{"title":"Exploring the necessary roles of basic psychological needs at work: A necessary condition analysis","authors":"Haien Ding, Bård Kuvaas","doi":"10.1111/joop.70012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.70012","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Self-determination theory (SDT) postulates that all humans have basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness. SDT scholars employ a necessity logic to define and interpret the roles of psychological need satisfaction for optimal human development. However, traditional regression techniques, often applied to test hypotheses derived from SDT, are unsuitable for testing necessity statements. To achieve a theory-method alignment, we employed necessary condition analysis (NCA) to examine whether basic psychological needs at work are necessary for employees' intrinsic motivation, identified regulation, life satisfaction, and vigour at work. Study 1's cross-sectional data (<i>N</i> = 550; Germany) and Study 2's time-lagged data (<i>N</i> = 417; UK and US) generally support the necessary roles of need satisfaction. Notably, intrinsic motivation and vigour are especially constrained by basic psychological need satisfaction. This research advances SDT by providing more precise accounts of the theory from a necessity-oriented lens. We also highlight the importance of management practices that can satisfy employees' basic psychological needs at work.</p>","PeriodicalId":48330,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology","volume":"98 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143111314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joseph A. Schmidt, Joshua S. Bourdage, Eden-Raye Lukacik, Patrick D. Dunlop
{"title":"An investigation of applicant impression management profiles over time","authors":"Joseph A. Schmidt, Joshua S. Bourdage, Eden-Raye Lukacik, Patrick D. Dunlop","doi":"10.1111/joop.70009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.70009","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Research on applicant impression management (IM) has primarily been conducted in the context of interviews and personality assessments. A gap remains in understanding how applicants manage impressions on self-report skill and biodata assessments, which are sometimes incorporated in the early stages of ‘skill-based’ hiring processes. Moreover, there is limited research about IM behaviour over time. We present an exploratory study that identifies profiles of responses to self-report skill inventories over time in a sample of 743 real-world job applicants. The results identify four different longitudinal response profiles throughout the job search, indicating that individual differences influence how (or if) applicants manage impressions over time. Implications for theory and practice are discussed, including how employers can identify applicant IM by examining response patterns over time.</p>","PeriodicalId":48330,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology","volume":"98 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joop.70009","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143120835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The challenge of managing and retaining risks: How a paradox perspective reduces harm, realizes opportunities and enriches performance","authors":"Emma Soane","doi":"10.1111/joop.70011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.70011","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Managers in many kinds of organizations encounter risks in their daily work. A key challenge involves finding ways to manage risks and prevent harm to individuals or organizations, while retaining risks to realize opportunities. These pressures create a tension between risk management and risk retention that prevails in many sectors and is especially consequential in organizations where failures to address it may be fatal. I use inductive analysis to explore qualitative data from 72 television production company managers whose work has potential for trauma, injury and death as well as success. I find the tension between risk management and risk retention can be understood in relation to perceptions and goals. I contribute to theorizing about organizational paradox by showing how perceptions of the tension differ at the individual level. Some managers perceive the tension as a trade-off, focus on risk management and emphasize safety goals. Other managers perceive the tension as a paradox and emphasize wider performance goals that encompass safety and risk. These managers use their agency to foster empowerment and creativity. Doing so enhances to both risk management and risk retention, creating a dynamic equilibrium that reduces harm, realizes opportunities and enriches performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":48330,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology","volume":"98 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joop.70011","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143119554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nicola Power, Richard Philpot, Mark Levine, Jennifer Alcock
