Take a break! Benefits of sleep and short breaks for daily work engagement

The current study investigates the benefits of a good night’s sleep and short work breaks for employees’ daily work engagement. It is hypothesized that sleep and self-initiated short breaks help restore energetic and self-regulatory resources which, in turn, enable employees to experience high work...

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Main Authors: KUHNEL, Jana, ZACHER, Hannes, DE BLOOM, Jessica, Ronald BLEDOW
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spelling sg-smu-ink.lkcsb_research-61332020-01-12T12:45:26Z Take a break! Benefits of sleep and short breaks for daily work engagement KUHNEL, Jana ZACHER, Hannes DE BLOOM, Jessica Ronald BLEDOW, The current study investigates the benefits of a good night’s sleep and short work breaks for employees’ daily work engagement. It is hypothesized that sleep and self-initiated short breaks help restore energetic and self-regulatory resources which, in turn, enable employees to experience high work engagement. A daily diary study was conducted with 107 employees who provided data twice a day (before lunch and at the end of the working day) over 5 workdays (453 days in total). Multilevel regression analyses showed that sleep quality and short breaks were beneficial for employees’ daily work engagement. After nights employees slept better, they indicated higher work engagement during the day. Moreover, taking self-initiated short breaks from work in the afternoon boosted daily work engagement, whereas taking short breaks in the morning failed to predict daily work engagement. Taking short breaks did not compensate for impaired sleep with regard to daily work engagement. Overall, these findings suggest that recovery before and during work can foster employees’ daily work engagement. 2017-01-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/5134 info:doi/10.1080/1359432X.2016.1269750 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/6133/viewcontent/TakeABreak_EJWOP_afv.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University energy management recovery sleep Work breaks work engagement Human Resources Management Organizational Behavior and Theory
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topic energy management
recovery
sleep
Work breaks
work engagement
Human Resources Management
Organizational Behavior and Theory
spellingShingle energy management
recovery
sleep
Work breaks
work engagement
Human Resources Management
Organizational Behavior and Theory
KUHNEL, Jana
ZACHER, Hannes
DE BLOOM, Jessica
Ronald BLEDOW,
Take a break! Benefits of sleep and short breaks for daily work engagement
description The current study investigates the benefits of a good night’s sleep and short work breaks for employees’ daily work engagement. It is hypothesized that sleep and self-initiated short breaks help restore energetic and self-regulatory resources which, in turn, enable employees to experience high work engagement. A daily diary study was conducted with 107 employees who provided data twice a day (before lunch and at the end of the working day) over 5 workdays (453 days in total). Multilevel regression analyses showed that sleep quality and short breaks were beneficial for employees’ daily work engagement. After nights employees slept better, they indicated higher work engagement during the day. Moreover, taking self-initiated short breaks from work in the afternoon boosted daily work engagement, whereas taking short breaks in the morning failed to predict daily work engagement. Taking short breaks did not compensate for impaired sleep with regard to daily work engagement. Overall, these findings suggest that recovery before and during work can foster employees’ daily work engagement.
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author KUHNEL, Jana
ZACHER, Hannes
DE BLOOM, Jessica
Ronald BLEDOW,
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title Take a break! Benefits of sleep and short breaks for daily work engagement
title_short Take a break! Benefits of sleep and short breaks for daily work engagement
title_full Take a break! Benefits of sleep and short breaks for daily work engagement
title_fullStr Take a break! Benefits of sleep and short breaks for daily work engagement
title_full_unstemmed Take a break! Benefits of sleep and short breaks for daily work engagement
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publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2017
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/5134
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/6133/viewcontent/TakeABreak_EJWOP_afv.pdf
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