{"title":"Differential returns from networking behaviours for men and women: A longitudinal study","authors":"Hans-Georg Wolff, Klaus Moser","doi":"10.1111/joop.70090","DOIUrl":"10.1111/joop.70090","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Networking is an important career self-management strategy that affects objective and subjective career outcomes. Concerning gender differences, the prevailing assumption is that women benefit less from networking than men. Yet, some findings on the effects of specific subdimensions of networking suggest that although men benefit from most dimensions, women may benefit as much or even more from at least some dimensions. Based on theories of stereotypes and homophily, as well as findings from social network studies, we explore whether internal and external networking have different effects on career outcomes for men and women. Using data from an 8-year longitudinal study (<i>N</i> = 229), we employ hierarchical linear modelling to examine how internal and external networking behaviours affect changes in salary and career satisfaction. We find that men's salary growth benefits from internal networking, whereas women's salary growth benefits from external networking. Contrary to our expectations, we find only cross-sectional, but no longitudinal, effects of networking on career satisfaction. Our findings suggest that men and women might emphasize different forms of networking to maximize objective returns.</p>","PeriodicalId":48330,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology","volume":"99 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joop.70090","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147323857","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}
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Imogen Sykes-Bridge, Prashant Bordia, Rajiv K. Amarnani, Patrick Raymund James M. Garcia, Luyang Liu
{"title":"Who is motivated to request i-deals? expectancy theory-based analysis in the context of older workers","authors":"Imogen Sykes-Bridge, Prashant Bordia, Rajiv K. Amarnani, Patrick Raymund James M. Garcia, Luyang Liu","doi":"10.1111/joop.70082","DOIUrl":"10.1111/joop.70082","url":null,"abstract":"<p>I-deals provide flexibility and play an important role in sustaining workforce participation among older workers (a growing segment of the workforce). Employee decisions to request i-deals are likely shaped by various cognitions, including perceived benefits of i-deals and expectancies of successful negotiation with their employer. However, what shapes these cognitions has been overlooked in i-deals research. Unfavourable perceptions of value or expectancy of i-deals can serve as significant barriers and curtail access to i-deals. We apply expectancy theory of motivation and examine factors that influence i-deal-related beliefs and i-deal request behaviour. We tested our predictions using two different i-deals: workload reduction and development i-deals. Data (<i>N</i> = 715) were collected in three waves, with antecedents at T1, expectancy beliefs and intention to seek i-deals a month later at T2, and i-deal request behaviours six months later at T3. We found that career ambition influenced valence of development i-deals while work–life conflict influenced valence of workload reduction i-deals. Generalized self-efficacy predicted expectancy beliefs, and perceptions of i-deal availability predicted instrumentality beliefs (for both i-deal types). Valence, expectancy and instrumentality beliefs were related to intention to seek i-deals, which in turn predicted actual i-deal requests in the following 6 months.</p>","PeriodicalId":48330,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology","volume":"99 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146148207","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}
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{"title":"When sharing power leads to taking it back: A shift from empowering to directive leadership","authors":"Hsi-Fang Lai, Shin-Guang Liang","doi":"10.1111/joop.70088","DOIUrl":"10.1111/joop.70088","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Leader behaviour shifts across days, and empowering acts may shape leaders' subsequent self-regulation. Using a leader-centric, within-person lens, we test whether daily empowering leadership is associated with self-regulatory demands and when such demands arise. Drawing on control theory, we argue that power sharing requires continual calibration to keep autonomy and accountability aligned and may coincide with higher day-level regulatory strain indexed by leaders' self-reported ego depletion. We further propose that this strain is more likely when subordinates are low in proactive personality, and that strain is associated with greater directive leadership the next day as a structured response. We tested these expectations in a 10-day experience-sampling study of 129 supervisor–subordinate dyads (719 observations) in a military setting. Multilevel lagged analyses showed a conditional pattern consistent with next-day strain and the subsequent shift towards directive behaviour. These findings clarify when empowerment becomes harder to sustain and how leaders adapt by increasing structure.</p>","PeriodicalId":48330,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology","volume":"99 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146091130","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}
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Qaiser Mehmood, Melvyn R. W. Hamstra, Felipe A. Guzman, Giverny De Boeck
{"title":"Job autonomy as a double-edged sword: Good for work performance, but bad for psychological detachment","authors":"Qaiser Mehmood, Melvyn R. W. Hamstra, Felipe A. Guzman, Giverny De Boeck","doi":"10.1111/joop.70087","DOIUrl":"10.1111/joop.70087","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Job autonomy is regarded as a resource that enhances motivation and performance. Yet, scholars have begun to question its uniformly positive portrayal, suggesting that job autonomy may have downsides. Addressing this debate, we examine how job autonomy can simultaneously foster desirable and undesirable outcomes for employees. Drawing from boundary theory, we propose that job autonomy increases problem-solving pondering, which enhances task performance but impairs psychological detachment. Our findings from a three-wave, time-lagged, multi-source study (<i>N</i> = 331) were consistent with our predictions. For long-term well-being, it may be especially important to support high job autonomy employees in managing work–home boundaries that enable them to disconnect and leave work problems at work.</p>","PeriodicalId":48330,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology","volume":"99 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joop.70087","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146091195","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}
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Neve Abgeller, Mark N. K. Saunders, Rory Donnelly, Tony Dobbins
{"title":"Attributional sense-making of distrust in professional service firms: Working in a coopetitive paradox","authors":"Neve Abgeller, Mark N. K. Saunders, Rory Donnelly, Tony Dobbins","doi":"10.1111/joop.70086","DOIUrl":"10.1111/joop.70086","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Distrust is an inevitable yet often overlooked feature of relationships in professional service firms (PSFs), where simultaneous demands to collaborate and compete produce a coopetitive paradox shaping everyday organizational life. Drawing on 50 in-depth qualitative interviews using the critical incident technique, we examine how professionals attribute meaning to the development of distrust in their working relationships. The analysis identifies three recurring loci—readings of character and conduct (internal), signals from structures, processes, and cultures (external), and interactional cues in day-to-day exchanges (relational)—which often braid together into compound explanations for distrust that travel and endure. In high pressure, identity-sensitive PSFs, coopetition heightens this braiding, making small ambiguities easier to read as self-interest and harder to reverse. The study clarifies how distrust functions as an active, socially embedded process of meaning-making and why it proves so durable in coopetitive settings.</p>","PeriodicalId":48330,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology","volume":"99 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joop.70086","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146002523","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}
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