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A Socially Embedded Model of Thriving at Work
Abstract
Thriving describes an individual’s experience of vitality and learning. The primary goal of this paper is to develop a model that illuminates the social embeddedness of employees’ thriving at work. First, we explain why thriving is a useful theoretical construct, define thriving, and compare it to related constructs, including resilience, flourishing, subjective well-being, flow, and self-actualization. Second, we describe how work contexts facilitate agentic work behaviors, which in turn produce resources in the doing of work and serve as the engine of thriving. Third, we describe how thriving serves as a gauge to facilitate self-adaptation at work. We conclude by highlighting key theoretical contributions of the model and suggesting directions for future research.
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“First, according to the SEMT, thriving at work results directly from engaging in agentic behaviors (Spreitzer et al., 2005), such as those characteristic of LC.”
From Work hard or play hard: the effect of leisure crafting on opportunity recognition and venture performance (2023) · cites this paper as Spreitzer et al., 2005
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“Lastly, the SEMT posits that, as people act in agentic ways, they produce these energic and learning resources that enhance their thriving at work (Spreitzer et al., 2005).”
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“Thriving at work should increase an entrepreneur's ability to recognize opportunities because it is closely linked to exploration (Spreitzer et al., 2005) and drives creative ideation (Carmeli and Spreitzer, 2009;Wallace et al., 2016).”
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“The SEMT is predicated on the notion that, as individuals act in an agentic manner, they generate the energic and learning resources needed to experience a sense of thriving at work (Spreitzer et al., 2005).”
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“suggesting that, though agentic behaviors serve as the key drivers of thriving at work (Spreitzer et al., 2005), engaging in as many of these behaviors as possible might not be beneficial.”
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“thriving, or “the psychological state in which individuals experience both a sense of vitality and a sense of learning at work” (Spreitzer et al. 2005, p. 538)”
From Energy Management of People in Organizations: A Review and Research Agenda (2011) · cites this paper as Spreitzer et al. 2005
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Metadata
- Authors
- Spreitzer, G., Sutcliffe, K., Dutton, J., Sonenshein, S., & Grant, A. M.
- Affiliations
- University of Michigan (US)
- Venue
- Organization Science
- Published
- 2005-10
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 537-549
- ISSN
- 1047-7039 (ISSN-L)
- 1526-5455
- OpenAlex
- W2108088985
- Cited by
- 1,604
- References
- 119
- Citations by year
- 2026: 180 · 2025: 204 · 2024: 171 · 2023: 149 · 2022: 151 · 2021: 121 · 2020: 119 · 2019: 89 · 2018: 70 · 2017: 56 · 2016: 50 · 2015: 45 · 2014: 37 · 2013: 39 · 2012: 24
- FWCI
- 15.97
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Organization Science (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Wake Forest University
- University of California, Irvine
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Social Sciences › Education › Innovative Education and Learning Practices
- Keywords
- thriving at work, social embeddedness, employee vitality, self-adaptation, resilience, eudaimonia, subjective well-being, flow, self-realization, work context, staff resources
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