Research Agenda for Employee Engagement in a Changing World of Work

Edited by John P. Meyer, Professor, Department of Psychology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada and Benjamin Schneider, Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland, College Park US; Affiliated Research Scientist, Center for Effective Organizations, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, Los Angeles and Lead Consultant, Employee Engagement and Organizational Diagnostics, Sarasota, US

• Contents:INTRODUCTION1 The promise of engagement 3John P. Meyer and Benjamin SchneiderPART I EXPANDING TRADITIONAL PERSPECTIVESON ENGAGEMENT2 Multiple targets and referents of employee engagement 21Alan M. Saks3 Antecedents and consequences of workengagement: a multilevel nomological net 37Despoina Xanthopoulou and Arnold B. Bakker4 Work engagement: a key to HEROs – healthy andresilient organizations 53Marisa Salanova5 Personality determinants of employee engagement 67Leaetta M. Hough and Frederick L. Oswald6 Individual-level outcomes of employeeengagement: a conservation of resources framework 87Jonathon R. B. HalbeslebenPART II CONCEPTUALIZING ENGAGEMENT IN THECHANGING WORLD OF WORK7 Contracting, engagement, and the “gig” economy 103Peter Cappelli and Liat Eldor8 Engagement with perpetually deconstructed andreinvented work 119John W. Boudreau9 How does future work need to be designed foroptimal engagement? 137Marylène Gagné, Sharon K. Parker, and Mark A. Griffin10 Employee engagement and engagement inchange: a research agenda 155Simon L. AlbrechtPART III RESEARCH STRATEGIES FOR THE NEW AGENDA11 Qualitative methods in engagement research 175William H. Macey12 Investigating employee engagement at multiple levels 193Vicente González-Romá13 Empirical approaches to address the dynamicaspects of work engagement: study design anddata analyses 209Sabine Sonnentag, Monika Wiegelmann, and Maike Czink14 Profiles of engagement dimensions andtargets: applications and opportunities forperson-centered analytic techniques 225Matthew J. W. McLarnon, Alexandre J. S. Morin,and David Litalien15 Employee engagement in the new world of data 245Alexis A. Fink and William H. MaceyCONCLUSION16 Learnings and future directions 263Benjamin Schneider and John P. MeyerIndex

'Work engagement has many positive benefits for employees and organizations. In this insightful edited volume, Meyer and Schneider have assembled top scholars from across the globe to consider the nature of work engagement, its place in the changing world of work, and strategies for advancing engagement research. Highly recommended!'