Kristina Potočnik

Kristina Potočnik
University of Edinburgh | UoE · Business School

PhD in Psychology

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Introduction
Currently working at the University of Edinburgh on projects in diverse areas, including innovation, organizational limits and sensemaking, personnel selection, and healthy ageing at work.
Additional affiliations
August 2016 - July 2022
University of Edinburgh
Position
  • Senior Lecturer
January 2005 - December 2009
University of Valencia
Position
  • PhD researcher and teaching assistant
July 2012 - August 2016
University of Edinburgh
Position
  • Lecturer

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Publications (71)
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Menopause, whether natural (ie, the permanent cessation of an individuals's menstrual cycle for at least 12 consecutive months, without any other obvious cause), surgical, or induced by medical treatments, is characterised by the permanent cessation of menstruation. Menopause affects all those assigned female at birth, hereafter referred to as “wom...
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Background Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) occurs when one or more pelvic organs (uterus, bowel, bladder or top of the vagina) descend from their normal position and bulge into the vagina. Symptoms include pelvic discomfort, fullness, and changes in bladder or bowel function. Treatment ranges from conservative approaches to surgery, depending on sympto...
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Objective: To identify the mental health implications among perimenopausal, menopausal, and post-menopausal women undergoing natural, surgical, or medical menopause in Sri Lanka. Design: A mixed-methods study was designed and used. Methods: The study secured ethics approval prior to commence the recruitment. This interim evaluation included 38 S...
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Background: Menopause is the natural biological process marking the end of a woman's reproductive years. Common symptoms include hot flushes, night sweats, mood changes, and sleep disturbances. Menopause is diagnosed after 12 consecutive months without a period. While it’s a normal stage of life, the severity of symptoms can vary widely among women...
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Objective: To assess the mental health implications among peri- menopausal, menopausal, or post-menopausal women who were undergoing natural, surgical, or medical menopause in Malaysia. Design: A mixed-methods study was designed and conducted in Malaysia following Ethics committee approval. Methods: This interim analysis involved 50 women, aged 18–...
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Objective: To assess the mental health implications among per- imenopausal, menopausal, or post-menopausal women. Design: A mixed-methods study was designed and conducted in Nigeria following Ethics committee approval. Methods: This interim analysis encompasses 40 participants, including all women aged 18–90 living in Nigeria who pro- vided inform...
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Objective: This study aims to determine the mental health im- pact and workforce issues of perimenopausal, menopausal, or post-menopausal women and trans men who have had natural, surgical, or medical menopause. Design: A mixed-methods study was conducted in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland following Ethics commit- tee and Health Resea...
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Menopause marks the end of the menstruation period which can incur naturally or due to surgery where the ovaries or the uterus is removed, or the use of other treatments like chemotherapy. Menopause elicits both physiological and psychological changes such as joint or pelvic pain, headaches or migraine, cognitive function and mental health problems...
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Background: Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) is a treatment for menopausal conditions. Studies showing benefits of HRT in preventing chronic diseases lead to development of clinical guidelines by the American College of Physicians. This study aims to assess the effectiveness of HRT treatments across cardiometabolic measures including Triglycerides...
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Health and safety in the workplace are the components of one of the dimensions of decent work (dos Santos, 2019; Ferraro et al., 2018). It is evident that workers in any country aspire to have their jobs provide health and safety. However, it is also true that countries and cultures vary in the way they conceive these aspects of work. On the one ha...
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Management is a global phenomenon. Yet, the vast majority of empirical investigations and theoretical explanations of management, managers and those being managed that are published in leading management journals are based on research that predominantly originates from Western contexts, particularly the USA and the larger European countries. Non‐We...
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The Journal of Management Studies , founded in 1963, is celebrating its 60 th year. Clark et al. (2014) conducted a bibliometric analysis for its 50 th anniversary assessing whether the journal had maintained its leading international ranking and sustained its mission to serve as a broad‐based management outlet. In this review, we build on and exte...
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While there is an increasingly vibrant conversation around menopause and work, there remains a paucity of evidence on teachers' experience of menopause at work. During the recent pandemic, most occupations, including teachers, worked in a substantially different way than ever before. While working from home presented challenges, it highlighted that...
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Purpose: Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT), an FDA-approved treatment for menopausal conditions was found to be associated with increased risk of endometrial cancer and reduced oestrogen. Studies showing benefits of HRT in preventing chronic diseases lead to development of clinical guidelines by American College of Physicians. This study aims to as...
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In this paper we aim to critically discuss the challenges and benefits of using survey instruments (SIs) by measuring human resource management (HRM) parameters across five emerging markets – Brunei Darussalam, India, Jordan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates. In so doing, we proceed to an assessment of the measurement invariance of...
