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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. (2022). The Virtue of a Controlling Leadership Style: Authoritarian Leadership, Work Stressors, and Leader Power Distance. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 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.