All Outputs (23)

The "double-edged sword" effects of career support mentoring on newcomer turnover: How and when it helps or hurts. (2023)
Journal Article
Deng, H., Guan, Y., Zhou, X., Li, Y., Cai, D., Li, N., & Liu, B. (2023). The "double-edged sword" effects of career support mentoring on newcomer turnover: How and when it helps or hurts. Journal of Applied Psychology, 109(7), 1094-1114. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0001143

Research on mentoring programs has portrayed them almost exclusively beneficial for newcomer retention. Drawing from the social cognitive model of career management and the boundaryless career perspective, we depart from this predominant view and exa... Read More about The "double-edged sword" effects of career support mentoring on newcomer turnover: How and when it helps or hurts..

Distressed yet bonded: A longitudinal investigation of the COVID-19 pandemic’s silver lining effects on life satisfaction. (2023)
Journal Article
Guan, Y., Jiang, D., Wu, C., Deng, H., Su, S., Buchtel, E. E., & Chen, S. X. (2023). Distressed yet bonded: A longitudinal investigation of the COVID-19 pandemic’s silver lining effects on life satisfaction. American Psychologist, 79(2), 268–284. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001188

It is a common understanding that the 2019 coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) significantly
harmed mental health. However, findings on changes in overall life satisfaction have been
mixed and inconclusive. To address this puzzling phenomenon, we dra... Read More about Distressed yet bonded: A longitudinal investigation of the COVID-19 pandemic’s silver lining effects on life satisfaction..

Serving the Cause When My Organization Does Not: A Self-affirmation Model of Employees’ Compensatory Responses to Ideological Contract Breach (2022)
Journal Article
Deng, H., Coyle-Shapiro, J., Zhu, Y., & Wu, C.-H. (2023). Serving the Cause When My Organization Does Not: A Self-affirmation Model of Employees’ Compensatory Responses to Ideological Contract Breach. Personnel Psychology, 76(4), 1161-1186. https://doi.org/10.1111/peps.12546

Transactional and relational contract breach occur when organizations fail to deliver on promised personal benefits for employees and are associated with negative behaviors reciprocating such mistreatment. However, recent research suggests that ideol... Read More about Serving the Cause When My Organization Does Not: A Self-affirmation Model of Employees’ Compensatory Responses to Ideological Contract Breach.

Why and when job insecurity hinders employees’ taking charge behavior: The role of flexibility and work-based self-esteem (2022)
Journal Article
Lyu, Y., Wu, C.-H., Kwan, H. K., Lee, C., & Deng, H. (2023). Why and when job insecurity hinders employees’ taking charge behavior: The role of flexibility and work-based self-esteem. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 44(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831X22110085

Job insecurity is negatively associated with employees’ extra-role behavior. Studies of this negative impact often use a social exchange or stress–strain perspective to explain how job insecurity impairs employees’ extra-role behavior. This study off... Read More about Why and when job insecurity hinders employees’ taking charge behavior: The role of flexibility and work-based self-esteem.

Fast or Slow: How Temporal Work Design Shapes Experienced Passage of Time and Job Performance (2021)
Journal Article
Zhao, H., Deng, H., Chen, R., Parker, S., & Zhang, W. (2022). Fast or Slow: How Temporal Work Design Shapes Experienced Passage of Time and Job Performance. Academy of Management Journal, 65(6), 2014-2033. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2019.1110

Experienced passage of time, the extent to which employees perceive the passage of work time as being fast or slow, is a fundamental aspect of work experience. We identify two novel temporal work design characteristics that can speed up employees’ ex... Read More about Fast or Slow: How Temporal Work Design Shapes Experienced Passage of Time and Job Performance.

Theorizing person-environment fit in a changing career world: Interdisciplinary integration and future directions (2021)
Journal Article
Guan, Y., Deng, H., Fan, L., & Zhou, X. (2021). Theorizing person-environment fit in a changing career world: Interdisciplinary integration and future directions. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 126, Article 103557. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2021.103557

This article is part of the 50th anniversary issue of the Journal of Vocational Behavior (JVB), with a focus on Person-environment (P-E) fit. P-E fit has been a central research area in vocational and organizational psychology. With a focus on highly... Read More about Theorizing person-environment fit in a changing career world: Interdisciplinary integration and future directions.

