaged on days when their leader showed more transformational leadership behaviours as followers were more optimistic as a consequence?
Tims et al. (2011)
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Who suggested that leaders define and shape their followers work environment so transformational leaders provide meaning for followers to perform?
Smircich & Morgan (1982)
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What is Child (1968)'s definition of individual differences?
More or less, stable internal factors that make a persons behaviour consistent from one time to another and different from behaviours others would manifest in the same situation
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Who showed that conscientiousness, emotional stability and extraversion were all strongly positively related to engagement at work?
Barrick & Mount (1991)
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What did Kim et al. (2009) find?
A negative relationship between neuroticism and engagement
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What characteristic did Gagni & Deci (2005) suggest makes an individual more likely to demonstrate engaging behaviours?
Autonomy-oriented
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What three things did Koyuncu et al. (2006) find correlated with work engagement?
Psychological well-being, job satisfaction and intent to remain
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Who said "a team exists when two or more people define themselves as members of it and when its existence is recognised by at least one other"?
Brown (2000)
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What did Unsworth & West (2000) suggest teams needed to lead to engagement?
Cohesiveness, composition, communication and leadership
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What did Cohen & Bailey (1997) suggest enhances communication, innovation and quality of decision-making in teams?
Collaboration
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Who suggested working in teams satisfies motivations for collective self-actualisation and meaningful work?
Ellemers et al. (2004)
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What did Anand et al. (2010) find?
Coworker relationships play an important role in predicting employee attitudes
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Who discussed the notion of production blocking hampering team performance?
Karall & Williams (1993)
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Who said "when individuals invest energy into their work roles they should have higher contextual performance, thus engagement is thought to be an indicator of an employees willingness to expend discretionary effort to help the employer"?
Trickson (2005)
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Who suggested "engagement as a motivational concept should relate to the persistence and intensity with which individuals pursue their task performance"?
Ashforth & Humphrey (1995)
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What did Macey & Schneider (2008) claim?
Engagement predicts individual and organisational outcomes
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What was the success rate for business units that were above the median on employee engagement (Harter et al., 2002)?
70%
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What were the mean corrected correlations for engagement on task and contextual performance (Christian et al., 2011)
.42 and .34
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Who argued "the condition of psychological meaningfulness, a key antecedent of employee engagement, has not only been linked with performance but also reduced absenteeism and attitude changes"?
May et al. (2004)
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What did Saks (2006) suggest?
Engaged employees are more committed, satisfied and productive
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Who said employees are more attached to their work roles and 'absorbed by enacting it' when they are engaged?
Fleck & Inceoglu (2010)
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What did Shuck et al. (2010) find?
Turnover intentions reduce when employees are more engaged
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Who found that employee engagement explained a moderate amount of variance in turnover intentions?
Soane et al. (2012)
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What did Rurkkham & Bartlett (2012) find?
Positive relationship between engagement and OCBs
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Who suggested the relationship between OCBs and engagement is because engaged employees tend to have a positive affect and are motivated to exhibit beneficial behaviours?
Soane et al. (2012)
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Who described performance appraisal as 'a managerial evaluation of an employees performance, often annually, which an evaluator assesses the extent to which certain desired behaviours have been observed or achieved?
DeNisi & Sonesh (2011)
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What ratio of employees believe their firms appraisal system improves their performance (Palakos, 2004)?
1 in 10
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Who said "designing the performance management process to foster employee engagement will lead to higher levels of performance"?
Mone & London (2010)
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What two things did Salvarajan & Croniger (2012) suggest an appraisal needed to lead to motivation to perform?
Richness in feedback and high perceived fairness
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What mediated the relationship between developmental goal setting and self-reported performance (Kuvaas, 2007)?
Intrinsic motivation
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Who emphasised that situational and personal antecedents should both be considered when explaining an individuals conduct at work?
Hattrup & Jackson (1996)
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