Agnieszka Czerw

• PhD
• Head of Department of Work and Organizational Psychology at SWPS University

The main purpose of this study was to investigate the validity of the Polish version of the Workplace PERMA-Profiler (WPP). Our work was guided by Martin Seligman’s perspective on positive psychology, emphasizing well-being as its central theme, flourishing as the gold standard for measuring well-being, and the ultimate goal of increasing flourishi...

Ethical organizational climate is a pivotal topic in business ethics, influencing employees’ well-being and attitude toward the organization. In Poland, there is a lack of measures dedicated to verifying organizational climate. Our research aimed to examine the psychometrical properties of the Ethical Climate Questionnaire (ECQ) in Polish business...

A The aim of this article is to present the results of studies investigating the relationship between trust in supervisor and in co-workers and trust in the organization as an institution on the one hand, and employee well-being on the other hand. The presented research project was carried out from the perspective of building a positive organizatio...

Abstract Objectives: The aim of the paper is to present the findings from a study of the relationships between perception of worklife areas and trust in supervisor and interpersonal trust on the one hand, and assessment of the severity of stress at work on the other hand. Material and Methods: The study involved 1113 individuals working in differen...

Objectives: The main aim of the presented study was to check the level of perceived dimensions of work according to Peter Warr's model of wellbeing at work (referred to as the Vitamin Model). The main aim was to verify: a) the non-linear dependency of well-being and the first group of "vitamins" of the model; and b) the linear dependency for the s...

Schwartz created a circle of values reflecting people's individual systems of goals and motivations. These values can be grouped into different dimensions: self-protection versus self-growth and concentration on others versus concentration on self. In the present study, we analysed how these dimensions are related to hedonic and eudaimonic well-bei...

Recent research demonstrates that finding the meaning of work (MW) is a growing need among employees. It thus seems vital to examine the predictors and outcomes of meaningful work with the aim of identifying practical implications for employees and organizations in this area. However, there are several different concepts of MW and only a handful of...

This article presents a proposal for a questionnaire diagnosing the well-being of employees in terms of eudemonia. This questionnaire stems from two theories on psychological and social well-being, already used in positive psychology. The construction of this questionnaire and its subsequent confirmatory studies were conducted on the group of 724 w...

W rozdziale Poczucie sensu pracy – czym jest i jak je wspierać? M. Puchalska-‑Kamińska i A. Czerw podkreślają, że poczucie sensu i znaczenia pracy jest zmienną, która coraz częściej pojawia się w obszarze zainteresowań psychologów pracy oraz praktyków pracujących w obszarze zarządzania zasobami ludzkimi. Potrzeba posiadania sensownej i znaczącej pr...

Background: The article presents the mutual relations between the components of work ethic and the strategies of coping with stress used by employees of different branches. Material and methods: Work ethic was presented as a syndrome of the following attitudes: perceiving work as a moral value, treating work as a central value in life, and the b...

This article presents a proposal for a questionnaire diagnosing the well-being of employees in terms of eudemonia. This questionnaire stems from two theories on psychological and social well-being, already used in positive psychology. The construction of this questionnaire and its subsequent confirmatory studies were conducted on the group of 724 w...

Presented study deals with verification of vitamin model of employee’s well-being by Peter Warr (Warr & Clapperton, 2010). This model assumes that the employee make a subjective assessment of the twelve characteristics of work resulting in well-being feeling at a certain level. The characteristics of work has been divided, according to the model, i...

Presented study deals with verification of vitamin model of employee’s well-being by Peter Warr (Warr & Clapperton, 2010). This model assumes that the employee make a subjective assessment of the twelve characteristics of work resulting in well-being feeling at a certain level. The characteristics of work has been divided, according to the model, i...

Purpose - The article aims to attempt to define the work and organization engagement of the employees of one of the exclusive hotel spa in Poland. The present paper proposes that organizational roles taken by employees differentiate symptoms of their engagement. The research aims to test the hypothesis and to show the differences at the level of co...

The aim of the article is to present a new Polish tool for measuring the flow experience in professional tasks - a FLOW-W Questionnaire. The questionnaire was inspired by Csikszentmihalyi’s (1990) flow theory and flow in Bakker’s work (2008). On its basis a set of positions was established, on which subsequently an exploratory (study 1, N = 101) an...