My fault or yours? leaders’ dual reactions to abusive supervision via rumination depend on their independent self‐construal (2020)
Journal Article
Deng, H., Lam, C. K., Guan, Y., & Wang, M. (2021). My fault or yours? leaders’ dual reactions to abusive supervision via rumination depend on their independent self‐construal. Personnel Psychology, 74(4), 773-798. https://doi.org/10.1111/peps.12430

In this research, we propose a novel goal‐failure perspective based on cognitive theories of rumination to examine how leaders react to their own abusive supervision in distinct ways. Findings from two multi‐wave, multisource field studies conducted... Read More about My fault or yours? leaders’ dual reactions to abusive supervision via rumination depend on their independent self‐construal.

Supervisor-Directed Emotional Labor as Upward Influence: An Emotions-as-Social-Information Perspective (2020)
Journal Article
Deng, H., Walter, F., & Guan, Y. (2020). Supervisor-Directed Emotional Labor as Upward Influence: An Emotions-as-Social-Information Perspective. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 41(4), 384-402. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2424

To access organizational resources, subordinates often strive to influence supervisors' impressions. Moreover, subordinates' interactions with supervisors are known to be ripe with emotions. Nevertheless, research on upward impression management has... Read More about Supervisor-Directed Emotional Labor as Upward Influence: An Emotions-as-Social-Information Perspective.

Beyond Reciprocity: A Conservation of Resources View on the Effects of Psychological Contract Violation on Third Parties (2017)
Journal Article
Deng, H., Coyle-Shapiro, J., & Yang, Q. (2018). Beyond Reciprocity: A Conservation of Resources View on the Effects of Psychological Contract Violation on Third Parties. Journal of Applied Psychology, 103(5), 561-577. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0000272

Building on conservation of resources theory, we cast resource depletion as a novel explanatory mechanism to explain why employees’ experience of psychological contract violation results in harm to third parties outside the employee-organization exch... Read More about Beyond Reciprocity: A Conservation of Resources View on the Effects of Psychological Contract Violation on Third Parties.

Slacking Off in Comfort: A Dual-Pathway Model for Psychological Safety Climate (2017)
Journal Article
Deng, H., Leung, K., Lam, C., & Huang, X. (2019). Slacking Off in Comfort: A Dual-Pathway Model for Psychological Safety Climate. Journal of Management, 45(3), 1114-1144. https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206317693083

Research on psychological safety climate has primarily focused on its salutary effects on group risk-taking behaviors. We developed a group-level dual-pathway model in which psychological safety climate also exerts a simultaneous negative effect on r... Read More about Slacking Off in Comfort: A Dual-Pathway Model for Psychological Safety Climate.

A Relational Model of Perceived Overqualification: The Moderating Role of Interpersonal Influence on Social Acceptance (2016)
Journal Article
Deng, H., Guan, Y., Wu, C., Erdogan, B., Bauer, T., & Yao, X. (2018). A Relational Model of Perceived Overqualification: The Moderating Role of Interpersonal Influence on Social Acceptance. Journal of Management, 44(8), 3288-3310. https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206316668237

Theories of perceived overqualification have tended to focus on employees’ job-related responses to account for effects on performance. We offer an alternative perspective and theorize that perceived overqualification could influence work performance... Read More about A Relational Model of Perceived Overqualification: The Moderating Role of Interpersonal Influence on Social Acceptance.

Is Perceived Creativity-reward Contingency Good for Creativity? The Role of Challenge and Threat Appraisals (2016)
Journal Article
Li, F., Deng, H., & Leung, K. (2017). Is Perceived Creativity-reward Contingency Good for Creativity? The Role of Challenge and Threat Appraisals. Human Resource Management, 56(4), 693-709. https://doi.org/10.1002/hrm.21795

To address the complex effect of perceived reward for creativity on creative performance, we examined the role of cognitive appraisal as an individual difference variable. An individual's appraisal of reward for creativity, including challenge apprai... Read More about Is Perceived Creativity-reward Contingency Good for Creativity? The Role of Challenge and Threat Appraisals.

Spillover Effects of Emotional Labor in Customer Service Encounters toward Coworker Harming: A Resource Depletion Perspective (2016)
Journal Article
Deng, H., Walter, F., Lam, C., & Zhao, H. (2017). Spillover Effects of Emotional Labor in Customer Service Encounters toward Coworker Harming: A Resource Depletion Perspective. Personnel Psychology, 70(2), 469-502. https://doi.org/10.1111/peps.12156

This research examines how the implications of emotional labor can transfer from customer encounters to coworker interactions using temporally lagged data from a sample of frontline service employees. The results show that surface acting in customer... Read More about Spillover Effects of Emotional Labor in Customer Service Encounters toward Coworker Harming: A Resource Depletion Perspective.

