Journal of Managerial Psychology: Volume 37 Issue 4

Non-work-related instant messaging in the workplace and daily task performance: complementarity between social and cognitive resources

Jing Du, Wei Fan, Jin Nam Choi

The ubiquity of smartphones has changed how people communicate, work and entertain. In view of conservation of resources theory and the positive spillover effect, this study…

Why and when are silent employees less satisfied with their jobs? A conservation of resources perspective

Hui-Hsien Hsieh, Jie-Tsuen Huang

Employee silence is pervasive in the workplace and can be severely detrimental to employees' job satisfaction. However, research on why and when employee silence undermines job…

Gender, formal organizational status and humor use: perceptions of social acceptance

Timothy R. Moake, Christopher Robert

Humor can be a useful tool in the workplace, but it remains unclear whether humor used by men versus women is perceived similarly due to social role expectations. This paper…

Can you manage shocks? An investigation of career shocks on proactive career behavior: a COR theory perspective

Zulqurnain Ali, Aqsa Mehreen

Considerable research has been done to link career-development strategies to career-management success, but little is known about how career shocks (CSs) relate to proactive…

Interrupting the crossover effect of leader's role overload on employee's negative affect: the moderating role of self-concordance goal

Long Chen, Ming Chen, Hengjie Zhang, Xiao-Ming Yan

The purpose of the study is to examine the crossover effect of leader's role overload on employee's negative affect. More importantly, the stuy will identify the buffering role of…

Deep-level dissimilarity and leader–member exchange (LMX) quality: the role of status

Theano Lianidou, Ashley Lytle, Maria Kakarika

This study explores how status, demographic and positional, moderates the negative effect of deep-level dissimilarity on leader–member exchange (LMX) quality.