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Academics often assess contributions to management research in terms of their influence on the scholarly conversation. At JMS, we aspire to publish papers that significantly change scholarly conversations in productive ways. However, precisely what it means and what it takes to change a scholarly conversation is not entirely clear, especially in mi...
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Menopause is one of the most distinctive and individualised aspects of health-related gendered ageing at work, which is important as more women than ever before are working through their entire menopause cycle. We turn to the life-span development model of Selection, Optimisation and Compensation (SOC), which has great potential to provide a more n...
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Our research has empirically supported the long-term manifestation of the resource depletion, accumulation, and investment mechanisms which have been proposed in the conservation of resources (COR) theory but have been under-investigated in the work–life balance (WLB) literature. Specifically, we have examined how multiple work and non-work context...
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Work–life balance is shaped not only by how individuals manage their personal demands and resources, but also by stressors and work–life balance support mechanisms from external environment encompassing multilevel social systems. Our systematic literature review focuses particularly on the role of work–life balance support, drawing on 384 journal a...
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Considered as one of the cornerstones of work and organizational psychology, it is not surprising that the selection and recruitment literature is vast. In this review, we synthesize and integrate the findings from around 40 meta-analyses and literature reviews from the last decade to identify the most recent meta-trends and future research directi...
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This mixed-method study explores the relationship between CEO transformational leadership and firm performance relying exclusively on secondary data. We used a random sample comprising of 42 CEOs of publicly-listed US and European companies. We evaluated their transformational leadership drawing upon media sources which were content analyzed to cre...
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In commercial aviation, loss of control (LOC) incidents are currently the single biggest cause of accident fatalities. Although LOC incidents typically have multiple causes, inappropriate flight crew responses to unfamiliar conditions are a major contributor. It has been suggested that restricted exposure to unusual aircraft behavior and limited ma...
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Creativity at work is the process of generating novel and useful ideas to either introduce new products, processes, or services in the workplace or improve the existing ones. As such, creativity at work has been considered essential for improving organizational performance and making businesses flourish. Importantly, creativity at work has to be di...
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The British dispute resolution system can be characterized as a voluntarist approach to collective conciliation and mediation. The employment law in the UK does not impose conciliation or mediation on disputing parties and the trade union can call for strike action if its members support it without going through conciliation or mediation first. If...
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Organizations, particularly those for whom safety and reliability are crucial, develop routines to protect them from failure. But even highly reliable organizations are not immune to disaster and prolonged periods of safe operation are punctuated by occasional catastrophes. Scholars of safety science label this the “paradox of almost totally safe s...
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In Zeiten turbulenter, durch die globale Rezession ernsthaft angeschlagener Märkte ist es für Organisationen bedeutsam, zur Erlangung bzw. Aufrechterhaltung ihrer Wettbewerbsfähigkeit kontinuierlich zu innovieren. Ein Weg, organisationale Innovation zu steigern, besteht in der Rekrutierung und Auswahl innovativer Talente. Gemeint sind organisations...
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This study examines applicant reactions to ten popular selection methods in China. Using a sample of 294 graduates we found that Chinese applicants’ reactions were highly favorable for work sample tests, interviews, and written ability tests, whereas Guanxi (i.e., relying on personal contacts when applying for a job) and graphology were perceived a...
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The aim of this paper is to examine and clarify the nomological network of change and innovation (CI)-related constructs. A literature review in this field revealed a number of interrelated constructs that have emerged over the last decades. We examine several such constructs—innovation, creativity, proactive behaviours, job crafting, voice, taking...
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Achieving healthy ageing and well-being at work has become an issue of growing importance, particularly with recent changes in retirement legislation in Europe and beyond. Some of these changes include the abolition of mandatory retirement age in the UK and increased retirement ages in other European Union (EU) countries—in most cases, from 65 to 6...
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Research on cognitive effects of retirement, drawing on different theoretical approaches, such as disengagement theory, activity theory, and human capital theory, has argued that the loss of employment following retirement might lead to the absence of engagement in intellectually stimulating activities which, in turn, suggests that cognitive impair...
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Innovation in the workplace has been claimed to be a key factor in organizational survival and success. As future workers, university students are a major source of future innovations in organizational settings. Before they enter the labour market, it is in the context of Higher Education that they start developing some of their long-term behaviour...
