Lois Tetrick

• Professor at George Mason University

Self-initiative expatriates (SIEs) are increasingly important to the global talent pool. However, they are vulnerable to identity strain due to their self-initiative status and tendency to maintain their previous identity during temporary stays in the host country. Drawing on conservation of resources theory, we establish a resource-based model to...

Aging at work is a dynamic process. As individuals age, their motives, abilities and values change as suggested by life-span development theories (Lang and Carstensen, 2002; Kanfer and Ackerman, 2004). Their growth and extrinsic motives weaken while intrinsic motives increase (Kooij et al., 2011), which may result in workers investing their resourc...

There is a larger proportion and number of older adults in the labor force than ever before. Furthermore, older adults in the workforce are working until later ages. Although a great deal of research has examined physical health and well-being of working older adults, less research has focused on cognitive functioning. The purpose of this article i...

Measurement of occupational health psychology constructs is the cornerstone to developing our understanding of occupational health and safety. It also is critical in the design, evaluation, and implementation of interventions to improve employees and organizations well-being. The purpose of this article is a brief review of the current state of mea...

Purpose Flexible work arrangements are growing in order to develop resource-efficient production and because of advanced technologies, new societal values, changing demographics, and globalization. The article aims to illustrate the emerging challenges and opportunities for work disability prevention efforts among workers in alternate work arrangem...

Purpose For work disability research to have an impact on employer policies and practices it is important for such research to acknowledge and incorporate relevant aspects of the workplace. The goal of this article is to summarize recent theoretical and methodological advances in the field of Implementation Science, relate these to research of empl...

The present study introduced a preliminary measure of employee safety motivation based on the definition of self-determination theory from Fleming (2012) research and validated the structure of self-determined safety motivation (SDSM) by surveying 375 employees in a Chinese high-risk organization. First, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used...

We surveyed 198 graduating college seniors at four points before and after they began a new job to examine the relationship between anticipated organizational support (AOS) and leader–member exchange (LMX) as mediated by information seeking. We found that AOS, assessed before the first day of work, was associated with subsequent LMX 3 months after...

This study examined the moderating influences of 2 culture-related personality traits, relationship orientation and individual-level power distance, on the relations between reciprocity and work outcomes. Two hundred and 4 Chinese employees working in a foreign-invested organization (a company with ownership based in the United States) in Shanghai...

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Job engagement has received widespread attention in organizational research but has rarely been empirically investigated in the context of safety. In the present study, we examined the mediating role of job engagement in the relationships between job characteristics and safety performance using self-reported data collected at a coal mining company...

The effective functioning of cybersecurity incident response teams (CSIRTs) is critical for the protection of digital information used by individuals and organizations around the world. However, because CSIRTs are a relatively new type of team, what is known about improving their effectiveness isn't as fully developed as it is for other teams with...

Employee health and wellness are important for employees, their families, and their organizations. We review the literature on both stress management interventions in organizations and workplace health promotion and wellness programs, from the lens of primary, secondary, and tertiary interventions as well as the framework provided by the job demand...

Generally, computer security incident response team (CSIRT) managers and team members focus only on individual-level skills. The field of organizational psychology can contribute to an understanding of the full range of CSIRT job requirements, which include working as a team and within a larger multiteam system.

Age-related changes in cognitive abilities are well-documented, and a very important indicator of health, functioning, and decline in later life. However, less is known about the course of cognitive functioning before and after retirement and specifically whether job characteristics during one's time of employment (i.e., higher vs. lower levels of...

A four-wave longitudinal study was conducted to examine the development of LMX and its subsequent outcomes among organizational newcomers. Information seeking, instigated by organizational socialization tactics and anticipated perceived organizational support appears to contribute to newcomers’ formation of high quality LMX relationships with super...

Purpose ‐ The article aims to introduce two Special Issues of Journal of Managerial Psychology on age diversity in organizations. It reviews two frameworks for understanding age diversity. The first framework focuses on age stereotypes and bias that have a negative influence on human resource decision making about older workers. The second framewor...

This study uses an interactionist approach to examine the moderating effect of follower trait positive affectivity (trait PA) on the relation between transformational leadership and both follower creative performance and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB). On the basis of responses from 212 employees and their direct supervisors from the re...

The aim of the present study was to examine the impact of regulatory focus in goal pursuit and regulatory fit between marital partners on family conditions and the family-work interface. We hypothesized that when both partners are high on promotion focus (fit) they experience higher developmental possibilities at home and have an increased likeliho...

