Ethics and ethos: The buffering and amplifying effects of ethical behavior and virtuousness |
2004 |
1431 |
Logical and moral arguments have been made for the organizational importance of ethos or virtuousness, in addition to ethics and responsibility. Research evidence is beginning to provide, empirical support for such normative claims. This paper consid... |
From insult to injury: Explaining the impact of incivility |
2007 |
1418 |
Previous research has demonstrated that violence, harassment, and discrimination have negative consequences for individual well-being. However, this literature has focused less on subtle forms of mistreatment, such as incivility. The current study ad... |
From surviving to thriving in the gig economy: A research agenda for individuals in the new world of work |
2018 |
2979 |
How work gets done has changed fundamentally in recent decades, with a growing number of people working independently, outside of organizations in a style of work quite different from that assumed by many organizational behavior theories. To remain r... |
From Synchronizing to Harmonizing: The Process of Authenticating Multiple Work Identities |
2018 |
2184 |
To understand how people cultivate and sustain authenticity in multiple, often shifting, work roles, we analyze qualitative data gathered over five years from a sample of 48 plural careerists—people who choose to simultaneously hold and identify with... |
How work shapes well-being |
2013 |
1238 |
This chapter explores the positive and negative ways that work affects individual well-being. The authors draw on psychological research to define well-being as the subjective psychological, physical and social experiences of individuals. Following a... |
Identity work in organizations and occupations: Definitions, theories, and pathways forward |
2018 |
6540 |
Understanding how, why, and when individuals create particular self-meanings has preoccupied scholars for decades, leading to an explosion of research on identity work. We conducted a wide-ranging review of this literature with the aim of presenting ... |
Making sense of whistle-blowing’s antecedents: Learning from research on identity and ethics programs |
2009 |
1249 |
Despite a significant increase in whistle-blowing practices in work organizations, we know little about what differentiates whistle-blowers from those who observe a wrongdoing but chose not to report it. In this review article, we first highlight the... |
The missed promotion: An exercise demonstrating the importance of organizational justice |
2011 |
1282 |
Treating employees fairly produces many positive outcomes, but evidence suggests that managers’ efforts to be fair are often unsuccessful because they emphasize the wrong aspects of justice. Managers tend to emphasize distributive justice, though emp... |
Multiple jobholding: An integrative systematic review and future research agenda |
2020 |
394 |
Despite sizable but varying estimates of multiple jobholding (MJH) and decades of research across disciplines (e.g., management, economics, sociology, health and medicine), our understanding of MJH is rather limited. The purpose of this review is to ... |
Positive organizational scholarship: A critical theory perspective |
2008 |
1007 |
Positive organizational scholarship (POS) is considered an alternative approach to studying organizations; it is argued that POS plays a critical theory role in contemporary organizational scholarship. By using essays on critical theory in organizati... |
Psychological capital and authentic leadership: Measurement structure, gender comparison, and cultural extension |
2010 |
2071 |
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to test the measurement properties of the psychological capital questionnaire (PCQ) and the authentic leadership questionnaire (ALQ). Both scales' properties are tested in a diverse sample of working adults, comp... |
Relational and Identity Perspectives on Healthy versus Unhealthy Pursuit of Callings |
2012 |
1557 |
Despite growing research on the perceived desirability and positivity of callings, there is intriguing evidence that while many experience personal benefits associated with viewing their work as a calling, others may experience detrimental effects. T... |
Resilience at work: Building capacity in the face of adversity |
2012 |
3440 |
Building on and extending beyond current definitions, we define resilience at work as a positive developmental trajectory characterized by demonstrated competence in the face of, and professional growth after, experiences of adversity in the workplac... |
Resilient personality: Is grit a source of resilience? |
2020 |
2289 |
Resilience, the ability to function under adversity, is important in most aspects of life, but especially so in organizations (Britt et al., 2016; Caza and Milton, 2012). Workers face mounting stress from chronic issues such as employment uncertainty... |
See the Benefit: Adversity Appraisal and Subjective Value in Negotiation |
2018 |
320 |
Negotiation scholars know relatively little about how negotiators can overcome adverse circumstances and end negotiations with an enhanced sense of satisfaction. Using a series of two negotiations simulations, we tested whether cognitive reappraisal ... |
The stories that make us: Leaders’ origin stories and temporal identity work |
2020 |
2111 |
The stories we tell about our origins can shape how we think and act – helping us make sense of and communicate who we have “become” over time. To better understand the role that origin stories play in individuals’ work lives, we explore how 92 men a... |
Transformational leadership across cultures: Follower perception and satisfaction |
2021 |
1537 |
Leading people from diverse cultures is centrally important in organizations. This study investigates the extent to which transformational leadership behaviors are universal: by examining if leaders and followers perceive transformational leadership ... |