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We review the organisational performance (OP) measurement literature highlighting the limitations of both objective and subjective measures of performance. We argue that, with careful planning, subjective measures can be successfully employed to assess OP. This is because often consistent, reliable and comparable compatible objective data on OP mea...
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Creativity and innovation in any organization are vital to its successful performance. The authors review the rapidly growing body of research in this area with particular attention to the period 2002 to 2013, inclusive. Conceiving of both creativity and innovation as being integral parts of essentially the same process, we propose a new, integrati...
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International Human Resource Management - edited by Mustafa F. Özbilgin March 2014
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In Zeiten turbulenter, durch die globale Rezession ernsthaft angeschlagener Märkte ist es für Organisationen bedeutsam, zur Erlangung bzw. Aufrechterhaltung ihrer Wettbewerbsfähigkeit kontinuierlich zu innovieren. Ein Weg, organisationale Innovation zu steigern, besteht in der Rekrutierung und Auswahl innovativer Talente. Gemeint sind organisations...
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We validate, extend, and empirically and theoretically criticize the cultural dimension of humane orientation of the project GLOBE (Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness Research Program, House et al., 2004). Theoretically, humane orientation is not just a one-dimensionally positive concept about being caring, altruistic, and...
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We validate, extend, and empirically and theoretically criticize the cultural dimension of humane orientation of the project GLOBE (Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness Research Program). Theoretically, humane orientation is not just a one-dimensionally positive concept about being caring, altruistic, and kind to others as di...
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The main aim of the present study was to explore different patterns of retirement satisfaction. Following the dynamic model of job satisfaction, we identify different retirement satisfaction forms. We also examined a set of antecedents of observed retirement satisfaction forms and their impact on psychological well-being. Using a sample of 270 Span...
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This study examines the impact of engaging in seven types of activities on depression and quality of life in retirees and older workers over a period of 2 years, using a sample from the survey of health, ageing and retirement in E urope. Longitudinal data were available from 2,813 retirees and 1,372 older employees. Our results showed that voluntee...
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This study examines the evaluation of innovation in a wider competency framework and within a 360‐degree rating procedure among managerial‐level job holders. The total sample of 2,979 individuals consisted of 296 target employees and their 318 bosses, 1208 peers, 828 direct reports, and 329 others who provided ratings on a competency framework. The...
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This study examines whether climate strength has a direct, moderating, or curvilinear effect in the relationship between service climate and customer service quality perceptions. To this end, we carried out cross-sectional and lagged empirical studies in the Spanish hospitality sector. Our cross-sectional results confirmed that high climate strengt...
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Research addressing customer satisfaction has not been conducted within an integrated framework. Two approaches have been developed separately with different levels of construct and analysis: organizational behavior and consumer behavior. Our research study provides an initial step in developing integrative strategies with the joint consideration o...
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The present study explores the influence of the early retirement process on adjustment to early retirement, taking into account the roles of individual characteristics and social context in this process. We proposed a systematic model integrating perceived ability to continue working, organizational pressures toward early retirement and group norms...
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En muchas organizaciones de servicios, como los hoteles, no existe un perfil uniforme de cliente. De hecho, en los hoteles españoles hay dos segmentos especialmente relevantes. Por una parte, clientes que utilizan el servicio por motivos asociados al trabajo ("negocios"). Por otra, clientes cuyo motivo principal de uso del servicio es "vacacional"....
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El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo principal examinar las relaciones entre tres dimensiones de calidad de servicio (aspectos funcionales, relacionales y tangibles) y la satisfacción de los clientes en dos tipos de organizaciones de servicios: comercial y sin ánimo de lucro. Los usuarios de dichos servicios tienen motivaciones y expectativas di...
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The present study analyzed retirement intentions and behavior as part of a work role withdrawal process. We examined the influences of the organizational and group contexts in the process of work role exit by means of two sources of work role expectations: human resource practices and group norms. Three different types of human resource practices w...
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The present study analyses the adjustment to retirement in terms of satisfaction and psychological well-being in a sample of 270 early and on-time retirees. Three factors were taken into consideration -type of retirement (early vs on-time retirement), perception of the extent to which retirement was voluntary (voluntariness) and gender. The results...
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The present study analyses the adjustment to retirement in terms of satisfaction and psychological well-being in a sample of 270 early and on-time retirees. Three factors were taken into consideration -type of retirement (early vs on-time retirement), perception of the extent to which retirement was voluntary (voluntariness) and gender. The results...

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