Lisa Dragoni, Christina Hymer, Soohyun Yoon, Jeffery A LePine, Todd Woodruff, Lissa V Young, Huisi Jessica Li
{"title":"Leader ambidexterity in goal orientation and team adaptive performance.","authors":"Lisa Dragoni, Christina Hymer, Soohyun Yoon, Jeffery A LePine, Todd Woodruff, Lissa V Young, Huisi Jessica Li","doi":"10.1037/apl0001405","DOIUrl":"10.1037/apl0001405","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Team goal orientation-that is, team members' desire for learning or performance (or both) in achievement settings-has been treated as a stable team characteristic with benefits and costs that are contingent on the teams' circumstances. From this view, team effectiveness is thought to be a function of a team possessing the \"right\" goal orientation in the \"right\" situation. However, because no single goal orientation is conducive to effective team functioning across the range of complex and changing circumstances that teams may face, a more fluid view of goal orientation may be helpful in understanding how goal orientation in teams may foster team adaptive performance. Specifically, we propose that teams whose work involves complexity and change may adapt more effectively as a result of leader-initiated shifts in goal orientation as circumstances evolve. To examine this possibility, we develop and examine the concept of leader ambidexterity in goal orientation-defined as a leader's capability to switch across different goal orientations in response to various situational demands. Using a scale measure we developed and validated for this research, we explore the role of leader ambidexterity in goal orientation as a predictor of team adaptive performance using field data from 79 teams at a premier U.S. military academy. We found that team adaptive performance was higher in teams whose leaders scored higher on ambidexterity in goal orientation. This effect was robust even when accounting for stable leader and team-level goal orientation variables. We discuss theoretical and practical implications of this work. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":15135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148630591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Project success-failure experiences and leader development: Examining career transitions through role transition theory.","authors":"Yeun Joon Kim,Andreas W Richter","doi":"10.1037/apl0001404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0001404","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on role transition theory, we examine the effects of project success-failure experiences on the development of leader mindsets and subsequent team performance outcomes, comparing different career transition and nontransition periods: (a) the transition from education to work, (b) the transition into a first formal leadership role, and (c) the nontransition period between these transitions. Using a decade-long field study of 132 team leaders in an East Asian fashion design company, we find that project success-failure experiences during the transition from education to work strongly predict the development of leaders' regulatory focus mindsets. Specifically, project success fosters a promotion focus mindset, while project failure fosters a prevention focus mindset. These mindsets, in turn, predict team outcomes: a promotion focus mindset enhances team creativity, while a prevention focus mindset improves routine performance. However, project success-failure experiences during the transition into a first leadership role do not exhibit similar effects. We discuss contributions to the leader development literature. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":15135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Psychology","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148565027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wan Jiang,Xueting Qin,Daan van Knippenberg,Zhigang Song,Bingqian Liang,Linlin Wang,Yingjie Yuan
{"title":"Do family rituals help or hurt? The ripple effect of family rituals on employee change-oriented behaviors.","authors":"Wan Jiang,Xueting Qin,Daan van Knippenberg,Zhigang Song,Bingqian Liang,Linlin Wang,Yingjie Yuan","doi":"10.1037/apl0001410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0001410","url":null,"abstract":"Despite growing evidence that family life spills over into the workplace, little is known about how family rituals relate to employee behaviors at work. Drawing on interaction ritual chains theory, we develop a dual pathway-moderated mediation model linking family rituals to employee change-oriented behaviors. We propose that family rituals are positively associated with employee change-oriented behaviors via the resource pathway (emotional resources and vigor at work) but negatively associated with them via the motivation pathway (family identity salience and family motivation). Additionally, employees' need for social inclusion strengthened both mediation pathways. Results from a multisource, time-lagged survey of 465 employees and 240 supervisors supported our model. We discussed theoretical implications for the literature on family rituals and change-oriented behaviors, as well as practical implications for organizations and managers. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":15135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Psychology","volume":"123 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148565028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Prithviraj Chattopadhyay, Daan van Knippenberg, Elizabeth George
