Topic: Stress Publication: Journal of Applied Psychology Article: Theories of job stress and the role of traditional values: A longitudinal study in China. Blogger: Larry Martinez Here’s an ultra-brief but necessary synopsis of stress theory: difficult, restrictive jobs create stress, and stress is bad for your health. Researchers suggest mediating the negative effects of
Topic: Decision Making, Judgement Publication: Academy of Management Article: Resolving the commitment versus flexibility tradeoff: The role of resource accumulation lags. Blogger: Katie Bachman Ceteris paribus—all else equal—is the economist’s favorite term. It covers all manner of sins because, as we know in psychology, nothing is ever equal or same or whatever. It is the assumption of no variance and it is the mark of an economics article, which is
Topic: Citizenship Behavior, Organizational Justice Publication: Journal of Organizational Behavior Article: Meta-analytic tests of relationships between organizational justice and citizenship behavior: Testing agent-system and shared-variance models. Blogger: Benjamin Granger Leaders are recognizing that organizations, employees, and customers benefit from non-required cooperative behaviors that go on in the workplace. These behaviors are referred to as
Personality tests are oftentimes part of the hiring process. How can organizations ensure that job applicants do not fake responses?
Topic: Change Management, Job Attitudes, Organizational Performance Publication: Journal of Business Research Article: Exploring civic virtue and turnover intention during organizational changes. Blogger: LitDigger If you buy me a coffee, I’ll tell you what I know. If you cover my shift, I’ll cover yours next week. If you buy me dinner,
Topic: Diversity Publication: Human Resource Management Article: Making public organizations more inclusive: A case study of the Victoria Police Force. Blogger: Rob Stilson In this study, the authors address change strategies implemented in the Victoria Police Force (VPF) of Australia to move the VFP from being somewhat of a good ole’ boys club
Topic: Job Performance Publication: Journal of Applied Psychology Article: How the Rich (and Happy) Get Richer (and Happier): Relationship of Core Self-Evaluations to Trajectories in Attaining Work Success. Blogger: Rob Stilson OK, the scope of this article is beyond this blog (or perhaps the blogger), but I will give you the highlights and
An experimental study finds that non-White people may be passed over for leadership positions due to biased expectations of what makes a good leader.
Topic: Motivation Publication: Journal of Applied Psychology Article: Self-efficacy and resource allocation: Support for a nonmonotonic, discontinuous model. Blogger: Benjamin Granger Imagine a football game in which you have the inside scoop on the competing teams’ overall self-efficacy for performing well in the upcoming game. Team A is highly confident that they will perform well and
Topic: Creativity Publication: Journal of Management Article: Multiple tasks’ and multiple goals’ effect on creativity: Forced incubation or just a distraction? Blogger: Benjamin Granger There’s no doubt that organizations value employee creativity. Researchers Madjar and Shalley (2008) wanted to identify factors that influence creativity at work. Specifically, they wanted to find out the following:
