Helen Pluut

Leiden University | LEI · Department of Business Studies

As societal concern shifts from financial survival towards quality of life issues, both in and outside of the workplace, scholarly interest in employee well-being too has risen greatly in recent years. This greater attention to the antecedents and outcomes of employee well-being, such as job satisfaction, work engagement, and job burnout amongst ot...

Drawing from the literature on behavioral spillover effects, the work-home resources model and research on helping at work, we investigate how help provision at work spills over to influence the provision of spousal support at home by examining a resource generation mechanism and a resource depletion mechanism. Across two experience-sampling studie...

Using experience-sampling methodology, the present study offers a within-individual test of the buffering model of social support in the daily work-family conflict process. Building on the conceptualization of social support as a volatile resource, we examine how daily fluctuations in social support at work and at home influence the process through...

Drawing on conservation of resources and related theories, this study develops and tests an interpersonal model of work-family spillover. Our model specifies how social stressors at work (i.e., workplace incivility, abusive supervision, interpersonal conflict) result in the experience of a social-based form of work-family conflict, ultimately influ...

Online price discrimination (OPD) or personalized pricing has triggered many debates in the existing literature, due to its potential adverse effects on (trust in) markets and certain consumer groups. The implicit assumption underpinning these debates is the actual use of OPD in practice, although empirical research has not provided evidence of its...

We report the results of three validation studies for a short measure of emotional, physical, and behavioral markers of eustress and distress as they occur when individuals encounter stressful events in academic and organizational settings. Given the importance of the distinction between “positive” and “negative” stress as well as the recent resurg...

This paper describes and discusses the portfolio of courses in which empirical legal research skills are currently taught to law students in the Netherlands. It results from an in-depth country-wide study we undertook as part of a project supported by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) in view of the growing attention to empirical legal studies (ELS)...

For entrepreneurs in financial distress, it is of vital importance that investors and bankers accurately assess the viability of their business, free of unwanted biases that bear no relevance to the assessment of the chance of survival. Despite the prevalence of entrepreneurs facing financial distress, little research has yet investigated the role...

Drawing on the resource (drain) perspective in work-family spillover theory and conservation of resources theory, the current paper studies the daily consequences of working from home for employees' work-home interface and well-being. We build an intraindividual model that investigates how working from home influences experiences of time pressure,...

Factors That Influence How People Think About the Fairness of Distribution of Wealth and Income: A Survey Study Among Dutch Citizens Ever since ancient Greece, people have philosophized and discussed about the fair distribution of resources. A body of empirical research on this topic has emerged in the second half of the 20st century. Oftentimes, r...

Gegeven discussies over de T-shaped lawyer en de aandacht voor Empirical Legal Studies, pleiten wij in deze bijdrage voor versterking van het empirische profiel van rechtenstudenten met basiskennis van statistiek. Enerzijds om de aannames waar het recht op berust te kunnen toetsen en de uitwerking van het recht beter te begrijpen. Anderzijds vanweg...

As there is a growing trend for people to work from home, precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic, this research examines the impact of blurred work-life boundaries on lifestyle and subjective well-being. Our cross-sectional study in the Netherlands demonstrates that heightened levels of blurred work-life boundaries predict negative changes in happin...

Following a corporate disaster such as bankruptcy, people in general and damaged parties, in particular, want to know what happened and whether the company's directors are to blame. The accurate assessment of directors’ liability can be jeopardized by having to judge in hindsight with full knowledge of the adverse outcome. The present study investi...

It is imperative to investigate how parents who return to work after childbirth can avoid falling prey to the conflicting demands of work and family. This chapter looks for answers in the social support network of new parents. We conduct a literature review, focusing on the benefits of social support for working parents on the one hand and the chal...

This work examines tensions in the military–employee–family triad and how it influences employees’ and partners’ attitudes towards the organization. Survey data from Navy personnel and their partners were collected while they were geographically separated due to deployment. Results show that tensions between work and family perceived by employees a...

