ABSTRACT
In the past two decades, researchers in the fields of organizational psychology and management have increasingly focused on the occurrence of flow in the work context across a wide range of occupations and organizational contexts, including scientists, medical doctors, software engineers and school teachers. They identified important antecedents of flow at work, including individual difference components, work environment characteristics, and the additive or interactive effects of the two. This chapter focuses on the role of flow in organizations and the strategies organizations could adopt to redesign the work environment in order to foster their employees' experience of flow at work. It reviews a selection of research on flow that is directly relevant to any organizational intervention. The chapter outlines four promising strategies that organizations can adopt to foster their employees' flow at work: worker-job matching, applying and developing the progress principle to team flow, selection of work flow-ers, and fostering the metacognition of flow.
