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The relationship between psychological ownership, work engagement and happiness
Dissertation (MCom)--University of Pretoria, 2015.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/50907 The relationship between psychological ownership, work engagement and happiness Olckers, Chantal katherine.george@za.pwc.com George, Katherine UCTD Dissertation (MCom)--University of Pretoria, 2015. As a new generation of employees floods the market, loyalty has been redefined. The days of employees staying in one organisation for their entire career are long gone. Loyalty is now shown by the amount of effort and dedication that is put into the job at that moment in time. With that said, organisations need to find ways to retain employees for as long as possible by ensuring that employees feel ownership towards their jobs, are engaged and happy. In order to achieve this, organisations should shift their focus towards positive organisational behaviour and positive psychology as a preventative approach to retaining employees. The outcome could result in happy, engaged employees who possess psychological ownership towards their jobs. The ideal outcome for organisations is for employees to remain with the organisation for as long as possible. The purpose of this study was twofold; first, it aimed to investigate if there was a positive relationship between psychological ownership, work engagement and happiness and secondly, whether psychological ownership can predict work engagement and consequently the happiness of employees in the organisation. A quantitative, non-experimental, cross-sectional survey design was used on a non-probability purposive sample (N = 365) consisting of professional, white-collar employees in the professional services industry in an audit firm in South Africa. The data for the study were collected by using a questionnaire containing a combination of measuring instruments such as the Satisfaction with Life Scale, Well-being Questionnaire for the measurement of happiness, the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale and the Psychological Ownership Questionnaire. Pearson product-moment correlations and structural equation modelling confirmed significant positive relationships between psychological ownership, work engagement and happiness. It showed that psychological ownership acted as a predictor of work engagement, which had an influence on happiness. tm2015 Human Resource Management MCom Unrestricted 2015-11-25T09:54:15Z 2015-11-25T09:54:15Z 2015/09/01 2015 Dissertation George, K 2015, The relationship between psychological ownership, work engagement and happiness, MCom Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/50907> S2015 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/50907 en © 2015 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD The relationship between psychological ownership, work engagement and happiness |
| title | The relationship between psychological ownership, work engagement and happiness |
| title_full | The relationship between psychological ownership, work engagement and happiness |
| title_fullStr | The relationship between psychological ownership, work engagement and happiness |
| title_full_unstemmed | The relationship between psychological ownership, work engagement and happiness |
| title_short | The relationship between psychological ownership, work engagement and happiness |
| title_sort | relationship between psychological ownership work engagement and happiness |
| topic | UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/50907 |