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Organizational Psychology Review
Motivation

The Beacon Effect: A Model of Humanistic Impression Management

Impression management is often portrayed as a self-serving strategy for personal gain. We propose that impression management can also operate as a humanistic act—one in which actor…

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
Motivation Research Methods

Justification aversion: The road to more effective defaults

Default options are one of the most frequently used tools of choice architecture, yet the factors that influence their effectiveness remain imperfectly understood. As a way to impr…

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
Well-being & Health Work Design Job Attitudes

Humanizing the frontlines: individuating connections reduce customer mistreatment

Customer mistreatment of frontline service workers persists, even as technological advancements have reshaped how services are delivered. In many service encounters, employees are …

Academy of Management Journal
Personality Performance Management Research Methods

Resolving the Performance Feedback Puzzle: CEO Psychopathy, Heterogeneous Emotional Responses to Aspiration Gaps, and Risk-Taking

Theoretical perspectives provide conflicting predictions regarding how firms adjust risk-taking in response to performance–aspiration gaps. The behavioral theory of the firm attrib…

Academy of Management Review

Close Friends, Closer Comparisons: Regulating Envy in Multiplex Relationships

Workplace envy is a socially embedded experience with important personal and relational implications. Yet, not all workplace relationships provide the same context for experiencing…

Journal of Management
Research Methods Work Design Selection & Assessment

O*NET Plus: A Review and Organizing Framework Extending O*NET’s Content Model in Management Research

The Occupational Information Network (O*NET) is a database of occupational descriptors sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor. Since its release around the turn of the century, …

Journal of Business and Psychology
Well-being & Health Motivation Research Methods

From peaks to plummets—linking sleep, effort, and absorption to trajectories of energetic activation during the day

Abstract This study examines daily energy trajectories at work from a temporal self-regulation perspective, addressing the paradoxical finding that effort can be both energizing an…

Journal of Organizational Behavior
Leadership Well-being & Health Teams & Groups

When Managing Time Comes at a Cost: A Cross‐Role Resource Tradeoff Perspective on Team Temporal Leadership

ABSTRACT While team temporal leadership (TL) has been widely regarded as beneficial for team functioning, existing research has largely overlooked the potential resource costs unde…

Academy of Management Review
Theory & Philosophy of Science Leadership Training & Development

A Process Model of Managerial Phronesis in the Age of Generative AI

Managerial phronesis involves first-hand experience that helps managers make moral and context-specific judgments at work in pursuit of the common good. Yet, as managers increasing…

Journal of Business and Psychology
Selection & Assessment Research Methods Performance Management

Is general mental ability still the best predictor of job performance? Integrating contemporary meta-analytic evidence

Abstract For decades, general mental ability (GMA) has been described as the single best predictor of job performance, with meta-analyses suggesting corrected validities near .50. …

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