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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 …

Journal of Vocational Behavior
Careers Well-being & Health Training & Development Job Attitudes

Career outcomes of work–family conflict: A literature review and future research agenda

Work–family conflict (WFC) represents a critical challenge for employees navigating both work and family domains, with significant implications for their career outcomes. This revi…

The Leadership Quarterly
Leadership Research Methods Theory & Philosophy of Science

From humble beginnings to a critical juncture: redirecting research on humble leadership

Recent reviews portray humble leadership as a near-universal asset, yet a close inspection of 217 journal articles (274 studies) suggests the construct rests on shaky ground. Preva…

Journal of Vocational Behavior
Job Attitudes Work Design Motivation Research Methods

Shifting perspectives: How daily work interruptions relate to interrupters' work engagement

Past research studied how daily work intrusions – unexpected interruptions by other employees that suspend ongoing work – reduce interrupted employees' work engagement. We shift pe…

Academy of Management Review

The Generative AI Dilemma in Knowledge-Intensive Teams

The dynamic capabilities framework has been used to explain how firms successfully adapt to changing environments. However, tensions exist in the literature surrounding the idiosyn…

Journal of Organizational Behavior
Careers

Pregnancy Discrimination Is a Family Affair: Examining Crossover Effects in Couples

ABSTRACT Research consistently finds that workplace discrimination is harmful for employees. However, less is known about how these stressful experiences may affect employees' fami…

Journal of Organizational Behavior
Leadership Diversity & Inclusion Selection & Assessment

Challenging the Gender Status Quo: How Low Gender System Justification Predicts Pro‐Women Leadership Bias

ABSTRACT We offer a new perspective on gender‐based biases in leadership evaluations by examining individual differences in beliefs about the gender status quo. Specifically, acros…

Journal of Business and Psychology
Leadership Diversity & Inclusion

From team captains and line leaders to helpful and caring: gendered leadership prototypes in childhood

Abstract Gender inequality in leadership remains a grand societal challenge. Prior research suggests that implicit leadership prototypes drive this inequality through unequal emerg…

Journal of Business and Psychology

A practical guide to maximizing the benefits of experimental vignette methodology

Experimental vignette methodology (EVM) can serve as a powerful tool for testing causal hypotheses in organizational and applied psychology research. Yet, researchers often lack ac…

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