Journal of Managerial Psychology: Volume 31 Issue 2

Job enlargement, job crafting and the moderating role of self-competence

Domenico Berdicchia, Francesco Nicolli, Giovanni Masino

– The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between job enlargement and some specific job crafting behaviors and to analyze the moderating role of self-competence.

Authentic leadership and team climate: testing cross-lagged relationships

Ulla Kinnunen, Taru Feldt, Saija Mauno

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships between authentic leadership and team climate across 22 months. More specifically, three alternative causation models…

Pre-employment good impression and subsequent job performance

Richard Ian Lanyon, Leonard D Goodstein

Previous research has not demonstrated a consistent relationship between pre-employment measures of good impression (GI) response bias and subsequent job performance. The purpose…

Prosocial motive and helping behavior: examining helping efficacy and instrumentality

Byoung Kwon Choi, Hyoung Koo Moon

Building on trait activation theory, theory of other orientation, and self-perception theory, the purpose of this paper is to examine how employees’ perceptions of helping…

Examining the impostor phenomenon and work-family conflict

Wayne S Crawford, Kristen K. Shanine, Marilyn V. Whitman, K. Michele Kacmar

The purpose of this paper is to examine the moderated-mediational relationship between the impostor phenomenon (IP) and work-to-family conflict (WFC). Building on conservation of…

Dark side of personality, intelligence, creativity, and managerial level

Gorkan Ahmetoglu, Stacey Dobbs, Adrian Furnham, John Crump, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Elmira Bakhshalian

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship of the Five-Factor Model Personality Disorder (FFM PD) count technique to industrial, work, and organizational (IWO…

Abusive supervision: subordinate personality or supervisor behavior?

Jeremy Brees, Mark Martinko, Paul Harvey

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether employees’ personalities are associated with their perceptions of abusive supervision.

Individual difference predictors of perceived organizational change fairness

Xiaohong Xu, Stephanie C. Payne, Margaret T. Horner, Allison L. Alexander

The purpose of this paper is to examine how individual differences influence employees’ attitude toward organizational change. Specifically, the present study examined how and why…

Core personality traits of managers

John W. Lounsbury, Eric D. Sundstrom, Lucy W. Gibson, James M. Loveland, Adam W. Drost

The purpose of this paper is to empirically compare managers with employees in other occupations on Big Five and narrow personality traits to identify a distinctive personality…

High-performance work systems and job satisfaction: a multilevel model

Romina García-Chas, Edelmira Neira-Fontela, Concepción Varela-Neira

The purpose of this investigation is to analyze the role of perceived organizational support (POS) and intrinsic motivation in the relationship between high-performance work…

Proactive personality and career success

Fu Yang, Rebecca Chau

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relation of subordinate proactive personality with subjective evaluations of career success by direct supervisors, as well as…

Authenticity at work – a job-demands resources perspective

U. Baran Metin, Toon W. Taris, Maria C. W. Peeters, Ilona van Beek, Ralph Van den Bosch

Previous research has demonstrated strong relations between work characteristics (e.g. job demands and job resources) and work outcomes such as work performance and work…

Why and when does ethical leadership evoke unethical follower behavior?

Karianne Kalshoven, Hans van Dijk, Corine Boon

In examining whether social exchange or social identity mechanisms drive the relationship between ethical leadership and unethical pro-organizational behavior (UPB), the purpose…

Normative measurement of job satisfaction in the US

Michael A Gillespie, William K Balzer, Michelle H Brodke, Maya Garza, Erin N Gerbec, Jennifer Z Gillespie, Purnima Gopalkrishnan, Joel S Lengyel, Katherine A Sliter, Michael T Sliter, Scott A Withrow, Jennifer E Yugo

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the importance of norms and inference, while providing national overall and subgroup norms for the updated Job Descriptive Index and Job in…

Leadership development practices as drivers of employee attitudes

Violetta Khoreva

The purpose of this paper is to examine the association between leadership development practices and the following employee attitudes: affective commitment, commitment to…

Understanding and mitigating cynicism in the workplace

Kristyn A. Scott, David Zweig

Organizational cynicism is on the increase. The purpose of this paper is to explore how dispositions promote cynical attitudes and how to mitigate the negative impact of…

Organizational powerlessness, dehumanization, and gendered effects of procedural justice

Chris M Bell, Careen Khoury

The purpose of this paper is to test whether procedural justice effects on organizational powerlessness and dehumanization are stronger for women than men and, consequently…

Work-life balance and its relationship with organizational pride and job satisfaction

Marta Mas-Machuca, Jasmina Berbegal-Mirabent, Ines Alegre

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between work-life balance, organizational pride and job satisfaction. When evaluating employee work-life balance the…

Gender differences in career planning and success

Yuhee Jung, Norihiko Takeuchi

The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it attempts to examine how employees’ career planning (CP) interacts with the quality of leader-member exchange (LMX) to explain…

How and when customer feedback influences organizational health

Petra Kipfelsberger, Dennis Herhausen, Heike Bruch

The purpose of this paper is to explore how and when customers influence organizational climate and organizational health through their feedback. Based on affective events theory…