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Spreading engagement: On the role of similarity in the positive contagion of team work engagement

Year: 2013

Type: article

Abstract: Emotional contagion theory applied to work and organizations posits that positive emotions are shared among team members, thus enabling them to converge in desirable shared states such as team workengagement. The aim of this study is to analyze how similarity among team members in terms of gender and company tenure is related to convergence in work engagement at the team level. Similarity in terms of gender and company tenure was expected to be positively related to convergence in team work engagement. Hierarchical regression modeling in 161 teams showed that similarity in terms of gender was positively related to convergence in team work engagement, whereas, unexpectedly, similarity in company tenure was negatively related to convergence in team work engagement.

Source: Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology

DOI: 10.5093/tr2013a21

Authors: Pedro Torrente, Marisa Salanova, Susana Llorens

Institution: Universitat Jaume I

Language: Spanish

Topic: Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior

Subfield: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Decent work and economic growth

Open Access status: diamond

Funders: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Generalitat Valenciana