Zaangazowanie w prace – problemy z pomiarem (The measurement of work engagement – problems and issues)

Konrad Kulikowski () and Magdalena Madej ()
Additional contact information
Konrad Kulikowski: Instytut Psychologii, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski
Magdalena Madej: Instytut Psychologii Stosowanej, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski

Problemy Zarzadzania, 2014, vol. 12, issue 45, 99-112

Abstract: The aim of this study was to examine utility of The Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES) as a tool to measure work engagement. The original version of UWES contains 17 items grouped in three subscales: vigor, absorption and dedication. In the sample of educated Polish people (N = 146) three subscales were highly correlated, indicating that the structure of UWES is rather one than three dimensional. We also tested two shortened 9-items UWES versions. Best psychometric properties (goodness of fit) had 9-items scale developed on the basis of confirmatory factor analysis conducted on collected data. The validity of the UWES was investigated by studying its relationship with work arrangements (variable vs. fixed). As expected, employees with variable work arrangements were more engaged than those with fixed arrangements.

Keywords: work engagement measurement; UWES; work arrangements (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Y8 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://pz.wz.uw.edu.pl/sites/default/files/artykul ... kulikowski_madej.pdf (application/pdf)
http://pz.wz.uw.edu.pl/en (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sgm:pzwzuw:v:12:i:45:y:2014:p:99-112

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Problemy Zarzadzania from University of Warsaw, Faculty of Management Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().