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Organizational identification and workplace behavior: More than meets the eye
Publication date: Available online 20 October 2017 Source:Research in Organizational Behavior Author(s): Steven L. Blader, Shefali Patil, Dominic J. Packer Organizational 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 benefi...
Source: Research in Organizational Behavior - October 21, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Where did “Tex-Mex” come from? The divisive emergence of a social category
Publication date: Available online 18 October 2017 Source:Research in Organizational Behavior Author(s): Dennis Ray Wheaton, Glenn R. Carroll Research on social categories has become one of the more active lines of research on organizations. Much of this research presumes the pre-existence of at least the “seed” of the category and then proceeds to study and explain how the category developed and became institutionalized. By contrast, this study joins several recent others in attempting to identify and explain why a previously non-existent social category emerged in the first place. Empirically, we examine the emer...
Source: Research in Organizational Behavior - October 19, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

A Saul Alinsky primer for the 21st century: The roles of cultural competence and cultural brokerage in fostering mobilization in support of change
Publication date: Available online 14 October 2017 Source:Research in Organizational Behavior Author(s): Simona Giorgi, Jean M. Bartunek, Brayden G. King How can a proponent of change mobilize groups and organizations in support of a common project? Building on an extensive review of social movement theorizing and action, we argue that shared interests, network connections, the availability of resources, and the emergence of political, market and corporate opportunities (the standard topics discussed in extant literature) may be necessary, but are often insufficient for spurring mobilization. Conversely, cultural fact...
Source: Research in Organizational Behavior - October 14, 2017 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 - November 25, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Overconfidence at work: Does overconfidence survive the checks and balances of organizational life?
Publication date: Available online 23 November 2016 Source:Research in Organizational Behavior Author(s): Nathan L. Meikle, Elizabeth R. Tenney, Don A. Moore This 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 ...
Source: Research in Organizational Behavior - November 22, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Paradigm lost: Reinvigorating the study of organizational culture
Publication date: Available online 21 November 2016 Source:Research in Organizational Behavior Author(s): Jennifer A. Chatman, Charles A. O’Reilly In 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 ...
Source: Research in Organizational Behavior - November 21, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Betwixt and between identities: Liminal experience in contemporary careers
Publication date: Available online 19 November 2016 Source:Research in Organizational Behavior Author(s): Herminia Ibarra, Otilia Obodaru Liminality, 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 bet...
Source: Research in Organizational Behavior - November 19, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Emotional division-of-labor: A theoretical account
Publication date: Available online 17 November 2016 Source:Research in Organizational Behavior Author(s): Hillary Anger Elfenbein Division-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 ...
Source: Research in Organizational Behavior - November 17, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The dynamic componential model of creativity and innovation in organizations: Making progress, making meaning
Publication date: Available online 17 November 2016 Source:Research in Organizational Behavior Author(s): Teresa M. Amabile, Michael G. Pratt Leveraging 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 r...
Source: Research in Organizational Behavior - November 17, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Does positivity enhance work performance?: Why, when, and what we don ’t know
Publication date: Available online 10 November 2016 Source:Research in Organizational Behavior Author(s): Elizabeth R. Tenney, Jared M. Poole, Ed Diener There 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 perfor...
Source: Research in Organizational Behavior - November 10, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Where is context? Advancing status research with a contextual value perspective
Publication date: Available online 9 November 2016 Source:Research in Organizational Behavior Author(s): Huisi(Jessica) Li, Ya-Ru Chen, Steven L. Blader Most 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 exis...
Source: Research in Organizational Behavior - November 9, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Routines and transactive memory systems: Creating, coordinating, retaining, and transferring knowledge in organizations
Publication date: Available online 5 November 2016 Source:Research in Organizational Behavior Author(s): Linda Argote, Jerry M. Guo This 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, ...
Source: Research in Organizational Behavior - November 5, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

A dynamic and cyclical model of bounded ethicality
Publication date: Available online 30 July 2016 Source:Research in Organizational Behavior Author(s): Dolly Chugh, Mary C. Kern We 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 phenome...
Source: Research in Organizational Behavior - July 30, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Click and mortar: Organizations on the web
Publication date: Available online 18 July 2016 Source:Research in Organizational Behavior Author(s): Walter W. Powell, Aaron Horvath, Christof Brandtner The 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 webs...
Source: Research in Organizational Behavior - July 17, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Reflexivity: The role of embedded social position and entrepreneurial social skill in processes of field level change
Publication date: Available online 28 February 2016 Source:Research in Organizational Behavior Author(s): Roy Suddaby, Thierry Viale, Yves Gendron We 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 contr...
Source: Research in Organizational Behavior - February 29, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research