Work Engagement: Feeling Happy, Motivated, and Resilient at Work

Work engagement refers to an enduring, positive, affective-motivational state of employee well-being. Specifically, work engagement is a state of mind that is characterized by vigor, dedication, and absorption. In this review, after a brief introduction to other conceptualizations of engagement at work, we discuss the temporal and social aspects of work engagement and the main theoretical perspectives from which it is investigated. We also summarize the abundant information on the key antecedents and consequences of work engagement that over 20 years of research has produced and review work engagement in different contexts: in various groups, during organizational changes, and in remote work. After discussing different types of interventions that aim to boost work engagement, we end by presenting practical implications and future research options.