Continuity in transition: Combining recovery and day‐of‐week perspectives to understand changes in employee energy across the 7‐day week

Oliver Weigelt*, Katja Siestrup, Roman Prem*

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Abstract

We integrate perspectives from research on recovery from work and perspectivesfrom day-of-week research to predict continuous as well as discontinuous changes invitality and fatigue. We examine whether changes in recovery experiences and sleepquality predict changes in human energy over the course of the weekend. Further-more, we consider positive anticipation of work at the start of the workweek andeffort during the workweek to predict changes in energy. We collected experiencesampling data from 87 employees over the course of 12 days. In total, 2,187 observa-tions nested in 972 days were eligible for analysis. Applying discontinuous growthcurve modeling, we found that human energy increases continuously during theweekend, drops on Monday, follows a passageway trajectory from Monday toThursday, and increases on Friday again. Changes in recovery experiences did notpredict changes in energy but increases in sleep quality did. Positive anticipation ofwork attenuated the drop in vitality on Monday. Effort did not predict changes inenergy over the course of the workweek. Our results suggest that the transitionbetween weekends and workweeks and vice versa accounts for considerablechanges in human energy and that weekends are recuperative, particularly becausethey provide the opportunity for better sleep.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)567-586
Number of pages20
JournalJournal of Organizational Behavior
Volume42
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun-2021
Externally publishedYes

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