Journal of Managerial Psychology: Volume 39 Issue 3

Guest editorial: Mindfulness and relational systems in organizations: enabling content, context and process

William Y. Degbey, Shlomo Tarba, Baniyelme D. Zoogah, Cary Cooper

Mindfulness and creative process engagement: the mediating role of workplace relational systems

Usama Awan, Muhammad Sufyan, Irfan Ameer, Saqib Shamim, Pervaiz Akhtar, Najam Ul Zia

Despite widespread recognition of the importance of mindfulness in organizational science literature, little is known about how mindfulness motivates individuals to configure…

True knowledge vs empowering knowledge: conceptualizing a theory of mindfulness and knowledge transfer (TMKT)

Abraham Cyril Issac, Amandeep Dhir, Michael Christofi

Mindfulness is the human ability to be fully present, aware of where we are and what we're doing. This study explores on the impact of mindfulness on different elements of…

Leader mindfulness and employee safety behaviors in the workplace: a moderated mediation study

Yunshuo Liu, Shuzhen Liu, Ruijian Liu, Yuanyuan Liu

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of leader mindfulness on employee safety behaviors by focusing on the mediating role of employee resilience and the moderating…

Dark side of leadership and information technology project success: the role of mindfulness

Namra Mubarak, Jabran Khan, Sajid Bashir, Samyia Safdar

The success of projects is a major challenge for information technology (IT) project-based businesses (PBOs). Employees' negative emotions (NE) disrupt the employees' usual work…

Feeling stressed but in full flow? Leader mindfulness shapes subordinates' perseverative cognition and reaction

Haoju Xie, Xingyu Feng

This study aims to illustrate the mechanisms underlying the effect of stress on flow states in the context of a multilevel organization, in which case employees' perseverative…

Birds of a feather flock together? Leader–member trait mindfulness congruence effects on work outcomes

Linlin Zhang, Haoran Jiang, Tongwen Hu, Zhenduo Zhang

Drawing upon person–supervisor fit theory, a model is developed to illustrate how leader–member trait mindfulness (in)congruence may impact leader–member exchange (LMX) and how…

Exploring the limits of mindfulness during the COVID-19 pandemic: qualitative evidence from African context

Obinna Alo, Ahmad Arslan, Anna Yumiao Tian, Vijay Pereira

This paper is one of the first studies to examine specificities, including limits of mindfulness at work in an African organisational context, whilst dealing with the ongoing…