Happy-Productive Teams and Work Units: A Systematic Review of the 'Happy-Productive Worker Thesis'.

ABSTRACT: 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

SUBMITTER: Garcia-Buades ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6981377 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature