Daily use of self-leadership strategies and employee work engagement while working from home and the office.

ABSTRACT: Employees' work engagement may vary by work location (office vs. home office), assuming that working at home requires greater self-regulation. Hence, self-leadership may play an important role when employees work at home. The present study investigates whether employees use self-leadership strategies (self-goal setting, self-reward, self-punishment, self-cueing, and visualization of successful performance) more often on home days than on office days. We also examine how these strategies are related to daily work engagement, and whether they are more effective for promoting work engagement depending on the work location. One hundred and one employees completed daily questionnaires on office and home days, resulting in 514 observations. Multilevel analyses revealed that employees reported hi

SUBMITTER: Patterer AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11375214 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature