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Happy-Productive Teams and Work Units: A Systematic Review of the ‘Happy-Productive Worker Thesis’

The happy-productive worker thesis (HPWT) assumes that happy employees perform better. Given the relevance of teams and work-units in organizations, our aim is to analyze the state of the art on happy-productive work-units (HPWU) through a systematic review and integrate existing research on differe...

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Autores principales: García-Buades, M. Esther, Peiró, José M., Montañez-Juan, María Isabel, Kozusznik, Malgorzata W., Ortiz-Bonnín, Silvia
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6981377/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31861812
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17010069
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author García-Buades, M. Esther
Peiró, José M.
Montañez-Juan, María Isabel
Kozusznik, Malgorzata W.
Ortiz-Bonnín, Silvia
author_facet García-Buades, M. Esther
Peiró, José M.
Montañez-Juan, María Isabel
Kozusznik, Malgorzata W.
Ortiz-Bonnín, Silvia
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description The happy-productive worker thesis (HPWT) assumes that happy employees perform better. Given the relevance of teams and work-units in organizations, our aim is to analyze the state of the art on happy-productive work-units (HPWU) through a systematic review and integrate existing research on different collective well-being constructs and collective performance. Research on HPWU (30 studies, 2001–2018) has developed through different constructs of well-being (hedonic: team satisfaction, group affect; and eudaimonic: team engagement) and diverse operationalizations of performance (self-rated team performance, leader-rated team performance, customers’ satisfaction, and objective indicators), thus creating a disintegrated body of knowledge about HPWU. The theoretical frameworks to explain the HPWU relationship are attitude–behavior models, broaden-and-build theory, and the job-demands-resources model. Research models include a variety of antecedents, mediators, and moderating third variables. Most studies are cross-sectional, all propose a causal happy–productive relationship (not the reverse), and generally find positive significant relationships. Scarce but interesting time-lagged evidence supports a causal chain in which collective well-being leads to team performance (organizational citizenship behavior or team creativity), which then leads to objective work-unit performance. To conclude, we identify common issues and challenges across the studies on HPWU, and set out an agenda for future research.
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spelling pubmed-69813772020-02-07 Happy-Productive Teams and Work Units: A Systematic Review of the ‘Happy-Productive Worker Thesis’ García-Buades, M. Esther Peiró, José M. Montañez-Juan, María Isabel Kozusznik, Malgorzata W. Ortiz-Bonnín, Silvia Int J Environ Res Public Health Review The happy-productive worker thesis (HPWT) assumes that happy employees perform better. Given the relevance of teams and work-units in organizations, our aim is to analyze the state of the art on happy-productive work-units (HPWU) through a systematic review and integrate existing research on different collective well-being constructs and collective performance. Research on HPWU (30 studies, 2001–2018) has developed through different constructs of well-being (hedonic: team satisfaction, group affect; and eudaimonic: team engagement) and diverse operationalizations of performance (self-rated team performance, leader-rated team performance, customers’ satisfaction, and objective indicators), thus creating a disintegrated body of knowledge about HPWU. The theoretical frameworks to explain the HPWU relationship are attitude–behavior models, broaden-and-build theory, and the job-demands-resources model. Research models include a variety of antecedents, mediators, and moderating third variables. Most studies are cross-sectional, all propose a causal happy–productive relationship (not the reverse), and generally find positive significant relationships. Scarce but interesting time-lagged evidence supports a causal chain in which collective well-being leads to team performance (organizational citizenship behavior or team creativity), which then leads to objective work-unit performance. To conclude, we identify common issues and challenges across the studies on HPWU, and set out an agenda for future research. MDPI 2019-12-20 2020-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6981377/ /pubmed/31861812 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17010069 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17010069
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