{"title":"Team diversity, status, social identity management strategies, and team performance.","authors":"Prithviraj Chattopadhyay, Daan van Knippenberg, Elizabeth George","doi":"10.1037/apl0001403","DOIUrl":"10.1037/apl0001403","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Relational demography research focuses on how status differences among dissimilar team members influence their interactions. Team diversity research focuses on the performance of diverse teams. We integrate these two bodies of work to change the way in which team diversity is conceptualized by explicitly considering the relative status of members of diverse teams as well as the attributes of the status hierarchy within those teams. Team members' social identity management strategies-their ways of dealing with status differences-affect the likelihood that team processes engender information elaboration, thus affecting team performance. We elucidate why status has an impact on team processes (a) due to the implications of the strategies team members use to gain and maintain status and (b) as a consequence of the proportion of lower and higher status members in the team. In conjunction with explicating our model, we discuss the efficacy of moderators of the relationship between team diversity and performance as well as implications for research on faultlines. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":15135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148520359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yucheng Zhang, Shanshan Zhang, Zijun Ke, Wenrui Cao, Mo Wang, Kaiyang Qin, Han Li
{"title":"Synthesizing research on leadership behaviors: Semantically validating a taxonomy using large language models and examining the nomological network with a second-order meta-analysis.","authors":"Yucheng Zhang, Shanshan Zhang, Zijun Ke, Wenrui Cao, Mo Wang, Kaiyang Qin, Han Li","doi":"10.1037/apl0001402","DOIUrl":"10.1037/apl0001402","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite the expansion of research on leadership behaviors (LBs) over the past decades, this field faces challenges related to construct redundancy, which impedes theoretical integration and empirical accumulation. To address this issue, we conducted two complementary studies to systematically examine a six-category taxonomy of LBs (i.e., task-oriented, relational-oriented, change-oriented, value-based and moral, passive, and destructive LBs, collectively referred to as the TRCVPD taxonomy), which maps diverse LBs onto a unified framework. In Study 1, we compiled a database comprising measurement items from 48 LBs scales and leveraged large language models and subject-matter experts to assess whether measurement items of previously unclassified LBs semantically corresponded to the theoretical definitions of the TRCVPD taxonomy of LBs. Specifically, we were able to semantically match 41 of the 48 LBs to the TRCVPD taxonomy. Based on the findings of Study 1, Study 2 conducted a comprehensive second-order meta-analysis, synthesizing 109 meta-analyses based on more than 6 million participants. In particular, we evaluated the nomological network of the six LBs by meta-analytically estimating their relations with antecedents and outcomes. In addition, we used dominance analyses to further compare the relative importance of each LB category in explaining leadership outcomes. Together, these two studies present integrative findings that offer an overarching theoretical framework and empirical foundation for understanding the taxonomy and nomological structure of LBs. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":15135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148520373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Supplemental Material for Offering Paid Sick and Family Leave Is Not Enough: Leave Supportive Supervisor Behavior Training Improves Policy Use, Health, and Work Outcomes","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/apl0001395.supp","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0001395.supp","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Psychology","volume":"2019 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148475814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Glen E Kreiner,Dane Cannon,Devin J Rapp,Trent A Williams,Jennifer Wiseman
{"title":"Community weaving to address societal grand challenges: The case of mental health destigmatization.","authors":"Glen E Kreiner,Dane Cannon,Devin J Rapp,Trent A Williams,Jennifer Wiseman","doi":"10.1037/apl0001400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0001400","url":null,"abstract":"Addressing society's most pressing problems requires sustained coordination among stakeholders across organizational boundaries. A central dilemma of such grand challenges is how to sustain engagement among actors who hold potentially incommensurate objectives, priorities, and values while pursuing a shared vision of social impact. Yet existing scholarship reveals little about how novel organizing forms are built and maintained throughout grand challenge initiatives and even less about the iterative cycles of interactions among their stakeholders. We examine this dilemma through a 3-year action research study of a multistakeholder initiative focused on eliminating mental health stigma. We draw on participant observation, interviews, and archival data to develop a grounded model of community weaving-an organizing approach that enables sustained engagement among heterogeneous actors under conditions of complexity, uncertainty, and evaluative heterogeneity. Community weaving combines a central coordinating architecture with semiautonomous substructures that support partial alignment around a multivocal shared purpose while enabling distributed, locally meaningful action. Rather than resolving tensions in stakeholder goals, values, and priorities, the initiative sustains participation by recursively reworking persistent tensions as it grows. Our model and theorizing advance research on organizing for social impact by showing how collaboration can be maintained without full convergence or centralized control. In doing so, we shift attention from consensus and governance toward partial alignment, multivocality, and recursive coordination as mechanisms for sustaining collective action in complex social systems. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":15135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Psychology","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148408581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ke Michael Mai,Yupeng Lin,Keyuan Zhang,Rengong Alex Zhang
