@article {Xanthopoulou:March 2009:0963-1798:183, author = "Xanthopoulou, Despoina", author = "Bakker, Arnold B.", author = "Demerouti, Evangelia", author = "Schaufeli, Wilmar B.", title = "Work engagement and financial returns: A diary study on the role of job and personal resources", journal = "Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology", volume = "82", year = "March 2009", abstract = "This study investigates how daily fluctuations in job resources (autonomy, coaching, and team climate) are related to employees' levels of personal resources (self-efficacy, self-esteem, and optimism), work engagement, and financial returns. Forty-two employees working in three branches of a fast-food company completed a questionnaire and a diary booklet over 5 consecutive workdays. Consistent with hypotheses, multi-level analyses revealed that day-level job resources had an effect on work engagement through day-level personal resources, after controlling for general levels of personal resources and engagement. Day-level coaching had a direct positive relationship with day-level work engagement, which, in-turn, predicted daily financial returns. Additionally, previous days' coaching had a positive, lagged effect on next days' work engagement (through next days' optimism), and on next days' financial returns.", pages = "183-200(18)", url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpsoc/joop/2009/00000082/00000001/art00010" doi = "doi:10.1348/096317908X285633" }