Despite academic and practical advice regarding the virtues of daily routines for effective work performance, such routines are vulnerable to disruption from any number of sources. To understand whether and how routine disruptions affect employees at work, we draw on cognitive energetics theory (CET) and explore the potential negative consequences of morning routine disruptions on employees’ energy allocations at work. Moreover, given that CET is fundamentally a theory of goal attainment, we examine the downstream impact of routine disruptions on employees’ work goal progress. Results from two daily experience-sampling studies show that when employees’ morning routines were disrupted, employees experienced higher levels of depletion and reduced calmness. In turn, depletion was associated negatively, and calmness was associated positively, with daily work engagement. Finally, daily work engagement was positively related to subsequent daily goal progress. These findings have important implications for our understanding of employees’ morning routines and the ways that disruptions to those routines ripple through employees’ workdays.

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跌跌撞撞地走出大门：早晨例行中断对能量的影响

尽管关于日常工作对有效工作绩效的优点提出了学术和实践建议，但此类日常工作很容易受到任何来源的干扰。为了了解日常工作中断是否以及如何影响员工的工作，我们借鉴了认知能量学理论 (CET)，并探讨了早上例行中断对员工工作能量分配的潜在负面影响。此外，鉴于 CET 从根本上是一种目标实现理论，我们研究了日常中断对员工工作目标进度的下游影响。两项日常经验抽样研究的结果表明，当员工的早晨例行公事被打乱时，员工会感到更加疲惫和平静。反过来，耗竭与负相关，平静与正相关，与日常工作参与。最后，日常工作投入与随后的日常目标进展呈正相关。这些发现对我们了解员工的早晨例行程序以及这些例行程序的中断在员工的工作日中产生的影响具有重要意义。