Jasmine K. Bhatia, Eyal Karin, Thomas Rigotti, Monique F. Crane
{"title":"The role of leadership on employee mental ill-health through workplace disruption: A systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal research","authors":"Jasmine K. Bhatia, Eyal Karin, Thomas Rigotti, Monique F. Crane","doi":"10.1111/joop.70164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.70164","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As socio-global events more frequently disrupt workplaces, understanding leadership's dynamic and context-sensitive role in shaping employee wellbeing during periods of uncertainty has become increasingly important. Drawing on the Conservation of Resources Theory, this study synthesized current longitudinal evidence on the association between leadership and mental ill-health (i.e. stress, burnout, psychological distress). We systematically reviewed 106 longitudinal studies, and meta-analysed 191 time-lagged effect sizes, to compare direct leadership associations and the moderating role of workplace disruption. Twenty-four studies reported a disruptive workplace context, identified by the novelty, criticality or discontinuity of the event. Meta-analytic results revealed that leadership styles differed in the magnitude of their peak observed association with employee mental ill-health outcomes. <i>Servant Leadership</i> showed the strongest negative association with burnout across all leadership styles, although evidence was mixed across other outcomes. <i>Destructive/Abusive Leadership</i> styles had consistently strong effects across all mental ill-health outcomes. Workplace disruption weakened the negative association of <i>Supportive Leadership</i> and stress, but further amplified the positive association between <i>Autocratic Leadership</i> and psychological distress. Statistical analyses and narrative commentary identified key opportunities to improve future longitudinal leadership research. Organizations can leverage these findings to promote sustainable leadership behaviours that enhance mental health generally and through adversity.</p>","PeriodicalId":48330,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology","volume":"99 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joop.70164","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149259284","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":"Crafting and recrafting the self: Cycles of identity struggle in job crafting","authors":"Danielle A. Tucker, Jane Hendy","doi":"10.1111/joop.70159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.70159","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Job crafting is widely regarded as a proactive approach for enhancing meaning and well-being at work. This study challenges this view by examining the experiences of 24 change managers across six public-sector organizations. Conceptualizing job crafting as identity work, we show that it unfolds as a cyclical process of identity management, through which individuals repeatedly respond to identity ambiguity, conflict and unvalidated self-worth as roles evolve under conditions of change. We identify three recurring identity tensions and three corresponding cycles of identity-driven job crafting that reflect an emotionally charged process of self-preservation in response to misalignment and shifting expectations. Across cycles, both approach- and avoidance-oriented crafting strategies generate unintended identity consequences that shape subsequent responses and redirect crafting over time. We further identify alternative value definitions as a novel, symbolic form of job crafting through which individuals sustain authenticity when behavioural adjustment proves insufficient. By reconceptualizing aspects of job crafting as a cyclical identity process marked by emotional strain, this study advances understanding of the darker side of job crafting beyond behaviour-centred accounts that portray it as uniformly empowering.</p>","PeriodicalId":48330,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology","volume":"99 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joop.70159","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149205591","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 scientist–practitioner divide revisited: From bridging a gap to navigating the layers of a knowledge ecosystem","authors":"Shaun Pichler, Almuth McDowall","doi":"10.1111/joop.70162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.70162","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Discussions about the scientist–practitioner divide have shaped industrial, work and organizational psychology (IWOP), including landmark publications in this journal (<i>Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology 74</i>, 2001, 391–411; <i>Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology 79</i>, 2006, 173–178). Yet, this dyadic metaphor may no longer reflect the complexity of the IWOP knowledge landscape. Drawing on the principles of the divide metaphor, we argue for reconceptualizing IWOP as a knowledge ecosystem, namely a dynamic, multilayered environment in which diverse actors create, translate, contest and apply scientific evidence. We highlight how end-users extend beyond practitioners to include policymakers, regulators, courts, unions, educators and workers. We further distinguish between end-users and end-beneficiaries to illuminate how IWOP knowledge can generate uneven consequences for different recipients. We argue that an ecosystem metaphor enables a more complete and ethically grounded understanding of IWOP knowledge. Finally, we examine how structural forces, such as the prestige trap, can influence what knowledge is produced, rewarded and legitimized.</p>","PeriodicalId":48330,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology","volume":"99 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149146396","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":"The moralization paradox at work: How Supervisor's moral framing depletes subordinates' self-regulatory resources and suppresses proactive problem prevention","authors":"Jianfeng Ma, Shiyao Jiang, Xing Zhou","doi":"10.1111/joop.70160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.70160","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Integrating moral and ethical considerations into work is often presumed to yield a wide range of beneficial outcomes. Yet these benefits may not be unconditional, as prevailing scholarship has largely overlooked the potential costs associated with self-regulatory resource depletion and diminished self-initiated behaviours that are critical for averting future work disruptions. Drawing on ego depletion theory, we theorize that supervisor's work moralization can inadvertently hinder subordinates' proactive problem prevention by elevating their experiences of ego depletion. Furthermore, we posit that subordinates' reflective moral attentiveness intensifies this relationship, such that highly reflective individuals are more susceptible to the depleting effects of supervisor's work moralization, which in turn exacerbates the reduction in their proactive problem prevention. To test these propositions, we conducted two complementary empirical studies: Study 1, an experience sampling investigation, and Study 2, a vignette-based laboratory experiment. Across both studies, the findings robustly supported our hypotheses. This research advances the literature by challenging the predominantly positive narrative of work moralization, illuminating its paradoxical potential to undermine subordinates' proactive behaviours, and providing novel theoretical insight into the boundary conditions and self-regulatory mechanisms shaping the consequences of moral framing in the workplace.