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100 years running: The need to understand why employee physical activity benefits organizations
Author(s) -
Calderwood Charles,
Gabriel Allison S.,
Rosen Christopher C.,
Simon Lauren S.,
Koopman Joel
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of organizational behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.938
H-Index - 177
eISSN - 1099-1379
pISSN - 0894-3796
DOI - 10.1002/job.2064
Subject(s) - pace , employee engagement , scholarship , construct (python library) , incubator , employee research , physical activity , work (physics) , public relations , employee resource groups , human resource management , psychology , business , marketing , management , political science , economics , engineering , computer science , economic growth , medicine , mechanical engineering , geodesy , geography , microbiology and biotechnology , physical medicine and rehabilitation , biology , programming language
Summary Employee physical activity initiatives are commonplace, but management scholarship has not kept pace with theoretical and empirical work to validate such initiatives. In this Incubator , we clarify the employee physical activity construct, present mechanisms linking physical activity to organizationally valued outcomes, and consider the dark side of employee physical activity initiatives. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.