Do people’s world views matter? The why and how (2015)
Journal Article
Chen, S., Lam, B., Wu, W., Ng, J., Buchtel, E., Guan, Y., & Deng, H. (2016). Do people’s world views matter? The why and how. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 110(5), 743-765. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000061

Over the past decades, personality and social psychologists have extensively investigated the role of self-views in individual functioning. Research on world views, however, has been less well studied due to overly specific conceptualizations, and li... Read More about Do people’s world views matter? The why and how.

Depletion from Self-Regulation: A Resource-based Account of the Effect of Value Incongruence (2015)
Journal Article
Deng, H., Wu, C., Leung, K., & Guan, Y. (2016). Depletion from Self-Regulation: A Resource-based Account of the Effect of Value Incongruence. Personnel Psychology, 69(2), 431-465. https://doi.org/10.1111/peps.12107

Value incongruence between employees and organizations has been identified as a negative work condition. An attitude-based account suggests that value incongruence gives rise to negative attitudes toward organizations and thus causes low performance.... Read More about Depletion from Self-Regulation: A Resource-based Account of the Effect of Value Incongruence.

Beyond risk-taking: Effects of psychological safety on prosocial behavior. (2014)
Journal Article
Leung, K., Deng, H., Wang, J., & Zhou, F. (2015). Beyond risk-taking: Effects of psychological safety on prosocial behavior. Group and Organization Management, 40(1), 88-115. https://doi.org/10.1177/1059601114564012

In addition to risk-taking behavior, we propose that psychological safety also promotes prosocial behavior through cooperative goal interdependence. To differentiate these two types of effects, we contrasted the moderating effects of two interpersona... Read More about Beyond risk-taking: Effects of psychological safety on prosocial behavior..

Contingent punishment as a double-edged sword: A dual-pathway model from a sense-making perspective. (2014)
Journal Article
Deng, H., & Leung, K. (2014). Contingent punishment as a double-edged sword: A dual-pathway model from a sense-making perspective. Personnel Psychology, 67(4), 951-980. https://doi.org/10.1111/peps.12074

A sense‐making perspective is adopted to explore how and when contingent punishment is related to job performance. Results from Study 1 support the prediction that contingent punishment is positively related to job performance through affective commi... Read More about Contingent punishment as a double-edged sword: A dual-pathway model from a sense-making perspective..

Challenges of conducting global research (2013)
Book Chapter
Leung, K., Wang, J., & Deng, H. (2014). Challenges of conducting global research. In R. Griffith, L. Thompson, & B. Armon (Eds.), Internationalizing the curriculum in organizational psychology (283-305). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9402-7_13

This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the theoretical and methodological issues confronting cross-cultural and intercultural research. Informative cross-cultural research is based on sound theoretical analysis, and four major theoretical... Read More about Challenges of conducting global research.

Career adaptability, job search self-efficacy and outcomes: A three-wave investigation among Chinese University Graduates. (2013)
Journal Article
Guan, Y., Deng, H., Sun, J., Wang, Y., Cai, Z., Ye, L., …Li, Y. (2013). Career adaptability, job search self-efficacy and outcomes: A three-wave investigation among Chinese University Graduates. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 83(3), 561-570. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2013.09.003

Based on career construction theory, the current research examined the role of career adaptability in Chinese university graduates' job search process (N = 270). Results from a three-wave survey study showed that the four dimension of career adaptabi... Read More about Career adaptability, job search self-efficacy and outcomes: A three-wave investigation among Chinese University Graduates..

Supplementary fit, complementary fit and work-related attitudes: The role of self-construal. (2011)
Journal Article
Guan, Y., Deng, H., Risavy, S., Bond, M., & Li, F. (2011). Supplementary fit, complementary fit and work-related attitudes: The role of self-construal. Applied Psychology, 60(2), 286-310. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1464-0597.2010.00436.x

The current research investigated whether employees' self-construals moderated the effects of supplementary fit and complementary fit on their work-related outcomes (i.e. affective commitment and citizenship behavior). An organisational sample of 317... Read More about Supplementary fit, complementary fit and work-related attitudes: The role of self-construal..