{"title":"Bridging the Principle-Implementation Gap: Evaluating organizational change to achieve interoperability between the UK Emergency Services","authors":"Nicola Power, Richard Philpot, Mark Levine, Jennifer Alcock","doi":"10.1111/joop.70010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.70010","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Improving inter-agency working across organizations is an important goal across public and private sectors. The UK Emergency Services have spent a decade implementing organizational change to improve interoperability between the Police, Fire and Ambulance Services. JESIP—the group tasked with realising this change—have faced criticism. We evaluated JESIP's efforts by interviewing expert commanders, finding participants supported the principle of change, but issues impeded its implementation. We developed the Principle-Implementation Change Framework for Interoperability (PICI) to describe the gap between change principles and change implementation, identifying the macro-systemic, meso-organizational and micro-psychological processes between them. Key obstacles to implementation included macro-level funding issues, incompatible meso-level organizational structures and strained micro-level peer-to-peer relationships. Participants also reflected on the facilitators of change. At the meso-organizational level, JESIP was perceived to have improved inter-team communication and flexibility. At the micro-psychological level participants described enhanced trust, shared identities and the emergence of a new type of interoperability leader. This study highlights the importance of gaining support for the principle of interoperability while addressing implementation challenges posed by the inherent social complexities involved in this change. Change efforts must be monitored over time, considering the macro, meso and micro-level processes that influence the principle-implementation gap.</p>","PeriodicalId":48330,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology","volume":"98 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joop.70010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143118809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Voice for ourselves or myself in times of crisis: When and how crisis-related uncertainty motivates employee voices","authors":"Xiaotian Wang, Jinyun Duan, Yue Xu, Lixiaoyun Shi, Cheng Qian","doi":"10.1111/joop.70007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.70007","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Drawing on fairness heuristic theory, we propose that organizational justice serves as a boundary condition determining how employees respond to perceived uncertainty in times of organizational crisis with different types of proactive voice (i.e. prosocial or self-interested). We conducted a three-wave survey study to test our hypotheses with a sample of 401 employee-supervisor dyads during the COVID-19 period. Results demonstrated the employee crisis-related uncertainty perception's positive indirect effect on employee prosocial voice via prosocial motive when organizational justice was higher, and its positive indirect effect on employee self-interested voice via self-interested motive when organizational justice was lower. We then discussed our implications for organizational crisis and employee voice literature.</p>","PeriodicalId":48330,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology","volume":"98 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143117271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A multilevel argument-based approach to validation and interpretation of safety climate scores","authors":"Andrea Bazzoli, Brian F. French","doi":"10.1111/joop.70008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.70008","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We introduce Kane's Interpretation Use Argument approach to establishing a measure's validity to organizational scientists and extend it to multilevel constructs. First, we review five types of inferences (i.e., domain description, scoring, generalization, extrapolation and implication) that could be targeted by applied psychologists and management scholars, enumerate the types of analyses that fall under each of the inferences and describe how they help provide a clearer overview to support score use. We apply this framework to organize evidence related to a short and theory-driven scale that measures safety climate by developing six potential factor structures for safety climate scores, along with their meaning and interpretations, selecting items from the SOPS survey and analysing data from the 2021 and 2022 SOPS datasets, two large government surveys from the health care industry (<i>N</i> = 77,674 and 183,573, respectively) that feature a nested data structure on three levels. A shared construct model was the model that received the most empirical support. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of measuring safety climate using shared construct models, the limitations of the SOPS survey, and we trace a map for future efforts to constructing a validity argument.</p>","PeriodicalId":48330,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology","volume":"98 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143117232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kyriaki Fousiani, Sylvia Xu, Jan-Willem van Prooijen
{"title":"Leaders' power construal influences malevolent creativity: The mediating role of organizational conspiracy beliefs","authors":"Kyriaki Fousiani, Sylvia Xu, Jan-Willem van Prooijen","doi":"10.1111/joop.70005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.70005","url":null,"abstract":"<p>How employees perceive their leaders' power can influence their view and treatment of organizations. This study examines how employees' perceptions of their leaders' power construal—primarily as responsibility (PaR) or primarily as opportunity (PaO)—influence employee malevolent creativity towards the organization, with organizational conspiracy beliefs mediating this relationship. We hypothesized that when leaders' power is perceived primarily as responsibility, it diminishes employee endorsement of conspiracy beliefs and, in turn, reduces malevolent creativity. Conversely, perceiving leaders' power mainly as opportunity was expected to amplify conspiracy beliefs and subsequently malevolent creativity. Study 1, a three-wave study among employees, showed that increased PaO was positively related to employee malevolent creativity through increased organizational conspiracy beliefs. Moreover, PaR was negatively related to malevolent creativity through organizational conspiracy beliefs. Study 2 (preregistered) experimentally tested these relationships and provided support for all hypotheses. Study 3 (also preregistered) manipulated exposure to organizational conspiracy theories (the mediator) to address the ‘measurement-of-mediation’ issue and found that conspiracy theories increase malevolent creativity. This study demonstrates the adverse consequences of leader's power construal as opportunity through employee's organizational conspiracy beliefs.</p>","PeriodicalId":48330,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology","volume":"98 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joop.70005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143117230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anja I. Lehmann, Philipp Kerksieck, Georg F. Bauer
