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The recovery paradox: Portraying the complex interplay between job stressors, lack of recovery, and poor well-being
This article presents explanations for the recovery paradox, discusses moderating factors, and suggests avenues for future research. (Source: Research in Organizational Behavior)
Source: Research in Organizational Behavior - December 12, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

From surviving to thriving in the gig economy: A research agenda for individuals in the new world of work
Publication date: Available online 1 December 2018Source: Research in Organizational BehaviorAuthor(s): Susan J. Ashford, Brianna Barker Caza, Erin M. ReidAbstractHow 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 relevant, our research on individual work behaviors and the capabilities that enable them must also adapt to this new world of work, the so-called “gig economy.” We first describe the predictable challenges that in...
Source: Research in Organizational Behavior - December 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

From inconsistency to hypocrisy: When does “saying one thing but doing another” invite condemnation?
Publication date: Available online 12 November 2018Source: Research in Organizational BehaviorAuthor(s): Daniel A. Effron, Kieran O’Connor, Hannes Leroy, Brian J. LucasAbstractIt is not always possible for leaders, teams, and organizations to practice what they preach. Misalignment between words and deeds can invite harsh interpersonal consequences, such as distrust and moral condemnation, which have negative knock-on effects throughout organizations. Yet the interpersonal consequences of such misalignment are not always severe, and are sometimes even positive. This paper presents a new model of when and why audiences re...
Source: Research in Organizational Behavior - November 14, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Moral Utility Theory: Understanding the motivation to behave (un)ethically
Publication date: Available online 8 November 2018Source: Research in Organizational BehaviorAuthor(s): Jacob B. Hirsh, Jackson G. Lu, Adam D. GalinskyAbstractMoral Utility Theory provides an integrative framework for understanding the motivational basis of ethical decision making by modeling it as a process of subjective expected utility (SEU) maximization. The SEUs of ethical and unethical behavioral options are proposed to be assessed intuitively during goal pursuit, with unethical conduct emerging when the expected benefits of moral transgressions outweigh the expected costs. A key insight of the model is that any fact...
Source: Research in Organizational Behavior - November 9, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Unjust punishment in organizations
Publication date: Available online 6 November 2018Source: Research in Organizational BehaviorAuthor(s): Marlon Mooijman, Jesse GrahamAbstractWhat causes leaders to punish subordinates unjustly? And why might leaders keep punishing subordinates unjustly, even when this increases workplace misconduct? In the current paper we address these questions by suggesting that power and status cause leaders to punish unjustly. We review evidence on the effects of power and status on punishment, review how unjust punishments foster misconduct, and highlight how this creates a self-perpetuating feedback loop—leaders are more likely to...
Source: Research in Organizational Behavior - November 6, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

List of Contributors
Publication date: 2016Source: Research in Organizational Behavior, Volume 36Author(s): (Source: Research in Organizational Behavior)
Source: Research in Organizational Behavior - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Emotional division-of-labor: A theoretical account
Publication date: 2016Source: Research in Organizational Behavior, Volume 36Author(s): Hillary Anger ElfenbeinAbstractDivision-of-labor is an account of how individuals vary in the types of contributions they make towards collective work efforts. This paper extends the longstanding concept into the realm of emotion in organizations, by developing a theoretical account of emotional division-of-labor (EDOL). Activities that require emotional abilities permeate the roles necessary for interdependent tasks in modern organizations. As with any other form of human capital, it is not necessary to draw equally from each person. Wo...
Source: Research in Organizational Behavior - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Does positivity enhance work performance?: Why, when, and what we don’t know
Publication date: 2016Source: Research in Organizational Behavior, Volume 36Author(s): Elizabeth R. Tenney, Jared M. Poole, Ed DienerAbstractThere is evidence, spanning many decades of research, that the subjective well-being (SWB) of workers, including life satisfaction, job satisfaction, and positive affect, positively correlates with the performance of workers and organizations. However, the size of the relationships is typically small to moderate. In this review we address the question of why the relationships are not stronger. We first review evidence of a relationship moving from well-being to performance through var...
Source: Research in Organizational Behavior - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Betwixt and between identities: Liminal experience in contemporary careers
Publication date: 2016Source: Research in Organizational Behavior, Volume 36Author(s): Herminia Ibarra, Otilia ObodaruAbstractLiminality, defined as a state of being betwixt and between social roles and/or identities, is the hallmark of an increasingly precarious and fluctuating career landscape. The generative potential of the liminality construct, however, has been restricted by six key assumptions stemming from the highly institutionalized nature of the rites of passage originally studied. As originally construed, liminality (1) implied both an objective state and the subjective experience of feeling betwixt and between...
Source: Research in Organizational Behavior - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Routines and transactive memory systems: Creating, coordinating, retaining, and transferring knowledge in organizations
Publication date: 2016Source: Research in Organizational Behavior, Volume 36Author(s): Linda Argote, Jerry M. GuoAbstractThis chapter compares and contrasts the effects of two knowledge repositories, routines and transactive memory systems (TMSs), on knowledge creation, coordination, retention and transfer. We provide overviews of research on the two knowledge repositories, with particular attention to how they form and change. We then discuss the relationship between routines and TMSs. We also compare and contrast routines and TMSs in terms of their capabilities to promote knowledge creation, coordination, retention and t...
Source: Research in Organizational Behavior - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

