Professional Identity and the Satisfaction With the Professional Activities as Factors of Well-Being in the Workplace

Background. Th e present paper discusses the relevance of identifying oneself with a professionalism, the attitude to the profession and the role in the professional activity as an integral characteristic of the professional identity among representatives of diff erent positions. Objective. Th e identifi cation of the relationship between the professional identity and satisfaction with professional activities (work process, working conditions, organization, choice of profession, etc.) and well-being in the workplace among representatives of various positions. Sample. 11 558 employees (7,373 women, 63.8%, and 4,175 men, 36.2%) of a large energy company in the Russian Federation. Methods. Th e participants fi lled in the questionnaire on the components of job satisfaction, the scales of the work involvement, the boredom at the workplace, the emotional exhaustion and initiative. Results. Th e representatives of diff erent positions are most satisfi ed with the benefi ts of their work for people, with their choice of profession and the profession itself and the labour process but they are less satisfi ed with the working conditions, payment, management and professional prospect. As for representatives of all the positions, involvement in the work, a low level of boredom and emotional exhaustion and initiative depend on not only the satisfaction with working conditions, payment, management and the professional prospect but also on the satisfaction with the choice of profession, the profession itself, its content, the benefi t to people and the labour process. Conclusion. Regardless of the position and satisfaction with working conditions, the satisfaction with the choice of profession, its content and benefi ts for people and the labour itself predict the involvement in work, initiative, a low level of emotional exhaustion and the boredom at work.