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Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

2022

Work engagement

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Correlational Study: Relationship Between Religiosity/Spirituality, Work Engagement, And Job Satisfaction., Peninah Kavengi Kyengo Jan 2022

Correlational Study: Relationship Between Religiosity/Spirituality, Work Engagement, And Job Satisfaction., Peninah Kavengi Kyengo

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AbstractEmployees desire self-fulfillment through meaningful work and look for ways to express their religiosity and spirituality experiences enhances their work engagement and job satisfaction. The problem is that limited understanding of these relationships prevents leaders and managers from implementing policies and procedures that develop or sustain an organizational culture to support employees' religiosity and spirituality. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between religiosity and spirituality (predictor variables) and employees' work engagement and job satisfaction (criterion variables); the research questions addressed these relationships. The theories of religiosity and spirituality formed the framework. The sample included 110 U.S. working adults recruited …


The Relationship Between Work Engagement, Burnout, And Employee Turnover Intention, Lannita J. Randle Jan 2022

The Relationship Between Work Engagement, Burnout, And Employee Turnover Intention, Lannita J. Randle

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Employee turnover can cost an organization 30% to 250% of a worker’s annual compensation to replace and train an employee. Understanding employee intent to leave is vital for human resource managers in the field service industry to help reduce turnover. Grounded in Alderfer’s Existence, Relatedness, and Growth (ERG) theory, the purpose of this quantitative correlation study was to examine the relationship between work engagement, employee burnout, and employee turnover intention in the field service industry. The participants were 169 full-time service repair employees residing in the metropolitan Houston, Texas area who completed the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale, Maslach Burnout Inventory, …


Resources, Demands, Engagement, And Resilience As Factors Limiting Human Resource Professional Burnout, Pamela A. Maurer Jan 2022

Resources, Demands, Engagement, And Resilience As Factors Limiting Human Resource Professional Burnout, Pamela A. Maurer

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Imbalances where job demands exceed available resources have been determined to cause employee burnout in the workplace. The relationship between job demands and available resources on burnout among human resource (HR) professionals has not been fully researched. Further, the impact of increasing available resources to meet job demands on fostering work engagement and supporting employee resilience to reduce burnout has not been fully explored. The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine if job demands and available resources predict burnout among HR professionals. The framework was based on job demands-resources theory and conservation resources theory. The Job Demands-Resources Scale, …