Balancing the energy equation : the interplay of regulatory and emotional resources in sustaining workforce We/I-being
Start Date
21-2-2025 3:20 PM
End Date
21-2-2025 3:40 PM
Description
Work energy management is a pivotal strategy for safeguarding employee health within the workplace. The escalating demands of work have resulted in pervasive energy depletion, posing a threat to the sustainable development of the workforce. Yet some fundamental conceptual and theoretical aspects of work energy are still subjects of debate. This study focuses on regulatory and emotional resources, two critical psychological assets that influence immediate work engagement. While both are acknowledged as important, the extent to which they function as distinct forms of work energy is unclear in current literature.
We reviewed related articles and proposed some viewpoints on the energy concept system, examining the interplay between personal, emotional, relational, and regulatory energies. Based on this and by drawn on self-depletion theory and the emotion regulation process as a journey theory, we explored a phenomenon where the regulated emotion (which expends regulatory resource) serves to support later emotional work. We thus revealed a way that emotional resource can compensate regulatory resource at task level. This may have interesting implications for thinking about what, why, and when certain things are resources in term of capacity to do work, or can even applied to a more general level.
Speaker
Prof JIANG Xin-hui
Professor & Vice Dean, Business School, Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, China
I am a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Business, Yun nan University of Finance and Economics. I serve as the Vice Dean of the school, and is the founding president of the Yun nan Human Resource Management Association. I have published papers in journals such as Human Resource Management, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Personnel Review, Journal of Happiness Studies, and The International Journal of Human Resource Management. With four National Natural Science Foundation projects, my research focuses on human resource management and wellbeing, especially on work energy management and its impact on employee health and development.
Co-author(s)
Maoling WANG; Nannan CHEN; Kexin ZHANG; Yufang DAI
Document Type
Presentation
Recommended Citation
Jiang, X.-h. (2025, February 21). Balancing the energy equation: The interplay of regulatory and emotional resources in sustaining workforce We/I-being. Presentation presented at the International Conference and Workshop on Health and Well-being in the Digital Era. Lingnan University, Hong Kong.
Balancing the energy equation : the interplay of regulatory and emotional resources in sustaining workforce We/I-being
Work energy management is a pivotal strategy for safeguarding employee health within the workplace. The escalating demands of work have resulted in pervasive energy depletion, posing a threat to the sustainable development of the workforce. Yet some fundamental conceptual and theoretical aspects of work energy are still subjects of debate. This study focuses on regulatory and emotional resources, two critical psychological assets that influence immediate work engagement. While both are acknowledged as important, the extent to which they function as distinct forms of work energy is unclear in current literature.
We reviewed related articles and proposed some viewpoints on the energy concept system, examining the interplay between personal, emotional, relational, and regulatory energies. Based on this and by drawn on self-depletion theory and the emotion regulation process as a journey theory, we explored a phenomenon where the regulated emotion (which expends regulatory resource) serves to support later emotional work. We thus revealed a way that emotional resource can compensate regulatory resource at task level. This may have interesting implications for thinking about what, why, and when certain things are resources in term of capacity to do work, or can even applied to a more general level.