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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 5, 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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)
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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...
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Where is context? Advancing status research with a contextual value perspective
Publication date: 2016Source: Research in Organizational Behavior, Volume 36Author(s): Huisi(Jessica) Li, Ya-Ru Chen, Steven L. BladerAbstractMost of the numerous studies on social status over the last decade have focused on how individual characteristics influence status attainment and effects, while much less research has examined the role of context in status dynamics. Given how important and pervasive contextual values are in all types of status hierarchies and all aspects of social life, studies on contextual influences are crucial. In order to spur more research on this critical factor, we review existing theories an...
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Paradigm lost: Reinvigorating the study of organizational culture
Publication date: 2016Source: Research in Organizational Behavior, Volume 36Author(s): Jennifer A. Chatman, Charles A. O’ReillyAbstractIn spite of the importance of organizational culture, scholarly advances in our understanding of the construct appear to have stagnated. We review the state of culture research and argue that the ongoing academic debates about what culture is and how to study it have resulted in a lack of unity and precision in defining and measuring culture. This ambiguity has constrained progress in both developing a coherent theory of organizational culture and accreting replicable and valid findings. ...
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Reflexivity: The role of embedded social position and entrepreneurial social skill in processes of field level change
Publication date: 2016Source: Research in Organizational Behavior, Volume 36Author(s): Roy Suddaby, Thierry Viale, Yves GendronAbstractWe examine the micro-foundations of field-level organizational change by analyzing the role of social skill and social position in individuals. Our core argument is that differences in an individual's social skill and in their social position produce different degrees of reflexivity or awareness of existing social arrangements. We demonstrate how the interaction of social skill and social position produce distinct types or categories of reflexivity, each of which contributes to institutiona...
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Publication date: 2017Source: Research in Organizational Behavior, Volume 37Author(s): (Source: Research in Organizational Behavior)
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The energizing nature of work engagement: Toward a new need-based theory of work motivation
We present theory suggesting that experiences at work that meet employees’ expectations of need fulfillment drive work engagement. Employees have needs (e.g., a desire to be authentic) and they also have expectations for how their job or their organization will fulfill them. We argue that experiences at work that confirm employees’ need fulfillment expectations yield a positive emotional state that is energizing, and that this energy is manifested in employees’ behaviors at work. Our theorizing draws on a review of the work engagement literature, in which we identify three core characteristics of work engagement: (a)...
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Organizational identification and workplace behavior: More than meets the eye
Publication date: 2017Source: Research in Organizational Behavior, Volume 37Author(s): Steven L. Blader, Shefali Patil, Dominic J. PackerAbstractOrganizational identification is a theoretically profound and practically important construct. It fundamentally transforms the relationship between employees and their work organizations, because highly identified employees integrate their organizational memberships with their sense of who they are. This transformation enhances highly identified employees’ work performance and contributions to the organization. However, despite considerable research on the benefits of organizati...
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