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Back to basics: Learning about employee energy and motivation from running on my treadmill
Author(s) -
Welbourne Theresa M.,
Andrews Steven B.,
Andrews Alice O.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
human resource management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.888
H-Index - 94
eISSN - 1099-050X
pISSN - 0090-4848
DOI - 10.1002/hrm.20040
Subject(s) - construct (python library) , job satisfaction , work (physics) , energy (signal processing) , test (biology) , employee research , business , turnover , marketing , service (business) , job performance , employee engagement , psychology , public relations , management , computer science , economics , engineering , political science , mechanical engineering , statistics , mathematics , paleontology , biology , programming language
In an effort to understand how to optimize employee energy at work, we borrow from the sports physiology literature to develop and test several concepts that have now been used in more than 75 large and small organizations (e.g., automobile firms, banks, hospitals, manufacturing, high technology, service businesses, financial services, and more). Our focus on employee energy led us to develop new measures and processes for our research. The resulting studies presented in this article test two hypotheses focusing on the link between employee energy, turnover, job performance, and job satisfaction. Consistent with what we know about athletic performance, we found that energy is an optimization construct and that variation in employee energy at work has detrimental consequences for performance and satisfaction. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.