Personal Resources and Work Engagement in the Face of Change

Contemporary Occupational Health Psychology: Global Perspectives on Research and Practice, Volume 1

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 124-150

  van den Heuvel, Machteld ^a   Demerouti, Evangelia ^a   Bakker, Arnold B ^b   Schaufeli, Wilmar B ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

"new world of work" digital work style characterized by flexible hours and no fixed locations; Current financial crisis and ongoing technological innovation pressure on employees, change ability and resilience; Employee attitudes to organizational change; Healthy organizational change; Ideal "new" employee self directed, proactive, networking entrepreneur, responsibility for his or her own performance and development; Innovative IT systems working life easier and supporting employee productivity; Optimism, generalized, positive outcome expectancies; Personal resources and work engagement in face of change; Positive Organizational Behavior (POB) approach to personal resources in workplace; Relevance of including role of person in studies on organizational change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886118773     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470661550.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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