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The SAGE Handbook of Leadership (2023)
Book
Schedlitzki, D., Larsson, M., Carroll, B., Bligh, M. C., & Epitropaki, O. (2023). The SAGE Handbook of Leadership. (Second Edition). SAGE Publications

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.

Where does the heart lie? A multistage process model of entrepreneurial passion and role identity management (2022)
Journal Article
Kakarika, M., Biniari, M., Guillén, L., & Mayo, M. (2022). Where does the heart lie? A multistage process model of entrepreneurial passion and role identity management. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 43(9), 1562-1578. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2605

With research on entrepreneurial passion booming, there is an increasing need to understand how and why that passion influences entrepreneurs' performance over time. To address this need, we develop a multistage process model, proposing that entrepre... Read More about Where does the heart lie? A multistage process model of entrepreneurial passion and role identity management.

Is Someone Looking Over My Shoulder? An Investigation into Supervisor Monitoring Variability, Subordinates’ Daily Felt Trust, and Well-being (2023)
Journal Article
Zheng, X. (., Nieberle, K. W., Braun, S., & Schyns, B. (2023). Is Someone Looking Over My Shoulder? An Investigation into Supervisor Monitoring Variability, Subordinates’ Daily Felt Trust, and Well-being. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 44(5), 818-837. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2699

Remote working has become the new norm in organizations. However, little is known about how supervisors’ monitoring affects their relationships with subordinates in remote work settings. Our research aims to enhance the understanding of the daily dyn... Read More about Is Someone Looking Over My Shoulder? An Investigation into Supervisor Monitoring Variability, Subordinates’ Daily Felt Trust, and Well-being.

More effective solutions? Senior managers and non-routine problem solving (2023)
Journal Article
Decreton, B., Tippmann, E., Nell, P. C., & Parker, A. (2023). More effective solutions? Senior managers and non-routine problem solving. Strategic Management Journal, https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.3495

Research Summary Solving non-routine problems—problems for which current organizational, recurrent action patterns do not offer a predetermined, effective solution—can be an important source of value creation. When these problems occur in subsidiarie... Read More about More effective solutions? Senior managers and non-routine problem solving.

What motivates narcissistic individuals to lead? The role of identity across cultures (2023)
Journal Article
Schyns, B., Braun, S., & Xia, Y. E. (2023). What motivates narcissistic individuals to lead? The role of identity across cultures. Personality and Individual Differences, 206, Article 112107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2023.112107

Narcissists are assumed to be highly motivated to lead, but little is known about the underlying reasons or boundary conditions of this motivation. We examine the mediating role of individual level of identity, arguing that this process differs betwe... Read More about What motivates narcissistic individuals to lead? The role of identity across cultures.

Long-term effect of childhood pandemic experience on medical major choice: Evidence from the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak in China (2023)
Journal Article
Chen, Z., Wang, Y., Guan, Y., Guo, M. J., & Xu, R. (2023). Long-term effect of childhood pandemic experience on medical major choice: Evidence from the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak in China. Health Economics, 32(5), 1120-1147. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4659

This study examines the long-term effect of a pandemic on a crucial human capital decision, namely college major choice. Using China’s 2008–2016 major-level National College Entrance Examination (Gaokao) entry grades, we find that the 2003 SARS had a... Read More about Long-term effect of childhood pandemic experience on medical major choice: Evidence from the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak in China.

The Effect of Social Networks, Organizational Coordination Structures, and Knowledge Heterogeneity on Knowledge Transfer and Aggregation (2023)
Journal Article
Ozman, M., & Parker, A. (2023). The Effect of Social Networks, Organizational Coordination Structures, and Knowledge Heterogeneity on Knowledge Transfer and Aggregation. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 33, 249–278. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00191-023-00811-z

Previous research has established the benefits of knowledge for firm competitive advantage. Knowledge does not, however, seamlessly transfer around an organization. Research suggests that the organizations coordination structures, the heterogeneity o... Read More about The Effect of Social Networks, Organizational Coordination Structures, and Knowledge Heterogeneity on Knowledge Transfer and Aggregation.

How objectifiers are granted power in the workplace (2023)
Journal Article
Zhang, B., Wisse, B., & Lord, R. G. (2023). How objectifiers are granted power in the workplace. European Journal of Social Psychology, 53(4), 681-702. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2930

Objectification often has profound negative consequences for its victims, yet we argue that objectification may have positive ancillary implications for the perpetrators. Drawing from system justification theory, we posit that, especially in organiza... Read More about How objectifiers are granted power in the workplace.

Don’t Shoot the Messenger? A Morality- and Gender-Based Model of Reactions to Negative Workplace Gossip (2023)
Journal Article
Kakarika, M., Taghavi, S., & González-Gómez, H. (2024). Don’t Shoot the Messenger? A Morality- and Gender-Based Model of Reactions to Negative Workplace Gossip. Journal of Business Ethics, 189(2), 329-344. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-023-05355-7

We conducted three studies to examine how the recipients of negative workplace gossip judge the gossip sender’s morality and how they respond behaviorally. Study 1 provided experimental evidence that gossip recipients perceive senders as low in moral... Read More about Don’t Shoot the Messenger? A Morality- and Gender-Based Model of Reactions to Negative Workplace Gossip.

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.

Sustaining newcomers' career adaptability: The roles of socialization tactics, job embeddedness and career variety (2023)
Journal Article
Fan, L., Cai, D., Li, Z., Xu, L., Wen, S., Li, F., …Guan, Y. (2023). Sustaining newcomers' career adaptability: The roles of socialization tactics, job embeddedness and career variety. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 96(2), 264-286. https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.12423

In this study, we aim to examine how socialization practices predict newcomers' career adaptability during their organizational transitions. Drawing on career construction theory and conservation of resources theory, we argue that newcomers' job embe... Read More about Sustaining newcomers' career adaptability: The roles of socialization tactics, job embeddedness and career variety.

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. (2022). Serving the Cause When My Organization Does Not: A Self-affirmation Model of Employees’ Compensatory Responses to Ideological Contract Breach. Personnel Psychology, 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.

The Upside of Playing Favorites (2022)
Journal Article
Xu, H. H., Pan, J., & Zheng, X. J. (2022). The Upside of Playing Favorites

While managers should strive to treat their employees fairly, it’s only natural for them to develop stronger relationships with some people than with others. The good news is, new research suggests that this sort of favoritism doesn’t have to be dest... Read More about The Upside of Playing Favorites.

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., 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.