Engaged work teams in healthy companies: drivers, processes, and outcomes of team work engagement

This PhD thesis analyses work engagement in the context of work teams taking a collective, psychosocial perspective. Throughout this thesis, the following topics will be addressed: 1) the state-of-the-art in the topic of team work engagement, 2) the measurement of team work engagement, 3) the associ...

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Author: Torrente Barberà, Pedro
Format: Doctoral thesis
Status:Published version
Publication date:2014
Country:España
Institution:CBUC, CESCA
Repository:TDR. Tesis Doctorales en Red
OAI Identifier:oai:www.tdx.cat:10803/396685
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10803/396685
http://dx.doi.org/10.6035/14022.2014.164019
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Team work engagement
Job demands
Job resources
Burnout
Occupational Health
Positive Psychology
Ciències de la Salut
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Summary:This PhD thesis analyses work engagement in the context of work teams taking a collective, psychosocial perspective. Throughout this thesis, the following topics will be addressed: 1) the state-of-the-art in the topic of team work engagement, 2) the measurement of team work engagement, 3) the association of team work engagement with other relevant individual-level constructs and how it fits in traditional research models in the field of Positive Occupational Health Psychology, 4) the antecedents and consequences of team work engagement at the team level of analysis, 5) the antecedents of team work engagement at the organizational level of analysis and the development of a multilevel model of work engagement that contributes to a broader understanding of the construct, and 6) discussion of the knowledge achieved throughout this PhD thesis.