{"id":429,"date":"2018-05-14T09:52:18","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T08:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/business-and-society\/?p=429"},"modified":"2018-05-14T10:04:30","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T09:04:30","slug":"the-costs-of-employee-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/business-and-society\/2018\/05\/14\/the-costs-of-employee-engagement\/","title":{"rendered":"The costs of employee engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/business-and-society\/2017\/05\/10\/going-the-extra-mile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Going the extra mile<\/a>\" at work - helping colleagues, going beyond the confines of a narrow job\u00a0description, taking on extra responsibilities - can help people feel more engaged with their work, improve job satisfaction and increase promotion prospects. But at what cost?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/researchportal.bath.ac.uk\/en\/persons\/bruce-rayton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bruce Rayton<\/a>, Professor of Management at the University of Bath, recently presented research at the <a href=\"http:\/\/engageemployee.com\/employee-engagement-summit-focuses-human-face-engagement-people-come-first\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Employee Engagement Summit 2018<\/a>, which shows that employees who work beyond the narrow boundaries of their job roles are at increased\u00a0risk of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mentalhealth.org.uk\/campaigns\/mental-health-awareness-week\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mental health problems<\/a>. Here is Bruce's presentation from the Summit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<iframe src='https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/96616790' width='425' height='348' sandbox=\"allow-popups allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-presentation\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about Bruce's research in his <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/why-going-the-extra-mile-at-work-could-be-a-backward-step-71026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Conversation article<\/a> published last year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6>Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/vpickering\/10862748303\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Working late by Victoria Pickering<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\"Going the extra mile\" at work - helping colleagues, going beyond the confines of a narrow job\u00a0description, taking on extra responsibilities - can help people feel more engaged with their work, improve job satisfaction and increase promotion prospects. But at...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":943,"featured_media":362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,44,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-and-society","category-employers","category-research"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/business-and-society\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2017\/05\/working-late-blog.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd4Pj1-6V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/business-and-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/business-and-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/business-and-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/business-and-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/943"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/business-and-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/business-and-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/business-and-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/business-and-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/business-and-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/business-and-society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}