The antecedents and drivers of employee engagement Book Chapter

Crawford, ER, Rich, BL, Buckman, B et al. (2013). The antecedents and drivers of employee engagement . 57-81. 10.4324/9780203076965-12

cited authors

  • Crawford, ER; Rich, BL; Buckman, B; Bergeron, J

authors

abstract

  • Over two decades have passed since William Kahn formally defined employee engagement as ‘the harnessing of organization members’ selves to their work roles; in engagement, people employ and express themselves physically, cognitively, and emotionally during role performances’ (Kahn, 1990: 694). Since that time we have witnessed an explosion of scholarly and practitioner interest in engagement – particularly in the last ten years. Engagement has recently been the focus of several narrative reviews (Bakker and Demerouti, 2008; Bakker, Schaufeli, Leiter, and Taris, 2008; Britt, Dickinson, Greene-Shortridge, and McKibben, 2007; Macey and Schneider, 2008; Schaufeli and Salanova, 2007), two books in addition to this current volume (Bakker and Leiter, 2010; Macey, Schneider, Barbera, and Young, 2009), three meta-analyses (Christian, Garza, and Slaughter, 2011; Cole, Walter, Bedeian, and O’Boyle, 2012; Crawford, LePine, and Rich, 2010), and special issues of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (2008, March), Work and Stress (2008, July-September), and the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology (2011, January).

publication date

  • January 1, 2013

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

start page

  • 57

end page

  • 81