Passion in the workplace: empirical insights from team sport organisations

Anagnostopoulos, Christos; Winand, Mathieu; Papadimitriou, Dimitra

doi:10.1080/16184742.2016.1178794

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“…However, the level of harmonious passion measured in the present study using Vallerand et al's (2003) dualistic model is lower than that in a recent study (Anagnostopoulos et al, 2016) of employees within football clubs and charities in the United Kingdom. Job satisfaction and career satisfaction show high scores, whereas job security shows a moderate score; that is, lower than what one would expect from employees in municipal sport organisations, 71.2 per cent of whom were on tenure contracts.…”

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“…These findings are associated with those of Anagnostopoulos et al (2016), who showed that employees (in the context of team sport organisations) remain harmoniously passionate throughout their career; this would suggest that employees with harmonious passion would show satisfaction throughout their careers. The level of education and tenure were found to be significantly positively related to employees' career satisfaction, which contrasts with previous research findings (Seibert and Kraimer, 2001;Yap et al, 2010).…”

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“…The first study reports the concept of passion as an intrinsic stimulus for the formulation of community programmes (Anagnostopoulos et al, 2014), albeit without measuring the extent to which managers therein are passionate about their jobs. The second study (Anagnostopoulos et al, 2016) addresses the aforementioned shortcoming, although without making it possible to establish any sort of causality between passion at work and other job-related constructs. It is only recently that Swanson and Kent (2016) studied just that by examining the influence of passion (as well as pride) on employees of professional sport organisations.…”

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“…Based on the above assumptions, the lack of exploration of the mediating role of job security in the passion-satisfaction relationship is considered an important omission in the extant literature, because it limits our ability to understand the explanatory power passion has in the workplace (Houlfort and Vallerand, 2006), and for that matter, in the sport working environment (Anagnostopoulos et al, 2016). Addressing this omission also becomes timely when one considers that the sport organisations' workforce has not been immune from the negative ramifications of the economic crisis that hit certain European countries particularly hard.…”

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Job and career satisfaction in an austerity environment: the role of job security and passion towards work

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This study investigates the role of passion in forming job and career satisfaction among employees in the sport industry using the dualistic model of passion developed by Vallerand et al. (2003). The research was conducted within a context of austerity measures and aimed to examine the mediating effects of job security in the relationship between passion and satisfaction at work. Employees within Greek municipal sport organisations completed a selfadministered questionnaire (N=170) in order to measure their level of passion towards their work (both harmonious and obsessive), their job and career satisfaction, and their perceptions of job security. Data were treated with Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and multiple regression analyses using SPSS and Amos 21.0. The findings reveal that harmonious passion is significantly positively related to both job and career satisfaction, and that job security mediates these relationships. The research demonstrates the benefits of having harmoniously passionate employees, as well as the importance of strengthening or retaining feelings of job security under drastic socio-economic measures.

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“…With the results indicating that sport identification has a positive impact in the sport workplace, future studies should also look to consider its relationship with a variety of other workplace attitudes and behaviours. For example, the role of that sport identification might play in facilitating passion in the sport workplace (e.g., Anagnostopoulos, Winand, and Papadimitriou, 2016) is one particular area worthy of future consideration. Furthermore, with the current findings providing an additional target of identification highly relevant to the sport, there may also be scope for revising Todd and Kent's (2009) model to account for these newly found sport-specific predictors of workplace outcomes.…”

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Sport identification and employee pride: key factors in sport employee psychology

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2017

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The current study used a positive psychology approach to gain insight on employees working within the professional sports industry. While psychological fulfillment has been proposed as a critical area of distinction for managing in the sport environment, there is a need for empirical investigation relating to this proposition. The purpose of the current study was to address this gap in the literature and assess the role of psychological fulfillment in the form of sport employee pride. This study also addresses the role of identification with a specific sport and introduces this concept to the organisational behaviour literature more generally. More than 1,000 employees from five different professional sports leagues participated in the study, with structural equation modelling results providing support for sport identification and employee pride having a positive influence on satisfaction and organisational citizenship behaviour. Implications for sport managers are that employees working in this environment can have a psychological connection with a particular sport, which in turn augments employee pride and leads to positive attitudes and behaviours in the workplace. The results of this study are significant to sport managers in relation to human resource decisions and promoting positive psychology in the workplace.

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Corporate social responsibility and innovative work behavior: Is it a matter of perceptions?

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The paper investigates the influence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on Innovative Work Behavior (IWB). The mediating role of passion and organizational commitment is investigated for understanding the effect of CSR on companies' performances by adopting a behavioral perspective. Based on the exploratory literature review conducted during the period from 1990 to 2020 and the content analysis method, we explore possible relationships among CSR, human capital, relational capital, and innovative work behaviors. Building upon the evidence from the literature review, a set of propositions have been defined for supporting both researchers and practitioners in enhancing the potential contribution of perceived CSR to improve companies' performance by adopting IWBs. The paper enriches ongoing debate about CSR's influence on companies' performances investigating the pivotal role of perceptions about CSR practices in influencing IWBs within the business field.

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Passion in the workplace: empirical insights from team sport organisations

Cited by 40 publications

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Job and career satisfaction in an austerity environment: the role of job security and passion towards work

Job and career satisfaction in an austerity environment: the role of job security and passion towards work

Sport identification and employee pride: key factors in sport employee psychology

Corporate social responsibility and innovative work behavior: Is it a matter of perceptions?

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