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Making soft skills ‘stick’: a systematic scoping review and integrated training transfer framework grounded in behavioural science (2024)
Journal Article
Hamzah, H. A., Marcinko, A. J., Stephens, B., & Weick, M. (in press). Making soft skills ‘stick’: a systematic scoping review and integrated training transfer framework grounded in behavioural science. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/1359432x.2024.2376909

Soft skills training often does not yield the desired behaviour changes at work – a phenomenon known as the soft skills transfer problem. Meanwhile, behavioural science interventions have proven successful in changing behaviours in various contexts.... Read More about Making soft skills ‘stick’: a systematic scoping review and integrated training transfer framework grounded in behavioural science.

Building bonds: A pre-registered secondary data analysis examining linear and curvilinear relations between socio-economic status and communal attitudes (2022)
Journal Article
Weick, M., Couturier, L., Vasiljevic, M., Ross, P., Cory, C., Crisp, R., …Van de Vyver, J. (2022). Building bonds: A pre-registered secondary data analysis examining linear and curvilinear relations between socio-economic status and communal attitudes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 102, Article 104353. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2022.104353

A large body of research points to differences in the communal orientation of people from a lower and higher socio-economic status (SES) background. However, direct evidence for differences in communal attitudes remains scant. In this pre-registered... Read More about Building bonds: A pre-registered secondary data analysis examining linear and curvilinear relations between socio-economic status and communal attitudes.

Employee reactions to positive action policies in the United Kingdom: Does the organization’s justification matter? (2021)
Journal Article
Marcinko, A., & Taylor, C. (2021). Employee reactions to positive action policies in the United Kingdom: Does the organization’s justification matter?. Journal of Economic Psychology, 87, Article 102453. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2021.102453

Affirmative action remains a contentious topic in both research and practice. While advocates suggest that such action is necessary to overcome demographic imbalances in the labor market, some research shows that these policies can prompt undesirable... Read More about Employee reactions to positive action policies in the United Kingdom: Does the organization’s justification matter?.

Diversity As I Say, Not As I Do: Organizational Authenticity and Diversity Management Effectiveness (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Marcinko, A. (2020). Diversity As I Say, Not As I Do: Organizational Authenticity and Diversity Management Effectiveness. In G. Atinc (Ed.), . https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2020.189

This research examined how a misalignment between an organization’s espoused values and its realized practices regarding diversity affected employees’ affective commitment, organizational identification, and turnover intentions. Further, it investiga... Read More about Diversity As I Say, Not As I Do: Organizational Authenticity and Diversity Management Effectiveness.