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Exploring Calling Work Orientation: Construct Clarity And Organizational Implications, Kerry A. Newness
Exploring Calling Work Orientation: Construct Clarity And Organizational Implications, Kerry A. Newness
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Employees maintain a personal view toward their work, which can be referred to as their work orientation. Some employees view their work as their life’s purpose (i.e., calling work orientation) and they tend to be 1) prosocially motivated, 2) derive meaning from work, and 3) feel that their purpose is from beyond the self. The purpose of the current dissertation was to differentiate calling work orientation from other similar workplace constructs, to investigate the most common covariates of calling work orientation, and to empirically test two possible moderators of the relationship between calling work orientation and work-related outcomes of job …
An Examination Of Psychological Meaningfulness, Safety, And Availability As The Underlying Mechanisms Linking Job Features And Personal Characteristics To Work Engagement, Holly Jacobs
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The present study tested a nomological net of work engagement that was derived from its extant research. Two of the main work engagement models that have been presented and empirically tested in the literature, the JD-R model and Kahn’s model, were integrated to test the effects that job features and personal characteristics can have on work engagement through the psychological conditions of meaningfulness, safety, and availability. In this study, safety refers to psychological perceptions of safety and not workplace safety behaviors. The job features that were tested in this model included person-job fit, autonomy, co-worker relations, supervisor support, procedural justice, …