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Anti‐bias training and perceived force climate: Links with prejudiced attitudes in United Kingdom policing (2023)
Journal Article
Legate, N., Weinstein, N., Graham, L., & Plater, M. (2023). Anti‐bias training and perceived force climate: Links with prejudiced attitudes in United Kingdom policing. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 33(4), 929-939. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2682

Anti-bias training has been viewed as the solution to prejudice in organizations, yet the evidence is mixed in real-world settings. Some point to the broader organizational climate that training takes place in as critical, and herein we investigate o... Read More about Anti‐bias training and perceived force climate: Links with prejudiced attitudes in United Kingdom policing.

The Role of Perceived Autonomy-Supportive Communications for Motivating Prejudice Reduction and Avoiding Defiant Backlash Within the Police Force Workplace (2022)
Journal Article
Weinstein, N., Legate, N., Graham, L., Zheng, Y., Plater, M., Al-Khouja, M., & Moller, A. C. (2023). The Role of Perceived Autonomy-Supportive Communications for Motivating Prejudice Reduction and Avoiding Defiant Backlash Within the Police Force Workplace. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 53(5), 443-454. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12953

Workplace prejudice-reduction efforts tend to be short lived at best, and can even arouse defiance, or a desire to oppose requests or rules, in employees. The motivational approach of self-determination theory (SDT) describes how communicating about... Read More about The Role of Perceived Autonomy-Supportive Communications for Motivating Prejudice Reduction and Avoiding Defiant Backlash Within the Police Force Workplace.

The Virtue of a Controlling Leadership Style: Authoritarian Leadership, Work Stressors, and Leader Power Distance (2022)
Journal Article
Chen, L., Huang, X., Sun, J., Zheng, Y., Graham, L., & Jiang, J. (2024). The Virtue of a Controlling Leadership Style: Authoritarian Leadership, Work Stressors, and Leader Power Distance. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 41, 507–547. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10490-022-09860-7

We developed and tested a theoretical model showing that authoritarian leadership has both positive and negative influences on employees’ work performance. We posited that authoritarian leadership may shape both challenge stressors and hindrance stre... Read More about The Virtue of a Controlling Leadership Style: Authoritarian Leadership, Work Stressors, and Leader Power Distance.

The impact of workplace stressors on exhaustion and work engagement in policing (2021)
Journal Article
Lockey, S., Graham, L., Zheng, Y., Hesketh, I., Plater, M., & Gracey, S. (2022). The impact of workplace stressors on exhaustion and work engagement in policing. Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles, 95(1), 190-206. https://doi.org/10.1177/0032258x211016532

This paper uses the challenge-hindrance stressor framework to examine the impact of challenge and hindrance stressors on police officer and staff well-being. Results of two studies conducted in English police forces demonstrate that challenge stresso... Read More about The impact of workplace stressors on exhaustion and work engagement in policing.

Ethical Leadership and Ethical Voice: The Mediating Mechanisms of Value Internalization and Integrity Identity (2021)
Journal Article
Zheng, Y., Epitropaki, O., Graham, L., & Caveney, N. (2022). Ethical Leadership and Ethical Voice: The Mediating Mechanisms of Value Internalization and Integrity Identity. Journal of Management, 48(4), 973-1002. https://doi.org/10.1177/2f01492063211002611

Drawing upon self-concept and social-information processing perspectives, we theorize and test a model linking ethical leadership with ethical voice via ethical value internalization and integrity identity. In two field studies (N = 972 and N = 765,... Read More about Ethical Leadership and Ethical Voice: The Mediating Mechanisms of Value Internalization and Integrity Identity.

Leader and Organizational Behavioral Integrity and Follower Behavioral Outcomes: The Role of Identification Processes (2021)
Journal Article
Ete, Z., Epitropaki, O., Zhou, Q., & Graham, L. (2022). Leader and Organizational Behavioral Integrity and Follower Behavioral Outcomes: The Role of Identification Processes. Journal of Business Ethics, 176(4), 741-760. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-020-04728-6

This paper investigates the concept of behavioral integrity from three important foci in organizational settings: i.e., leader, organization and follower. Drawing from theories of behavioral integrity, social learning and social identity, we examine... Read More about Leader and Organizational Behavioral Integrity and Follower Behavioral Outcomes: The Role of Identification Processes.

The “evil pleasure”: Abusive supervision and third-party observers’ malicious reactions toward victims (2020)
Journal Article
Xu, E., Huang, X., Jia, R., Xu, J., Liu, W., Graham, L., & Snape, E. (2020). The “evil pleasure”: Abusive supervision and third-party observers’ malicious reactions toward victims. Organization Science, 31(5), 1053-1312. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2019.1349

We investigated how abusive supervision influences interactions between third-party observers and abused victims and hypothesized when and why third parties react maliciously toward victims of abusive supervision. Drawing on the theory of rivalry, we... Read More about The “evil pleasure”: Abusive supervision and third-party observers’ malicious reactions toward victims.

