Young Managers' Drive to Thrive: A Personal Work Goal Approach to Burnout and Work Engagement

Autor/inn/en	Hyvonen, Katriina; Feldt, Taru; Salmela-Aro, Katariina; Kinnunen, Ulla; Makikangas, Anne
Titel	Young Managers' Drive to Thrive: A Personal Work Goal Approach to Burnout and Work Engagement
Quelle	In: Journal of Vocational Behavior, 75 (2009) 2, S.183-196 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0001-8791
DOI	10.1016/j.jvb.2009.04.002
Schlagwörter	Qualitative Research; Burnout; Academic Achievement; Career Change; Data Analysis; Job Security; Well Being; Questionnaires; Organizational Objectives; Individual Differences; Males; Foreign Countries; Finland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Qualitative Forschung; Burn out (Psychology); Burnout-syndrom; Burnout-Syndrom; Schulleistung; Career changes; Berufswechsel; Auswertung; Arbeitsplatzsicherheit; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Fragebogen; Business goal; Unternehmensziel; Individueller Unterschied; Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Ausland; Finnland
Abstract	This study approaches young managers' occupational well-being through their work-related goal pursuit. The main aim was to identify content categories of personal work goals and investigate their associations with background factors, goal appraisals, burnout, and work engagement. The questionnaire data consisted of 747 young Finnish managers (23-35 years; M = 31 years) who were mostly men (85.5%). Seven work-related content categories were found on the basis of qualitative data analysis: (1) competence goals (30.5%), (2) progression goals (23.7%), (3) well-being goals (15.2%), (4) job change goals (13.7%), (5) job security goals (7.4%), (6) organizational goals (5.6%), and (7) financial goals (3.9%). ANCOVA analyses, where goal appraisals and significant background factors were controlled for, indicated that organizational goals were related to low burnout and the highest level of work engagement, whereas well-being and job change goals were related to higher burnout and lower work engagement. The study shows that the contents of young managers' work-related goals can contribute to the understanding of individual differences in occupational well-being. (Contains 5 tables.) (As Provided).
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