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This chapter explains how the important ideas of employee engagement and PWB can be drawn together to provide a powerful combination to benefit employees and organizations alike. Around the world there is currently a great deal of interest in the concepts of employee engagement and employee well-being. The statistics of engagement are interesting and show that improving employee engagement leads to a range of positive outcomes for organizations—they also show that in many organizations the levels of engagement are actually quite low
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Johnson, S., Robertson, I., Cooper, C.L. (2018). Well-Being and Employee Engagement. In: WELL-BEING. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62548-5_3
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