Deterrence Effects: The Role of Authoritarian Leadership in Controlling Employee Workplace Deviance (2020)
Journal Article
Zheng, Y., Huang, X., Graham, L., Redman, T., & Hu, S. (2020). Deterrence Effects: The Role of Authoritarian Leadership in Controlling Employee Workplace Deviance. Management and Organization Review, 16(2), 377-404. https://doi.org/10.1017/mor.2019.50

Drawing upon two independent samples from mainland China, we propose and investigate the deterrence function of leadership behavior focused on control. We suggest that controlling leadership, specifically, authoritarian leadership, deters employees’... Read More about Deterrence Effects: The Role of Authoritarian Leadership in Controlling Employee Workplace Deviance.

How autonomy support and ethical value alignment influences attitudes towards diversity in English police (2020)
Journal Article
Al-Khouja, M., Graham, L., Weinstein, N., & Zheng, Y. (2020). How autonomy support and ethical value alignment influences attitudes towards diversity in English police. Journal of Moral Education, 49(3), 365-380. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057240.2019.1697867

Antagonism towards diversity, an attitude reflecting low egalitarian ethical values, has been a topic within policing that has received increasing attention in the last decade. Using two-wave data and applying self-determination theory (Deci & Ryan,... Read More about How autonomy support and ethical value alignment influences attitudes towards diversity in English police.

The Impact of Authoritarian Leadership on Ethical Voice: A Moderated Mediation Model of Felt Uncertainty and Leader Benevolence (2019)
Journal Article
Zheng, Y., Graham, L., Farh, J., & Huang, X. (2021). The Impact of Authoritarian Leadership on Ethical Voice: A Moderated Mediation Model of Felt Uncertainty and Leader Benevolence. Journal of Business Ethics, 170(1), 133-146. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-019-04261-1

In a sample of 522 police officers and staff in an English police force, we investigated the role of authoritarian leadership in reducing the levels of employee ethical voice (i.e., employees discussing and speaking out opinions against unethical iss... Read More about The Impact of Authoritarian Leadership on Ethical Voice: A Moderated Mediation Model of Felt Uncertainty and Leader Benevolence.

The Impact of a Local Community Engagement Intervention on Residents’ Fear of Crime and Perceptions of the Police (2019)
Journal Article
Lockey, S., Graham, L., Redman, T., & Zheng, Y. (2019). The Impact of a Local Community Engagement Intervention on Residents’ Fear of Crime and Perceptions of the Police. International Journal of Police Science and Management, 21(3), 168-180. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461355719856039

Policy-makers have called for community engagement to be made central to police operations in England and Wales, yet little empirical investigation has been undertaken in this context to support its efficacy. This article uses a quasi-experimental re... Read More about The Impact of a Local Community Engagement Intervention on Residents’ Fear of Crime and Perceptions of the Police.

Service Leadership, Work Engagement and Service Performance: The Moderating Role of Leader Skills (2019)
Journal Article
Zheng, Y., Graham, L., Epitropaki, O., & Snape, E. (2020). Service Leadership, Work Engagement and Service Performance: The Moderating Role of Leader Skills. Group and Organization Management, 45(1), 43-74. https://doi.org/10.1177/1059601119851978

By using social learning theory, the Job Demands-Resources model and Idiosyncrasy credit theory, the present study casts additional light on the explanatory mechanisms underlying the effects of service leadership on service performance. We specifical... Read More about Service Leadership, Work Engagement and Service Performance: The Moderating Role of Leader Skills.

Work-to-non-work spillover: the impact of public service motivation and meaningfulness on outcomes in work and personal life domains (2019)
Journal Article
Zheng, Y., Wu, C., & Graham, L. (2020). Work-to-non-work spillover: the impact of public service motivation and meaningfulness on outcomes in work and personal life domains. Public Management Review, 22(4), 578-601. https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2019.1601242

This study examines why, and when, public service motivation (PSM) has spillover effects from employees’ work lives into their personal lives. Drawing on a dual conceptualization of meaningfulness, we propose and examine the relationship of PSM with... Read More about Work-to-non-work spillover: the impact of public service motivation and meaningfulness on outcomes in work and personal life domains.

Estimating public performance bias through an MTMM model : the case of police performance in 26 European countries. (2014)
Journal Article
Barlage, M., van den Born, A., van Witteloostuijn, A., & Graham, L. (2014). Estimating public performance bias through an MTMM model : the case of police performance in 26 European countries. Policy Studies, 35(4), 377-396. https://doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2013.875154

Organisational performance is notoriously difficult to measure in the public sector. More often than not, objective performance measures are difficult to construct. Subjective performance is a popular alternative to, as well as, complement of objecti... Read More about Estimating public performance bias through an MTMM model : the case of police performance in 26 European countries..

Typology of Police Organisations. (2012)
Report
Betteridge, K., Casey, R., Graham, L., & Polos, L. (2012). Typology of Police Organisations. [No known commissioning body]

Description of Best Practices. (2012)
Report
Betteridge, K., Casey, R., Graham, L., & Polos, L. (2012). Description of Best Practices. [No known commissioning body]