{"title":"Unveiling the hidden hazards: Exploring the unintended consequences of legal changes on employee injuries.","authors":"Ke Michael Mai,Yupeng Lin,Keyuan Zhang,Rengong Alex Zhang","doi":"10.1037/apl0001387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0001387","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the unintended effects of legal changes in shareholder litigation on employee injuries, revealing substantial consequences for employee welfare when restrictions are placed on shareholder litigation. Using a quasi-natural experiment involving the adoption of universal demand laws, we found that this reform, aimed at improving operational efficiency, is associated with a 28% increase in workplace injuries. This increase coincided with a marked surge in managerial focus on firm growth, without a commensurate increase in attention to safety. The association is stronger in lower income counties, highlighting a potential economic redistribution effect that concerns vulnerable employee groups. We also find that female-led firms exhibit minimal increases in injury rates after the adoption, in contrast to male-led firms, indicating that CEO gender moderates the relationship. These findings highlight how regulatory changes may be associated with unintended consequences for employees through shifts in managerial focus. We discuss the theoretical and policy implications of our findings. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":15135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Psychology","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148408582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andrew B Speer,Takudzwa A Chawota,Cort Rudolph,Amani Qaqish
{"title":"The impact of impression management on writing tendencies: Investigating faking susceptibility of open-ended personality assessments.","authors":"Andrew B Speer,Takudzwa A Chawota,Cort Rudolph,Amani Qaqish","doi":"10.1037/apl0001397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0001397","url":null,"abstract":"Applicant faking on self-report personality measures has long been a concern. One method that might be more resistant to faking is open-ended personality assessments. Guided by a new framework of open-ended faking behavior, we investigated how faking emerges in open-ended personality assessments. Additionally, we examined an alternative form of faking: artificial intelligence (AI)-generated responses. Results showed that elaborate responding (i.e., effortful crafting of narratives, Cohen's d = .29) and selective information management (i.e., promoting positive information while withholding negative information, d = .72) were higher in faked than honest conditions and that individuals with higher trait levels were more capable of producing elaborate responses and providing favorable information under motivated conditions. When faking, scores increased more on Likert self-reports (d¯ = .65) than on open-ended personality scores (d¯ = .26) derived via natural language processing, though when trained to predict human ratings rather than honest Likert scores natural language processing scores were more susceptible to faking (d¯ = .63). Training sample configuration also influenced psychometric properties, such that training on a mixed sample of honest and motivated responses yielded the best results. Finally, AI-generated responses (fully synthetic and human-AI hybrid) received scores that varied considerably across models, though they typically were higher than human scores. However, a customized algorithm accurately differentiated human from AI responses with near-perfect accuracy (across seven large language models and for humans using AI), with only a 1% false positive rate. Collectively, these findings suggest that open-ended personality assessments, when paired with natural language processing scoring, have potential to offer a scalable, more faking-resistant approach to personality assessment. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":15135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Psychology","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148388775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Capitalizing on proactive personality over organizational socialization tactics in newcomer learning: A meta-analytic investigation.","authors":"Xingyu Pang, Yifan Song, Jian Liang, Mo Wang","doi":"10.1037/apl0001351","DOIUrl":"10.1037/apl0001351","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The evolving workplace dynamics make it difficult for organizations to meet the customized learning needs of newcomers through standardized socialization programs. Consequently, attention has shifted toward leveraging newcomer proactivity as another pathway for facilitating newcomer learning. However, it remains unclear whether and when newcomer proactive personality can produce desired learning outcomes as organizational socialization tactics. We conducted a meta-analysis encompassing 85 independent samples (<i>N</i> = 24,293) to directly address this issue. Our findings indicate that proactive personality accounts for additional variance in newcomer learning outcomes beyond organizational socialization tactics. Importantly, the relative effectiveness of newcomer proactive personality compared to organizational socialization tactics is less salient among veteran (vs. neophyte) newcomers and in higher (vs. lower) individualistic cultures. Our findings also show that newcomer proactive behaviors serve as the crucial mechanism linking organizational socialization tactics and newcomer proactive personality to individual learning outcomes. Implications for how to facilitate newcomer learning are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":15135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"901-915"},"PeriodicalIF":6.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146213256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}