{"title":"Long-term development in job crafting in employees with and without mental health issues during COVID-19: The role of job resources","authors":"Anja I. Lehmann, Philipp Kerksieck, Georg F. Bauer","doi":"10.1111/joop.70002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.70002","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The aim of this study was to investigate long-term development in job crafting during the COVID-19 pandemic among employees with and without mental health issues (MHI). Furthermore, this study aimed to explore the role of job resources regarding these changes. We have analysed longitudinal panel data of six waves between 2019 (applied as pre-pandemic baseline) and 2022 from employees in Switzerland, Germany and Austria. Hierarchical linear modelling showed change differences in job crafting: employees with MHI experienced a higher decrease in job crafting during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with employees without MHI. When investigating the specific crafting dimensions, we found that there was a group difference only for crafting for structural resources, but not for crafting for social resources. Moreover, job resources buffered the decrease in job crafting among employees with MHI. Particularly, social support buffered the decrease in crafting for social resources and role clarity buffered the decrease in crafting for structural resources. These results suggest that in times of crisis, strengthening job resources can help employees with MHI maintain their job crafting behaviour.</p>","PeriodicalId":48330,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology","volume":"98 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143117231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Learning processes as mediators of the impact of workplace coaching interventions on goal attainment","authors":"Conny H. Antoni, Alexandra Tatar","doi":"10.1111/joop.70004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.70004","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study contributes to research on how workplace coaching works by examining learning processes as a mediating mechanism of the impact of problem-specific interventions on goal attainment. This has rarely been investigated. Fifty-five coach–coachee dyads with 51 coaches and 55 coachees participated in the study. Workplace coaching lasted seven to eight coaching sessions in average. Coaches and coachees gave ratings in each session. We analysed this data (NLevel2 = 55, NLevel1 = 335–407) using longitudinal multilevel structural equation modelling accounting for the nested data structure. As expected, coachees' perceived goal attainment increased throughout the coaching process. The results of the study also revealed the mediating role of learning processes in the impact of problem-specific interventions, specifically clarification of meaning and mastery/coping, and, but to a lesser extent, implementation actuation, on goal attainment in coaching. Data for all hypothesised models showed a good or acceptable model fit. In contrast, the model fit was poor, when we explored differential mediation effects, which supported only single-loop learning as a mediator. These results underscore the importance of stimulating learning processes through specific interventions to improve the effectiveness of workplace coaching.</p>","PeriodicalId":48330,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology","volume":"98 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joop.70004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143111478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jun Zhao, Ziguang Chen, Wing Lam, Yuping Xie, Zhiqiang Liu, Lirong Long
{"title":"Bad behaviours because of a dead-end job? Effects of career plateau on counterproductive work behaviours","authors":"Jun Zhao, Ziguang Chen, Wing Lam, Yuping Xie, Zhiqiang Liu, Lirong Long","doi":"10.1111/joop.70003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.70003","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Career advancement offers employee motivation, but what happens when an upward path reaches a plateau? With a three-wave survey of 244 members of 58 work teams, the current study explores how and when career plateaus influence counterproductive work behaviours (CWBs), in accordance with negative reciprocity theory. The results show that at the individual level, individual job content plateaus relate positively to individual CWBs, through individual work alienation; individual task crafting weakens this mediating effect. At the team level, the team hierarchical plateaus relate positively to team CWBs through team work alienation, and team participation in decision-making weakens this mediating effect. This multi-level perspective establishes both theoretical contributions and practical implications.</p>","PeriodicalId":48330,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology","volume":"98 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143121152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}