Problematyka dobrostanu w sytuacji pracy, rozumianego jako coś więcej niż satysfakcja z pracy, jest stosunkowo nowym obszarem badań, który podejmowany jest w raczej nielicznych kręgach naukowych. Zagadnienie to stało się popularne na fali rozwoju psychologii pozytywnej, w ramach której pojawiło się pojęcie „pozytywnej psychologii organizacji”. Agni...

Employee’s well-being may depend on two types of fitting: person-work fit and person-organization fit (Kristof-Brown, Zimmerman & Johnson, 2005; Edwards, Cable, Williamson, Lambert, & Shipp, 2006; Greguras & Diefendorff, 2009; Park, Monnot, Jacob & Wagner, 2011; Czerw, Czarnota-Bojarska, in press). This research concerns the problem of the impact o...

Background. The proper functioning of man in different areas of their life depends largely on their personal resources. This equipment becomes especially important in the case of high environmental requirements (e.g. in an organisation), which may lead to negative psychological phenomena such as job burnout. Research aims. The aim of this paper is...

Artykuł jest wprowadzeniem do numeru tematycznego, w którym zebrano badania dotyczące subiektyw-nych stanów poznawczych pracownika odczuwanych w kontekście pracy, które mogą stać się znaczącymi motywatorami do pracy. Za najważniejsze tego typu stany poznawcze uważamy dopasowanie człowiek– praca i człowiek–organizacja oraz postrzeganie pracy jako wa...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between work engagement and the psychological traits of employees, such as attitudes towards work and work ethic. Additionally, the study included demographic characteristics of employees and organizational characteristics. Research was conducted using the Polish adaptations of two well...

Optimism is one human characteristic which for many years has been of central interest to psychology. This variable is usually treated as a one-dimensional human trait. This text presents a different view of optimism. It includes a discussion of a multidimensional questionnaire for the measurement of optimism: the Optimistic Attitude Questionnaire...

The paper presents the preliminary version of the job eudaimonic well-being questionnaire and the first research results of its use. The questionnaire was inspired by two theories of eudaimonic well-being in different contexts. It was a Carol Ryff’s multidimensional theory of happiness and Corey Keyes’ social well-being theory. Measurements in both...

W artykule zaprezentowano nowe narzędzie diagnozujące postrzegane cechy pracy, które zgodnie z witaminowym modelem dobrostanu w pracy P. Warra powinny być istotnie związane z dobrostanem pracowniczym. Prezentowane badania przeprowadzono we współpracy z TAW Polska, na grupie 330 zróżnicowanych co do stanowisk, stażu pracy oraz wykształcenia pracowni...

One of the key concepts in positive psychology is well-being. This phenomenon is analyzed from two possible perspectives: hedonic (pleasant life) and eudaimonic (meaningful life). These two ways of understanding subject’s quality of life result in a different research methods. In the hedonic approach, we have to deal with the measurements of emotio...

Background. World literature in the area of management, which takes into account the psychological aspects of human functioning in the work situation, more and more deals with the phenomenon of well-being. Many authors emphasize for example the economic benefits to the organization resulting from the concern for the well-being of their employees....

Artykuł skupia się na fenomenie misji społecznej, a dokładniej na poczuciu misji, które wydaje się istotną determinantą zarówno wyboru, jak i kontynuowania pracy w grupie zawodów z ważną funkcją społeczną. Tekst stanowi próbę zdefi niowania pojęcia misji społecznej odczuwanej w kontekście wykonywanego zawodu. Dokonano także porównania zawodów z mis...

Celem artykułu jest analiza i ocena wpływu transformacyjnego stylu kierowania na budowę pozytywnej organizacji. Opierają się one na teoretycznych założeniach oraz licznych badaniach prowadzonych w wielu krajach, dotyczących efektów sto-sowania w organizacji transformacyjnego stylu kierowania, a także wprowadzania do zarządzania założeń psychologii...

Niniejszy rozdział ma na celu przedstawienie kilku przykładów diagnozy przeprowadzonej Kwestionariuszem Zainteresowań Zawodowych (Nosal i inni, 2006; Bajcar, Gąsiorowska, 2006) na podstawie indywidualnych profili. Do analizy wybrano osiem przypadków realnych osób, z którymi wcześniej przeprowadzono wywiad ustrukturalizowany. Kryterium przyjęcia dan...