Browsing by Subject "Työinto"
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(2022)Goals. The aim of this study was to examine the occupational well-being of Finnish primary school teachers in the beginning of COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2020 by viewing their work engagement and basic psychological needs. This study also examines teachers’ self-assessed digital skills and gender connection to work engagement. Earlier studies indicate that there is a positive connection between teachers’ work engagement (vigor, dedication and absorption) and basic psychological needs (autonomy, competence and relatedness). Methods. Data is a part of the national Bridging the Gaps -research and teachers have answered to it anonymously in spring 2020. The data included 717 primary school teachers of which 613 were women (85%) and 101 men (14%). Age of the participants varied between 23 and 65. The data was analyzed using correlation and hierarchical regression analysis. Results and conclusions. The results showed that autonomy and competence were positively associated with vigor, dedication and absorption. Relatedness was not associated with vigor, dedication and absorption. High digital skills were associated with vigor. Women experienced higher level of work engagement than men. In the future, would be important to promote teachers feeling of relatedness since fulfilling basic psychological needs should support their work engagement.
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(2019)Tiivistelmä - Referat – Abstract Aims. This study investigated to what extent work related resources (servant leadership and role in the organization) and personal resources (leisure time activities) as well as work related demands (interpersonal conflicts) are associated with employees’ work engagement and life satisfaction. The job demands and resources (JD-R) model by Bakker & Demerouti (2007) was used as the theoretical framework of the study. Previously it has been found that servant leadership is positively associated with work engagement and life satisfaction. However, there are only few studies examining role in the organization, leisure activities and interpersonal conflict as resources and demands of engagement and life satisfaction, and the results of these few studies have been mixed. Following the JD-R -model, it was hypothesized that resources were positively associated and demands negatively associated with work engagement and life satisfaction. Methods. This study is a part of an occupational health study, in which employees (N = 1415) from three big Finnish organizations participated in 2011. The participants filled in an online questionnaire concerning servant leadership, role in the organization, leisure activities and interpersonal conflict at work as well as questions about work engagement and life satisfaction. The data was analyzed using hierarchical regression analysis. Results and conclusions. The results showed that both servant leadership and role in the organization were positively associated with both work engagement and life satisfaction. Personal resource, leisure time activities, was also positively associated with work engagement and life satisfaction, which was a new result. Interpersonal conflict was negatively associated with work engagement and life satisfaction. As a conclusion, leadership style and role in the organization are associated with both work engagement and general life satisfaction. Also, leisure time activities are associated with well-being both at the workplace and during leisure time. Workplaces could support their employees for example by promoting sports during worktime. However, there is also a connection between interpersonal conflict and work engagement and life satisfaction, so employers could create some interventions (e.g., small group discussions) for social conflicts already before the problems occur.
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