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"Dark Personality in the Workplace: Introduction to the Special Issue" (2014)
Journal Article
Schyns, B. (2015). "Dark Personality in the Workplace: Introduction to the Special Issue". Applied Psychology, 64(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.12041

This introduction to the Special Issue on Dark Personality in the Workplace outlines the nature of dark personality and why it is relevant in the workplace. In addition, it reviews the articles of the special issue in terms of both their findings and... Read More about "Dark Personality in the Workplace: Introduction to the Special Issue".

Reconsidering the Accuracy of Follower Leadership Ratings (2014)
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Keller Hansbrough, T., Lord, R., & Schyns, B. (2015). Reconsidering the Accuracy of Follower Leadership Ratings. The Leadership Quarterly, 26(2), 220-237. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2014.11.006

Accurate behavioral measurement is essential to developing a science of leadership, yet accurate measurement has remained elusive. The use of follower reports of leader behavior creates challenges given that a large body of basic and applied research... Read More about Reconsidering the Accuracy of Follower Leadership Ratings.

Career-specific parental behaviors, career exploration and career adaptability: A three-wave investigation among Chinese undergraduates. (2014)
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Guan, Y., Wang, F., Liu, H., Ji, Y., Jia, X., Fang, Z., …Li, C. (2015). Career-specific parental behaviors, career exploration and career adaptability: A three-wave investigation among Chinese undergraduates. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 86, 95-103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2014.10.007

The current research examined the effects of career-specific parental behaviors (reported by parents at time 1) on Chinese university students' career exploration (reported by students at time 2) and career adaptability (reported by students at time... Read More about Career-specific parental behaviors, career exploration and career adaptability: A three-wave investigation among Chinese undergraduates..

Self-esteem and proactive personality as predictors of future work self and career adaptability: An examination of mediating and moderating processes. (2014)
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Cai, Z., Guan, Y., Li, H., Shi, W., Guo, K., Liu, Y., …Hua, H. (2015). Self-esteem and proactive personality as predictors of future work self and career adaptability: An examination of mediating and moderating processes. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 86, 86-94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2014.10.004

Basing on career construction theory and self-verification theory, current research examined the mediating and moderating models for the relations among self-esteem, proactive personality, career exploration, future work self and career adaptability.... Read More about Self-esteem and proactive personality as predictors of future work self and career adaptability: An examination of mediating and moderating processes..

Career adaptability, calling and the professional competence of social work students in China: A career construction perspective. (2014)
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Guo, Y., Guan, Y., Yang, X., Xu, J., Zhou, X., She, Z., …Fu, M. (2014). Career adaptability, calling and the professional competence of social work students in China: A career construction perspective. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 85(3), 394-402. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2014.09.001

Based on career construction theory, the current research examined individual and contextual predictors for the professional competence of Chinese undergraduates majoring in social work (N = 270). Results showed that career concern and career curiosi... Read More about Career adaptability, calling and the professional competence of social work students in China: A career construction perspective..

A quantum approach to time and organizational change (2014)
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Lord, R., Dinh, J., & Hoffman, E. (2015). A quantum approach to time and organizational change. Academy of Management Review, 40(2), 263-290. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2013.0273

Prevailing perspectives on time and change are often grounded in underlying assumptions regarding the forward-movement of time and the relative stability of attributes. In combination, these assumptions foster theories of organizational evolution as... Read More about A quantum approach to time and organizational change.

What have we learned that is critical in understanding leadership perceptions and leader performance relations? (2014)
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Lord, R., & Dinh, J. (2014). What have we learned that is critical in understanding leadership perceptions and leader performance relations?. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 7(2), 158-177. https://doi.org/10.1111/iops.12127

In this article, we provide a brief review of the current and past research on leadership perceptions and performance. We then describe four principles that have emerged from many decades of research, which can provide new directions for future leade... Read More about What have we learned that is critical in understanding leadership perceptions and leader performance relations?.

Parents’ music training motivation and children’s music learning achievement: An investigation in the Chinese context. (2014)
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Liu, L., Bond, M., Guan, Y., Cai, Z., Sun, J., Yu, Q., …Wang, Z. (2015). Parents’ music training motivation and children’s music learning achievement: An investigation in the Chinese context. Psychology of Music, 43(5), 661-674. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305735614532703

The current research examined Chinese parents’ motivation regarding music training for their children, and its relationships with their children’s learning outcomes (N = 269). Results of principal component analysis showed that Chinese parents had bo... Read More about Parents’ music training motivation and children’s music learning achievement: An investigation in the Chinese context..

New job market entrants’ future work self, career adaptability and job search outcomes: Examining mediating and moderating models. (2014)
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Guan, Y., Guo, Y., Bond, M., Cai, Z., Zhou, X., Xu, J., …Ye, L. (2014). New job market entrants’ future work self, career adaptability and job search outcomes: Examining mediating and moderating models. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 85(1), 136-145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2014.05.003

Based on career construction theory and the model of proactive motivation, the current research examined the mediating and moderating models for the relations among future work self, career adaptability, job search self-efficacy and employment status... Read More about New job market entrants’ future work self, career adaptability and job search outcomes: Examining mediating and moderating models..

An Image of Who We Might Become: Vision Communication, Possible Selves, and Vision Pursuit (2014)
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Stam, D., Lord, R., van Knippenberg, D., & Wisse, B. (2014). An Image of Who We Might Become: Vision Communication, Possible Selves, and Vision Pursuit. Organization Science, 25(4), 1172-1194. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2013.0891

We propose a model of vision communication that emphasizes the mediating role of follower collective possible selves - that is, self-conception in terms of what the collective (team, organization) which one is a member of may become in the future tha... Read More about An Image of Who We Might Become: Vision Communication, Possible Selves, and Vision Pursuit.

Romance of leadership and motivation to lead. (2014)
Journal Article
Felfe, J., & Schyns, B. (2014). Romance of leadership and motivation to lead. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 29(7), 850-865. https://doi.org/10.1108/jmp-03-2012-0076

Purpose – There is a growing interest in understanding the motivational processes explaining the emergence of leadership. The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between Romance of Leadership (RoL), that is the over-attribution of re... Read More about Romance of leadership and motivation to lead..

The impact of university students’ commitment on in- and extra-role performance (2014)
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Felfe, J., Schyns, B., & Tymon, A. (2014). The impact of university students’ commitment on in- and extra-role performance. Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 6(1), 149-167. https://doi.org/10.1108/jarhe-01-2013-0002

Purpose – Research has shown that employee commitment is an important factor in performance. Research into student commitment in the university context is less common and only few studies explore the different components and foci of commitment. The p... Read More about The impact of university students’ commitment on in- and extra-role performance.