In a recent commentary article Dr. Arnold Bakker at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam suggests that a multilevel approach to understanding employee well-being may help bring together different, and sometimes competing, theoretical approaches.
Dr. Bakker suggests that job performance may be directly influenced by gain and loss cycles and indirectly or directly influenced by job demands and resources, well-being and personality. The key features of the framework are gain and loss cycles which bring to mind the resilience and energy management movement that is popular in the human resource field right now. In Bakker’s framework gains include access to job resources, ability to job craft and engage in work on a daily basis. Losses include daily job demands, exhaustion and self-undermining. Over time engagement and exhaustion contribute to job performance and the daily balance of gains and losses contribute to general levels of well-being. In outlining this multilevel approach that incorporates well-being into a parsimonious framework Dr. Bakker suggests a fruitful path for research on individual and structural factors that affect general well-being, job performance, job satisfaction and burnout. For more information on Arnold Bakker’s research see….. Study highlight https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281604949_Towards_a_multilevel_... Researcher info https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Arnold_Bakker