IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/iik/wpaper/220.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Disengagement at work: A conservation of resources perspective

Author

Listed:
  • Ashish Rastogi

    (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode)

  • Surya Prakash Pati

    (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode)

  • TN Krishnan

    (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode)

  • Satish Krishnan

    (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode)

Abstract

Disengagement at work has been a cause of concern for the business world for a while now. Claims are made that in excess of 70 percent of the workforce is either passively or actively disengaged, having enormous financial implications. However, urgency and extent of the practitioner discourse on the subject does not find resonance in academic research. In response to calls for better understanding of disengagement at work (e.g. Valentin, 2014; Wollard, 2011), we seek to consolidate the extant approaches employing Conservation of Resources (COR, Hobfoll,1989) as the guiding theory. This integrative literature review proposes a conceptual model that explains the phenomenon of disengagement at work along with its antecedents, moderating influences and outcomes. Implications for research and practice have been discussed. Such an attempt is likely to encourage an informed debate on the subject in the academic domain, while simultaneously helping practitioners identify actionable antecedents and consequences of disengagement at work.

Suggested Citation

  • Ashish Rastogi & Surya Prakash Pati & TN Krishnan & Satish Krishnan, 2017. "Disengagement at work: A conservation of resources perspective," Working papers 220, Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode.
    • Handle: RePEc:iik:wpaper:220
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://iimk.ac.in/websiteadmin/FacultyPublications/Working%20Papers/220abs.pdf?t=19
    File Function: First version, 2016
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:iik:wpaper:220. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sudheesh Kumar (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/iikmmin.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.