This cross-sectional field study examines the influence of employee and spousal characteristics on employees’ career-related motivations in dual ladder systems. We go beyond “constraints-based” explanations of spousal influence and focus on the degree to which the spouse has aspirations for the focal employee’s career – referred to as spousal caree...

Purpose: Recent evidence from glass cliff research suggests that women are more willing than men to accept risky leadership positions. The purpose of this paper (based on three studies) is to reveal and resolve the apparent paradox that women are more risk averse than men yet end up in risky leadership positions. Design/methodology/approach: In St...

Purpose This paper aims to test the influence of external information search (EIS) on knowledge elaboration and group cognitive complexity (GCC) under the moderating effect of absorptive capacity (AC is indicated by prior knowledge base and gender diversity). Design/methodology/approach The results of three studies (one field study and two experim...

Previous work on need fulfillment focused on the evaluation and consequences of the psychological benefits that employees derive from work, but has not fully considered the socioemotional benefits that employees acquire from working relationships. In this study, we introduce interpersonal need fulfillment as a distinct potential benefit that employ...

In het burgerlijk recht draait het vaak om het toedelen van verantwoordelijkheid en het verdelen van schade. De rechter heeft een centrale rol bij dat proces van toedelen en verdelen. Maar hoe denkt de burger er zelf over? Aan wie en in welke mate zou de burger verantwoordelijkheid voor schadelijke gebeurtenissen toedelen? En zou er invloed zijn va...

Feiten van algemene bekendheid en ervaringsregels behoeven geen bewijs. De rechter mag ze ambtshalve aan zijn beslissing ten grondslag leggen. Het is echter de vraag of leken dergelijke feiten ook zo ‘algemeen bekend’ vinden en of zij ervaringsregels net zo evident vinden als de rechter. Eerder onderzoek onder rechtenstudenten toonde aan dat dit la...

In a field study (148 participants organized in 38 groups) we tested the effect of group synergy and one's position in relation to the collaborative zone of proximal development (CZPD) on the change of individual decision-making competencies. We used two parallel sets of decision tasks reported in previous research to test rationality and we evalua...

In this article, we attempt to integrate the commentaries to our position paper on intra-individual models of employee well-being (EWB; Ilies, R., Aw, S. S. Y., & Pluut, H. (2015). Intraindividual models of employee well-being: What have we learned and where do we go from here? European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, Advance online...

The present study draws from research on the family-relatedness of work decisions to examine the impact of partner characteristics on employee’s willingness to engage in job-related relocation. Based on a dyadic study design, 211 employees and their partners participated in the study. Results suggest that partner’s willingness to relocate mediates...

Using a cross-lagged design, the present study tests an integrative model of emergent collective emotions in learning groups. Our results indicate that the percentage of women in the group fosters the emergence of collective emotional intelligence, which in turn stimulates social integration within groups (increases group cohesion and reduces relat...

Multiple team membership as a work design feature is becoming more widespread in modern organizations, with expected positive and negative consequences for individual employees. This study explores whether fragmentation of time across multiple teams is a job demand or a job resource for employees. Drawing on the Job Demands–Resources framework and...

Using experience sampling methodology, the present study examines longitudinally the role of social support from work and home sources in the daily spillover process that links work to family. A total of 112 employees participated in the study and were asked to respond to daily surveys in the work and home domain. Within-individual analyses reveale...

In this longitudinal study, we contribute to the contingency models of intragroup conflict by examining the moderating role of coping strategies in the evolution of conflict over time. We conceptualize coping strategy as a configural group property and focus on whether task conflict evolves into relationship conflict (conflict transformation) and o...

Collaborative learning has important group‐level benefits, yet most studies in higher education only focus on individual benefits of collaborative learning experiences. This study extends these insights by testing a model in which teamwork quality mediates the impact of several compositional differences (gender, nationality and teamwork expertise d...