A dynamic and cyclical model of bounded ethicality
Publication date: 2016Source: Research in Organizational Behavior, Volume 36Author(s): Dolly Chugh, Mary C. KernAbstractWe introduce a new model of bounded ethicality which helps explain three persistent puzzles of ethical behavior: when moral awareness is or is not present, when ethical behavior is more or less consistent with past behavior, and when blind spots obscure our ethical failures. The original conception of bounded ethicality (Chugh, Banaji, & Bazerman, 2005) described the systematic psychological constraints on ethical behavior and has contributed to our field's understanding of the phenomena of everyday, “o...
Source: Research in Organizational Behavior - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Click and mortar: Organizations on the web
Publication date: 2016Source: Research in Organizational Behavior, Volume 36Author(s): Walter W. Powell, Aaron Horvath, Christof BrandtnerAbstractThe webpages of organizations are both a form of representation and a type of narrative. They entertain, persuade, express a point of view, and provide a means to organize collective action and economic exchange. Increasingly, webpages are the primary point of access between an organization and its environment. An organization's online presence offers a major new source of rich information about organizations. In this paper, we develop three perspectives on websites from an organ...
Source: Research in Organizational Behavior - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Overconfidence at work: Does overconfidence survive the checks and balances of organizational life?
Publication date: 2016Source: Research in Organizational Behavior, Volume 36Author(s): Nathan L. Meikle, Elizabeth R. Tenney, Don A. MooreAbstractThis review considers the role of overconfidence in organizational life, focusing on ways in which individual-level overconfidence manifests in organizations. The research reviewed offers a pessimistic assessment of the efficacy of either debiasing tools or organizational correctives, and identifies some important ways in which organizational dynamics are likely to exacerbate overconfidence among individuals. The organizational consequences of overconfidence can be substantial, e...
Source: Research in Organizational Behavior - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Transactive Goal Dynamics Theory: A relational goals perspective on work teams and leadership
This article discusses novel implications of the theory for the understanding of organizational teams and team leadership, and constraints on relational dynamics within organizational contexts. (Source: Research in Organizational Behavior)
Source: Research in Organizational Behavior - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The dynamic componential model of creativity and innovation in organizations: Making progress, making meaning
Publication date: 2016Source: Research in Organizational Behavior, Volume 36Author(s): Teresa M. Amabile, Michael G. PrattAbstractLeveraging insights gained through a burgeoning research literature over the past 28 years, this paper presents a significant revision of the model of creativity and innovation in organizations published in Research in Organizational Behavior in 1988. This update focuses primarily on the individual-level psychological processes implicated in creativity that have been illuminated by recent research, and highlights organizational work environment influences on those processes. We revisit basic ass...
Source: Research in Organizational Behavior - July 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research