... and by creating conditions that support employees’ proactive engagement with their work. Originality/value By integrating work design, agentic behavior and thriving from a dynamic perspective, this study advances understanding of how and when work design resources are translated into sustained vitality...

... experienced by those who have lived through an era of downsizing. However, it will raise the need to develop new competencies to cope with the changes in work design. The need for more studies on numerically restricted but meaningful work populations (such as teleworkers, virtual teams, international managers...