Team work engagement and the impact on team adaptation

Work engagement can a determining factor for efficacy and performance levels of an employee. But as the structure of organizations changes and evolves, the demands become harder, more complex. It is necessary to think in a team context, for employees more and more are required to co-operate in order...

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Autor principal: Tavares, Daniel Filipe da Silva (author)
Formato: masterThesis
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2016
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Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/10071/11306
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.iscte-iul.pt:10071/11306
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Resumo:Work engagement can a determining factor for efficacy and performance levels of an employee. But as the structure of organizations changes and evolves, the demands become harder, more complex. It is necessary to think in a team context, for employees more and more are required to co-operate in order to achieve important strategic goals. That is why the concept of team work engagement is important, is take into consideration how the engagement of the team is a unique occurrence, with specific dynamics for interaction. More than simple combining the engagement levels of the individual team members, team work engagement is a result of many different aspects related to the interactions of the team members, with themselves, with their objectives as a team and with the organization. The goal of this study is to add empirical information to the concept of tem work engagement, in order to further show its importance in reaching high levels of performance and efficacy on a team level. For that purpose, team work engagement will be analyzed, as part of this study, for its impact on team adaptation. A second level of this analysis corresponds to testing if human resources practices act as a moderator to the effect on team work engagement has on team adaptation.