OB@AOM From This is Depleting to This is Energizing – How Work Enhances Psychological Energy?

When:  Aug 9, 2022 from 10:00 to 11:30 (PT)
Associated with  Organizational Behavior (OB)
Departing from a vast body of research of work-related factors that deplete employees' energy through self-control processes the present symposium aims to advance our understanding of how work can enhance employees' energy. To do this we draw- and expand on self- determination theory (SDT) and particularly focus on basic needs satisfaction and associated autonomous self-regulation (as opposed to self-control) as psychological mechanisms that link work-and non-work- related factors and behaviors to employees' subjective vitality - a state of enhanced psychological energy. The four studies included in this symposium identify employees' work commute, the joint support of one’s supervisor and colleagues, consistent displays of high servant leadership, and daily mindfulness as determinants of employees’ satisfaction of their individual needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness as well as of balanced need satisfaction, which in turn promote autonomous regulation and associated subjective vitality. Accordingly, these studies comprehensively map to and extend our understanding of the motivational process outlined in self- determination theory. First, by identifying a set of work-related factors that facilitate employees' energy, second by focusing on novel mechanisms in the form of balanced needs satisfaction and flow experiences as a form of autonomous regulation, and third by identifying boundary conditions such as preference for need satisfaction, colleague support, consistency of servant leadership, and trait autonomy that influence the proposed motivational processes outlined by SDT. Last but not least the symposium outlines how employees can turn work from a depleting into an energizing experience.


A Self-Determination Perspective on the Impact of Commuting on Employees' Domain-Related Functioning
Dana Unger; UiT The Arctic U. of Norway
Wladislaw Rivkin; Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin


How Leaders and Colleagues’ Jointly Facilitate Employees’ Well-Being via Balanced Needs Satisfaction
Ioannis Kratsiotis; Manchester Metropolitan U.
Nicholas Theodorakopoulos; Aston Business School
Charlotte Hohnemann; U. of Wuppertal - Schumpeter School of Business and Economics


Flip Flop; Never a Good Look: How Consistency shapes the Energizing Effects of Servant Leadership
Wladislaw Rivkin; Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin
Nishat Babu; Loughborough U., School of Business and Economics
Kenneth De Roeck; SKEMA Business School
Sudeshna Bhattacharya; Aston Business School


The Moderating Role of Trait Autonomy in Linking Mindfulness to Vitality via Flow Experiences
Elvira Radaca; U. of Wuppertal - Schumpeter School of Business and Economics
Charlotte Hohnemann; U. of Wuppertal - Schumpeter School of Business and Economics
Stefan Diestel; U. of Wuppertal

Location

507 Sauk
Hyatt Regency Seattle
808 Howell St
Seattle, WA WA98101

Contact

Wladislaw Rivkin

rivkinw@tcd.ie