</p>","PeriodicalId":48330,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology","volume":"99 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149146398","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":"Reaffirming the validity of unobtrusive personality measures: A comment on Harms et al. (2025) and guidance for the field","authors":"Joseph S. Harrison, Steven Boivie","doi":"10.1111/joop.70161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.70161","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As unobtrusive measures of CEO personality have become more common in organizational research, questions about their validity have grown. Harms et al., Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, (2025) 98, e70052 recently formalized some of these concerns in a meta-analysis, citing higher average intercorrelations and weaker associations with firm performance relative to survey-based measures as evidence of their lack of validity. We argue that these criticisms are overstated, reflecting both a misunderstanding of what unobtrusive measures capture and limitations in the authors' assumptions and meta-analytic approach. Whereas self-report surveys capture executives' self-concepts, existing unobtrusive measures typically assess externally observed or expressed personality. We suggest that relatively higher average intercorrelations are theoretically expected when assessments reflect stylized expressions of CEOs' observed tendencies, and we provide evidence that unobtrusive measures can meaningfully distinguish between traits. We further argue that, given what they represent and their application in large firms, unobtrusive measures likely relate differently to outcomes shaped by external audiences as compared to aggregate financial outcomes. Consistent with this logic, we show substantive differences in the relationships between unobtrusive measures of CEO personality and market performance compared to accounting performance. Our study reaffirms the validity of unobtrusive personality measures and offers guidance for their appropriate evaluation, interpretation and continued refinement.</p>","PeriodicalId":48330,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology","volume":"99 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joop.70161","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149146397","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}
Anca M. Miron, Nyla R. Branscombe, Cristinel Ababei, Adelia C. Ehrlich, Sylvia Peterson, Caura Winters, Daisy Wilson
{"title":"Men as allies at work: Behaviours, motives and outcomes of workplace gender allyship","authors":"Anca M. Miron, Nyla R. Branscombe, Cristinel Ababei, Adelia C. Ehrlich, Sylvia Peterson, Caura Winters, Daisy Wilson","doi":"10.1111/joop.70158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.70158","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Despite growing interest in workplace gender allyship, little is known about how allyship manifests in everyday organizational practice. Understanding workplace gender allyship requires identifying not only <i>what</i> men employees do during their everyday workplace interactions, but also <i>why</i> they do it and what <i>outcomes</i> those behaviours are perceived to have. Using qualitative survey data from open-ended critical incident reports and descriptive frequency analyses, we examined the workplace allyship experiences of 85 working men (45 managers and 40 non-managers). Our analyses revealed a typology of enacted and recommended allyship behaviours encompassing three overarching categories: <i>support behaviours</i> (providing instrumental, emotional and social support and mentoring), <i>social change behaviours</i> (advocacy, promoting organizational change, acting as a social change agent and confronting sexism), and <i>self-education</i>. Although both managers and non-managers were motivated by moral obligation and social justice concerns, managers were more strongly motivated by job-related motives, whereas non-managers more often emphasized empathic concern for women coworkers. Workplace allyship was associated with meaningful benefits for women, whereas participants reported relatively few negative consequences for themselves. These findings provide an empirically grounded framework linking allyship behaviours, motives and outcomes, with implications for employee training and organizational interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":48330,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology","volume":"99 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joop.70158","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149072725","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}
Qiqi Wang, Erich C. Dierdorff, Yiwei Yuan, Zhe Shang, Jun Liu
{"title":"Colleagues' job crafting: How inspiration and anxiety relate to helping and undermining behaviour","authors":"Qiqi Wang, Erich C. Dierdorff, Yiwei Yuan, Zhe Shang, Jun Liu","doi":"10.1111/joop.70154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.70154","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Previous research on job crafting has predominantly focused on an ‘actors' perspective’, failing to comprehensively explore how job crafting relates to others within the work context. Drawing upon the appraisal theory of emotion, this study adopts an ‘others' perspective’ and proposes a dual pathway framework to illustrate both the negative and positive behavioural responses associated with coworker job crafting. We argue that coworker job crafting is associated with observer functional behavioural responses (i.e., more helping and less undermining) and dysfunctional behavioural responses (i.e., less helping and more undermining) through its associations with observer inspiration and anxiety. We also propose that construal level acts as an important boundary condition of these indirect relationships. Results from a three-wave study and an experience sampling study indicated that inspiration mediated the relationship between coworker job crafting and both helping behaviour and social undermining, while anxiety only mediated the relationship between coworker job crafting and social undermining. Construal level further moderated the indirect relationship between coworker job crafting and social undermining via observer anxiety. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":48330,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology","volume":"99 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148942145","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":"The protective role of sleep in tempering the impact of ICT-driven off-hour interruptions on exhaustion at work","authors":"Angela R. Grotto, Rui Sundrup, Maura J. Mills","doi":"10.1111/joop.70152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.70152","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Off-hour work interruptions are prevalent in organizations that expect employee availability during off-hours through information-communication technologies (ICTs). We bring together domain switch theory and threaded cognition theory to argue that ICT availability demands increase off-hour interruptions during periods intended for generating work-relevant resources, resulting in exhaustion at work. We sought to identify how individuals could buffer this threat. While to date the literature has primarily examined sleep disruption as an outcome of ICT use or a means of restoring resources post-stressor exposure, we extend the literature by exploring the protective power of sleep duration as a resource-generating activity employees can leverage in ICT-demanding work environments. Using multilevel data across a five-day workweek from a sample of working adults (level 2: <i>N</i> = 176) with daily off-hour interruption reports (level 1: <i>N</i> = 679), we found that sleep duration reduced the indirect effect of ICT availability demands on exhaustion via off-hour interruptions, while controlling for sleep quality. These findings suggest that prioritizing sleep can help accrue resources needed for work, shifting the perspective from sleep as a reactive restorative process to a proactive protective mechanism. Results also underscore the potential value of organizational policies and leader behaviors that promote and enable sufficient off-hours worker rest.</p>","PeriodicalId":48330,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology","volume":"99 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148753531","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}
Klaus Moser, Katharina Ebner, Dragoș Iliescu, Alexandru-Andrei Sîrbu
{"title":"Self-monitoring and job performance: Substance or style? A meta-analysis","authors":"Klaus Moser, Katharina Ebner, Dragoș Iliescu, Alexandru-Andrei Sîrbu","doi":"10.1111/joop.70139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.70139","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Self-monitoring aims at adjusting one's behaviour in social interactions. While scholars have been convinced that self-monitoring predicts job performance, the strength and nature of the relationship between self-monitoring and job performance remain unclear. Specifically, it may not be explained by a competency perspective but rather a biased-perceiver perspective, where self-monitors may primarily succeed in influencing raters' perceptions of their performance. Therefore, a meta-analysis was conducted, identifying 35 samples that reported the respective correlations. The results reveal a modest overall relationship (<i>r</i> = .12). Importantly, moderator analyses suggest that this relationship is driven by self-monitors influencing supervisors' performance ratings. Likewise, a correlation between self-monitoring and job performance was observed only in supervisor ratings, but not in performance assessments based on outcome measures, and the relationship was evident in ratings of contextual performance, but not of task performance. These findings tend to support a biased-perceiver perspective, suggesting that self-monitoring is more strongly related to impression formation than to actual job performance, though the magnitudes of moderator effects are modest, and residual heterogeneity in the data remains considerable. The modest relationship between self-monitoring and job performance thus appears to be more about style (biased performance ratings) than substance (contributing to actual job performance).</p>","PeriodicalId":48330,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology","volume":"99 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joop.70139","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148753189","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":"Workplace coaching at the crossroads: Introduction to the special issue","authors":"Gil Bozer, Silja Kotte, Almuth McDowall","doi":"10.1111/joop.70153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.70153","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This short editorial introduces the special issue in the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology ‘Workplace coaching at the crossroads’. We outline how workplace coaching has grown into a preferred helping relationship to support workers and leaders in navigating increasingly complex and ever-changing workplaces. Our definition of coaching frames it as a facilitative, dialectical process that enables positive change and outcomes for the coachee. We summarize that meta-analytic evidence tells us that coaching ‘works’ by documenting positive impacts on a range of outcomes, including performance, learning and wellbeing. Yet, we know far less about how coaching works and the role of coaching contexts. The five contributions in this special issue address the coaching process. They are methodologically diverse and include both longitudinal and observational data. We posit that the meta-theme for coaching to work is the coachee's active engagement in shaping the coaching process as they work towards proximal (e.g., self-awareness) and more distal (e.g., long-term goals) outcomes. We conclude with a call for future research to address the coaching context by considering micro-level (e.g., stakeholder alignment), meso-level (e.g., organizational strategy, coaching culture) and macro-level considerations (e.g., societal culture, technological transformation).</p>","PeriodicalId":48330,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology","volume":"99 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joop.70153","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148752524","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}