{"title":"I won't let you down! Transformational leadership, anticipated guilt of failure, and follower extra work effort","authors":"Chang-Jun Li, Hong Deng, Fuli Li, Lanyue Fan","doi":"10.1111/joop.70089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.70089","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Transformational leadership research has predominantly assumed that followers are motivated to work hard under a transformational leader due to the <i>pleasant</i> social and personal experiences they derive from the leader. Challenging and complementing this view, we adopt a self-discrepancy perspective to propose <i>anticipated guilt of failure</i>, a psychological discomfort arising from concerns about failing to fulfil one's obligations, as a novel explanatory mechanism. We argue that transformational leadership will induce followers to anticipate feelings of guilt over potential failures in meeting their leaders' expectations, thereby motivating them to exert extra effort at work, particularly in uncertain work environments. Across four studies, including two field surveys and two experiments (total <i>N</i> = 1166), we consistently find that anticipated guilt of failure, as an <i>unpleasant</i> and <i>prevention-focused</i> motivational state, mediates the positive effect of transformational leadership on followers' extra work effort, even after accounting for previously established pleasant, promotion-focused mediators. Moreover, perceived work uncertainty strengthens this new mediation process by amplifying the effect of transformational leadership on anticipated guilt of failure. Our research uncovers an unintended psychological cost that transformational leadership likely imposes on followers in motivating their work effort, offering new insights into how transformational leaders motivate and impact followers.</p>","PeriodicalId":48330,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology","volume":"99 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147315446","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}
Brent A. Stevenor, Michael J. Zickar, Chet Robie, Rick R. Jacobs
{"title":"Exploring the relation between IRT estimates of within-person variability in personality and job performance","authors":"Brent A. Stevenor, Michael J. Zickar, Chet Robie, Rick R. Jacobs","doi":"10.1111/joop.70094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.70094","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The relation between Item Response Theory tree (IRTree) estimates of within-person variability in responses to Big Five personality items and supervisor ratings of job performance was examined in this research. Using a large incumbent sample (<i>N</i> = 1108), within-person variability within and across Big Five domains was estimated using a modern IRTree model. The results suggest that the direction and magnitude of the relation between IRTree estimates of within-person variability in personality and supervisor ratings of job performance depend on the level at which within-person variability is estimated (within or across Big Five domains) and the level at which performance is measured (broad or specific dimensions of job performance). Additionally, there were multiple instances in which Big Five within-person variability estimates predicted job performance over and above trait estimates. The implications of these findings as well as limitations and future directions are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":48330,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology","volume":"99 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147299873","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}
David Zweig, Kristyn A. Scott, Alycia Damp, Tiffany Paquin
{"title":"Mitigating the toxic experience of knowledge theft: An exploration of interventions","authors":"David Zweig, Kristyn A. Scott, Alycia Damp, Tiffany Paquin","doi":"10.1111/joop.70093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.70093","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Drawing on research on toxic emotions and toxic climates, we investigate the emotional consequences of knowledge theft—when a colleague intentionally takes credit for our work or ideas. In two experimental studies, we highlight the central role of perceived loss in the relationship between the experience of knowledge theft and the anger it elicits in victims. Furthermore, we propose and evaluate two practical interventions that leaders and colleagues can implement to mitigate the toxic emotional effects of knowledge theft and to restore what was lost. Our experimental results demonstrate that when leaders and colleagues amplify rightful ownership, knowledge theft victims' anger is reduced as ownership is restored. By implementing preventative measures that acknowledge and protect idea ownership, organizations can interrupt the toxicity of knowledge theft and mitigate its detrimental consequences on victims.</p>","PeriodicalId":48330,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology","volume":"99 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joop.70093","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147269017","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}
Jeremy B. Bernerth, Gargi Sawhney, Songqi Liu, Jaclyn Koopmann, Taylor Flinn
{"title":"From fried to focused? A daily diary study of after-work cannabis use and downstream performance effects","authors":"Jeremy B. Bernerth, Gargi Sawhney, Songqi Liu, Jaclyn Koopmann, Taylor Flinn","doi":"10.1111/joop.70092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.70092","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Claims regarding the implications of employee cannabis use vary considerably even though little research explores cannabis as it relates to the modern workplace. Drawing from substance use theories and the epidemiology literature, we develop a conceptual model that suggests after-work cannabis use is a mechanism to help employees protect cognitive resources in the evening, allowing them to stay engaged at work the next day. In a daily diary study of cannabis users and non-users, we find no link between after-work cannabis use and next-day executive functioning, cognitive engagement or daily task performance. A deeper dive into the literature led to a contextualized model including both within- and between-person moderators that we tested in a second daily diary study of cannabis users. We specifically predict moderated indirect effects from after-work cannabis use to cognitive engagement at work the following day. Results from this second study indicate after-work cannabis use interacts with daily workload and a between-person performance-related cannabis use motive to predict next-day cognitive engagement. Daily cognitive engagement is subsequently related to changes in daily task performance. Collectively, results suggest that theories on employee substance use should be updated to better account for the daily effects (or non-effects) of after-work cannabis use on important workplace outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":48330,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology","volume":"99 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joop.70092","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147269016","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":"Differential returns from networking behaviours for men and women: A longitudinal study","authors":"Hans-Georg Wolff, Klaus Moser","doi":"10.1111/joop.70090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/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}
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":"https://doi.org/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}
{"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":"https://doi.org/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}
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":"https://doi.org/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}
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":"https://doi.org/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}
{"title":"When plans do not work out: Planning enhances perceived goal progress but increases perceived stress in case of goal failure","authors":"Nina Trenz, Nina Keith","doi":"10.1111/joop.70085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.70085","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Planning is thought to benefit goal progress and goal achievement, thus fostering well-being and performance at work. In contrast to this positive view, the present study illustrates that planning might have undesirable effects when goals are not met. Specifically, planning may increase perceived stress in terms of lower control appraisals resulting from goal failure. In a diary study, we asked 192 employees to set daily work goals over the course of five workdays. We assessed planning every morning and perceived goal progress as well as goal failure and perceived stress every evening. As expected, planning was associated with increased perceived goal progress and, in turn, with reduced perceived stress (mediation effect). However, the direct relationship between planning and perceived stress was moderated by goal failure. When goals were achieved, planning was associated with decreased perceived stress; when goals were not achieved, planning was associated with increased perceived stress. The results show that planning positively relates to the perception of goal progress, but if goals are not met, planning may reinforce the resulting perceived stress. To counteract this potential side effect of planning, daily plans should anticipate potential setbacks and incorporate strategies for dealing with failure.</p>","PeriodicalId":48330,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology","volume":"99 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/joop.70085","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146002129","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}