Improved sleep quality due to receiving help at work
- May 13
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This research, accepted at the Western Academy of Management Conference, centers around better understanding employees’ daily experiences of receiving help from coworkers and how this impacts their sleep. We partnered with a service organization for the study. (The research was accepted for presentation, but the conference was later cancelled due to COVID-19.)
Abstract: Although organizational scholars have recently started investigating the influence of sleep in the work context, current knowledge on how sleep quality can be impacted by work activities is scant. Drawing on cognitive-affective processing systems and conservation of resources theory, we propose that receiving help at work generates resources that promote wellbeing, namely sleep quality. The type of help received matters, whether task related or socio-emotional, because each type operates through different cognitive and affective mechanisms to affect sleep. Via a 10-day diary study, we test our multilevel model with 25 employees at a funeral services organization in the southeast United States, providing 75 observations. Employee’s levels of chronic insomnia, a stable resource-depleting characteristic, influences the strength of the daily links between help received and the mechanisms transmitting effects to sleep quality. We provide implications for researchers and practicing managers.
Citation: Lassu, R.A., Whiting, S.W., & Bennett, R.J. (2020). Want to sleep well tonight? An investigation of why and for whom receiving help at work is linked to improved sleep quality.
Western Academy of Management Conference. 18-21 March 2020. Waikoloa, HI {cancelled}
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