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Investigating the Impact of Employee Development Activities on Employee Well-being

Herb, Kelsey Cristine
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1429216423

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2015, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Akron, Psychology-Industrial/Organizational.
The present study applied a multiple time point methodology to evaluate the relationship between participation in employee development activities and well-being outcomes. In doing so, a comprehensive model of well-being was evaluated. Ideas were integrated from the organizational support (Gillet, Fouquereau, Forest, Brunault, & Colombat, 2012; Kraimer, Seibert, Wayne, Liden, &Bravo, 2011) and Self-determination Theory (Ryan & Deci, 2000, 2002) literatures to propose a model of the pathways through which employee development impacts employee well-being. It was predicted that employee development would facilitate positive well-being through the satisfaction of the three fundamental psychological needs – autonomy, relatedness, and competence. Additionally, a potential boundary condition – self-concordance of participation in development – was explored. Results provided strong support for Page and Vella-Brodrick’s (2009) model of employee well-being, which differentiates between workplace well-being (WWB), subjective well-being (SWB), and psychological well-being (PWB). Participation in employee development (formal and informal) predicted all three of these well-being outcomes. Further, results indicated that participation in development impacts the well-being dimensions through satisfaction of different fundamental needs. For example, participation in formal development activities predicts positive WWB through satisfaction of the need for autonomy and the need for relatedness, whereas participation in formal development predicts positive PWB through competence need satisfaction. Exploration of the boundary condition did not support the expectation that the impact of development on well-being outcomes is dependent on the level of self-concordance of development (i.e., the extent to which the employee participates in development more because it is consistent with his/her personal values, beliefs, and desires than because it is externally controlled; Sheldon & Elliot, 1999). Finally, results suggest that formal and informal development demonstrate similar relationships with the dimensions. However, the magnitudes of relationships are larger for informal development than formal development. Combined, results suggest that both formal and informal employee development, when aligned to employees’ personal values and beliefs, can facilitate employee psychological need satisfaction and, ultimately, well-being.
Paul Levy, Dr. (Advisor)
Steven Ash, Dr. (Committee Member)
James Diefendorff, Dr. (Committee Member)
Joelle Elicker, Dr. (Committee Member)
Andrea Snell, Dr. (Committee Member)
246 p.
Organizational Behavior; Psychology
employee development, performance management, employee well-being, subjective well-being, psychological well-being

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  • Herb, K. C. (2015). Investigating the Impact of Employee Development Activities on Employee Well-being [Doctoral dissertation, University of Akron]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1429216423

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Herb, Kelsey. Investigating the Impact of Employee Development Activities on Employee Well-being. 2015. University of Akron, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1429216423.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Herb, Kelsey. "Investigating the Impact of Employee Development Activities on Employee Well-being." Doctoral dissertation, University of Akron, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1429216423

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