4PROSOCIAL PRACTICES, POSITIVE IDENTITY, AND FLOURISHING AT WORK

Jane E. Dutton, Laura Morgan Roberts, and Jeff Bednar

When you think of yourself at work, how do you think you are faring? Are you flourishing at work, feeling a sense of engagement, motivation, growth, and learning, or is languishing a better descriptor for your state of well-being? This chapter explores one important way in which organizations shape our ability to flourish at work. As employees, we spend more time engaged with our work organizations than we do with our families, friends, or other institutions (Hochschild, 1997). New technologies are quickly blurring the boundaries between work and nonwork, amplifying work immersion for the average employee. In such a world, ...

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