Exploring the Nature and Antecedents of Employee Energetic Well-Being at Work and Job Performance Profiles

Tina Peeters, Karina Van De Voorde and Jaap Paauwe
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Tina Peeters: Human Resource Studies, School of Social and Behavioral Science, Tilburg University, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands
Karina Van De Voorde: Human Resource Studies, School of Social and Behavioral Science, Tilburg University, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands
Jaap Paauwe: Human Resource Studies, School of Social and Behavioral Science, Tilburg University, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 13, 1-19

Abstract: While it is generally assumed that employees who feel well are also productive, research has shown that this is not always the case. Specifically, some employees seem to experience low well-being while performing, and vice versa. As employee well-being and performance are both required to achieve corporate sustainability, the purpose of this research was to identify energy-related well-being/job performance profiles among 5729 employees from the Dutch division of a large bank and identify their antecedents. Using latent profile analysis, we found five profiles: 1. low well-being/low performance, 2. low well-being/medium performance, 3. high well-being/medium performance, 4. high well-being/high performance, and 5. high well-being/top performance. Using multinomial regression, we found that more learning and development opportunities, more social support from colleagues, more autonomy, and less role-conflict were related to the high well-being profiles. Second, more role clarity, more performance feedback, more autonomy, and less work-pressure were related to the high- and top-performance profiles. Finally, communication and social support from the manager were found to be relatively weak antecedents of the different profiles. This study thus highlights that the job demands and resources of employees may affect their well-being and performance.

Keywords: well-being profiles; job demands; job resources; person-centered approach; sustainable work (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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