In: European journal of work and organizational psychology: the official journal of The European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology, Band 19, Heft 3, S. 304-332
In: European journal of work and organizational psychology: the official journal of The European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology, Band 13, Heft 3, S. 367-389
Even workers who are generally happy at work can suffer short-term losses of enthusiasm and fulfilment. Short-term fluctuations matter because they can better explain work-related well-being (e.g. work engagement, flow, positive affect or passion), employees' relations with other people at work (e.g. co-workers, clients), life outside work, and ultimately productivity. This article reviews what we know about short-term variations in employee well-being and highlights new theoretical assumptions and results from the seven articles in this special issue. The articles identify key psychological mechanisms involved in explaining within-person changes in well-being, including the ways in which people appraise events at work, the importance of humour, the sense of hope, and the balance between skills and challenges. Interventions that offer leadership training and cultivate signature strengths at work can also be effective in enhancing employee well-being. Boosting short-term well-being can make a big difference to employees and organizations.
This paper focuses on explaining how individuals set goals on multiple performance episodes, in the context of performance feedback comparing their performance on each episode with their respective goal. The proposed model was tested through a longitudinal study of 493 university students' actual goals and performance on business school exams. Results of a structural equation model supported the proposed conceptual model in which self-efficacy and emotional reactions to feedback mediate the relationship between feedback and subsequent goals. In addition, as expected, participants' standing on a dispositional measure of behavioral inhibition influenced the strength of their emotional reactions to negative feedback.
In: European journal of work and organizational psychology: the official journal of The European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology, Band 16, Heft 3, S. 326-341
In: European journal of work and organizational psychology: the official journal of The European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology, Band 29, Heft 3, S. 434-449
In: European journal of work and organizational psychology: the official journal of The European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology, Band 24, Heft 6, S. 848-852