Daily use of self-leadership strategies and employee work engagement while working from home and the office.

Autor: Patterer AS; Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. ada.sil.patterer@univie.ac.at., Keller AC; Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands., Woharcik K; Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria., Kühnel J; Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.; Psychology and Sports Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Scientific reports [Sci Rep] 2024 Sep 04; Vol. 14 (1), pp. 20558. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Sep 04.
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-71432-0
Abstrakt: Employees' work engagement may vary by work location (office vs. home office), assuming that working at home requires greater self-regulation. Hence, self-leadership may play an important role when employees work at home. The present study investigates whether employees use self-leadership strategies (self-goal setting, self-reward, self-punishment, self-cueing, and visualization of successful performance) more often on home days than on office days. We also examine how these strategies are related to daily work engagement, and whether they are more effective for promoting work engagement depending on the work location. One hundred and one employees completed daily questionnaires on office and home days, resulting in 514 observations. Multilevel analyses revealed that employees reported higher use of self-goal setting, self-reward, and visualization on home days than on office days. Furthermore, we found that applying these strategies was positively related to day-specific work engagement. Nevertheless, self-cueing had no effect and self-punishment was detrimental to work engagement. Moreover, we found no support for the idea that the effectiveness of self-leadership strategies for promoting work engagement depends on the work location. These findings contribute to our understanding of self-leadership strategies promoting work engagement on home and office days.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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