Many contemporary organizations are placing a greater emphasis on their performance management systems as a means of generating higher levels of job performance. We suggest that producing performance increments may be best achieved by orienting the performance management system to promote employee engagement. To this end, we describe a new approach to the performance management process that inc...

Core self-evaluations (CSE) have predictive value for important work outcomes such as job satisfaction and job performance. However, little is known about the mechanisms that may explain these relationships. The purpose of the present study is to contribute to CSE theory by proposing and subsequently providing a first test of theoretically relevant mediating paths through which CSE may be relat...

With more organizations looking for employees who take initiative and respond creatively to the challenges of the job, engagement and psychological empowerment becomes important at both individual and organizational levels. Engaged employees are generally more satisfied with their work, committed and effective at work. According to the JDR model (Schaufeli and Bakker, 2004), engagement may be p...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between work engagement, academic optimism, and teacherschr('39') job performance. To achieve this goal, the descriptive-correlational research method was used. The statistical population of the study consisted of 4830 elementary teachers in Karaj in the 2017-18 school year. The sample consisted of 350 individuals who were selected a...

the purpose of this study is to examine the impact of psychological capital and job engagement on reduce job burnout of nurses . this study, as a matter of goal or purpose, is an applied research and the way of collecting the data is descriptive and in the form of correlation; and clearly based on the structural equation model (sem).in this research, firstly the theoretical model and the theori...

Does job control act as a stress-buffer when employees’ type and level of work selfdetermination is taken into account? It was anticipated that job control would only be stress-buffering for employees high in self-determined and low in non-self-determined work motivation. In contrast, job control would be stress-exacerbating for employees who were low in self-determined and high in non-self-det...