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Fight and flight: a contingency model of third parties’ approach-avoidance reactions to peer abusive supervision
No full textIntegrating deontic justice theory and the approach-avoidance framework, we propose that peer abusive supervision will elicit third parties’ approach-avoidance emotional and behavioral reactions. Drawing upon scope of justice theory, we posit that peer victimization serves as a key contingency in the relationship between peer abusive supervision and third parties’ approach-avoidance emotional reactions as well as having indirect impacts on approach-avoidance behavioral reactions. Based on multi-level and multi-time data, the results showed that peer abusive supervision (above and beyond third parties’ own experience of abusive supervision) elicited third parties’ approach-oriented emotion (i.e., anger) and behaviors (i.e., direct communication with the supervisor and supervisor-directed deviance) as well as avoidance-oriented emotion (i.e., fear) and behavior (i.e., contact avoidance). Peer victimization moderated the effect of peer abusive supervision on third parties’ anger and the indirect effect on third parties’ approach-oriented behaviors via anger such that the indirect effect was attenuated when peer victimization was high rather than low
The cognitive antecedents of go/stop decisions in a failing new product development project
No full textThis study highlights managers’ perception of organizational environment as an important structural determinant of escalation of commitment in a new product development (NPD) setting. We connect escalation behavior literature with behavioral decision-making theory, and argue that managers’ perception of organizational environment as a threat or an opportunity may stimulate them to further continuing the investment in an NPD project in the face of negative consequence. We test our hypotheses in a behavioral decision- making experiment with 200 managers. While prior escalation behavior research focus on project-related information and decision maker’s personal bias, this study focuses on the impact of organizational contexts (e.g., firm performance and business environment). Empirical results show that escalating tendency is increased by managers’ perception of environmental opportunity, critical threat and performance-reducing threat
Third-party reactions to supervisory mistreatment: a multilevel moderated mediation model
No full textIntegrating a relational perspective with recent theoretical development on third parties’ moral emotions, we developed a multilevel moderated mediation model that explained why and how third parties reacted to supervisory mistreatment of their coworkers and what factor at the supervisor-level moderated their different reactions. We tested this model with three-wave survey data collected from a sample of 882 team members and 109 team leaders. The results showed that third parties, who received favorable treatments from the exchange relationship with victimized coworkers, would feel morally guilty for supervisory mistreatment of their coworkers. To alleviate guilt, third parties would react to both the victim and perpetrator. In addition, supervisor’s power distance orientation had opposing cross-level moderation effects, which strengthened the positive influence of moral guilt on victim-target reaction (i.e., coworker aid), whereas weakened the positive effect of moral guilt on perpetrator-target reaction (i.e., report mistreatment to a higher-level authority). Both theoretical and practical implications were discussed
"Workplace Social Support, Adjustment, and Motivation of Chinese Rural Migrant Workers"
No full textUsing data drawn from a cross-organizational sample of 632 Chinese rural migrant workers (CRMWs), the authors examine the relationships between workplace social support and two common measures of worker motivation: turnover intention and work engagement. Taking a context-sensitive approach the authors identify three sources of workplace social support for CRMWs: Laoxiang (native-place fellows) coworkers, local coworkers, and supervisors. Further, drawing on social psychological perspectives the authors propose adjustment, a variable that crosses work and life domains, as a new mechanism through which workplace social support links with worker motivation. Finally, by viewing workplace social support as social capital and applying social network analysis to the institutional and cultural context surrounding CRMWs, the authors hypothesize on the relative importance of different sources of workplace social support to CRMWs’ motivation (in descending order): Laoxiang coworkers, supervisors, and local coworkers. Results of multilevel analysis largely support these hypotheses. The authors discuss theoretical and practical implications of these findings and suggest directions for future research
A meta-analytic review of the consequences of servant leadership : the moderating roles of cultural factors
Full text linkThe past decade has witnessed growing interests in empirically examining the effectiveness of servant leadership in management research. Our study reviews the literature on servant leadership and analyzes the relationship between servant leadership and its outcome variables. Drawing on social exchange theory, this study uses meta-analysis and find that servant leadership is positively related to followers’ job-related outcomes (e.g., psychological empowerment, organizational commitment, service quality), leader-related outcomes (e.g., leader effectiveness), and group-related outcomes (e.g., group service performance). Further, we find that the relationships between servant leadership and its outcomes are moderated by cultural factors (i.e., traditionality, masculinity, individualism, and power distance). Finally, we examine the incremental validity of servant leadership by taking transformational leadership into account and comparing their effects on job performance and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) via leader-member exchange (LMX). Implications for theory and practice are discussed, and an agenda for future research is proposed
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Bringing contribution–receipt (im)balance to team–member exchange research: A moderated mediation model
No full textWhile emerging studies pay much attention to the team–member exchange (TMX) relationship, they have produced mixed findings on TMX consequences. To clarify such inconsistencies, our research highlights the importance of distinguishing TMX contribution from TMX receipt and investigates the influence of TMX contribution–receipt (im)balance. Specifically, drawing upon conservation of resources (COR) theory and the TMX literature, we examine the impacts of TMX contribution–receipt (im)balance on emotional exhaustion and subsequently on silence. We also investigate the moderating role of authoritarian leadership in the aforementioned mediation model. Our pilot study demonstrated sufficient distinction between TMX contribution and TMX receipt scales. Two independent field studies consistently showed that compared with imbalanced situations, TMX contribution–receipt balance was associated with lower emotional exhaustion. In balanced situations, emotional exhaustion was lower when the balance was at a high rather than a low level (Study 1). Regarding imbalanced scenarios, a high contribution–low receipt condition was related to greater emotional exhaustion than a low contribution–high receipt condition (Study 2). Both studies also showed that the indirect effect of TMX contribution–receipt (im)balance on silence through emotional exhaustion was more pronounced when authoritarian leadership was high rather than low
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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