Occupational health and safety reflects the effect of the work environment on employees, groups and work units in organizations, and organizations as a whole. This chapter provides an overview of the research on workplace safety and specifically discusses safety training, regulatory focus, safety climate, leadership, and job design as they relate t...

An expert panel was convened to select practical, valid psychosocial measures for use during National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health field investigations. A taxonomy of psychosocial constructs was developed using existing taxonomies and criteria regarding the malleability, actionability, and validity of constructs. Panel members ident...

Purpose The goal of this paper is to examine the relation of reciprocity to organizational commitment and the employment exchange relationship. In addition, it aims to investigate cross‐cultural differences on this relation between China and the USA. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from a sample of Chinese employees working on thei...

A growing body of research has suggested that the experience of injustice, psychological contract breach, or unfairness can adversely impact an employee's health. We conducted a meta-analysis to examine the effects of unfairness perceptions on health, examining types of fairness and methodological characteristics as moderators. Results suggested th...

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This study examined psychological empowerment and organizational identification as outcomes of occupational context and predictors of occupational safety performance. In this study, 171 hospital employees from 17 units and 21 occupations completed surveys measuring psychological empowerment, organizational identification, and supervisor safety prac...

The primary purpose of the present study was to examine the effect of salary level, amount of leave per year, the extent of cost-sharing for health care insurance coverage, and type of retirement plan on individuals’ job choice within a United States employment context. Salary, amount of vacation time, cost of health insurance, and type of retireme...

The relationship between investment in employee health and non-health outcomes has received little research attention. Drawing from social exchange and climate theory, the current study uses a multilevel approach to examine the implications of worksite health investment for worksite safety and health climate and employee safety compliance and commi...

The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) is Division 14 of the American Psychological Association (APA) and an organizational affiliate of the Association for Psychological Science (APS). The mission of SIOP is “to enhance human well-being and performance in organizational and work settings by promoting the science, practice,...

Occupational health psychology is a relatively young specialty within the science and practice of psychology. This handbook is designed to consolidate and organize the emerging knowledge in the field from the interdisciplinary perspectives of an international group of scholars and researchers. Part I includes 5 chapters designed to provide historic...

Social exchange theory has provided the dominant basis for understanding exchange relationships in organizational settings. Despite its predominance within the management field, there are a number of unaddressed issues. This special issue seeks to further social exchange research in work settings. We differentiate social from economic exchange and...

Failure to cope with a stressful repatriation transition can derail the global career experience. Repatriate stress-coping behaviors have not been examined empirically, however. This study explores the factor structure of an extensive array of coping strategies and their relation with repatriate adjustment. Data collected from 282 repatriates invol...

Prior integrations of the leader-member exchange (LMX) and psychological contract literatures have not clarified how within-group LMX differentiation influences employees' attitudes and behaviors in the employment relationship. Therefore, using a sample of 278 members and managers of 31 intact work groups at 4 manufacturing plants, the authors exam...

Approximately 4.2 million Americans suffered nonfatal work-related injuries and 6,000 workers died of fatal work-related injuries in the US in 2005 (Bureau of Labor Statistics 200715. Bureau of Labor Statistics (2007), http://www.bls.gov/iif/home.htm (http://www.bls.gov/iif/home.htmo) View all references). Given these numbers, employee safety conti...

Health protection and health promotion activities in organizations have been approached from different disciplines and perspectives, and the work environment has become safer and healthier. However, today's organizations continue to struggle with threats to both the safety and the health of workers and their families. Health protection has taken a...

Health ProtectionHealth PromotionUnderlying Values of Health Protection and Health Promotion ActivitiesRegulatory Foci and Health Promotion and ProtectionFuture Research DirectionsConclusions References

MOR Special Issue: Social Exchange in Organizations - Volume 3 Issue 2 - Lois E. Tetrick, Jacqueline A. Coyle-Shapiro, Xiao-Ping Chen, Lynn M. Shore

Perceived union support and union instrumentality have been shown to uniquely predict union loyalty. This study was the first to explicitly examine the relation between perceived union support and union instrumentality. Surveys were completed by 273 union members and 29 union stewards. A comparison of 2 models, 1 based on organizational support the...

Management and Organization Review Special Issue on ‘Social Exchange in Organizations’ - Volume 3 Issue 1 - Lois E. Tetrick, Jacqueline A. Coyle-Shapiro, Xiao-Ping Chen, Lynn M. Shore

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abstract To add greater theoretical precision to a fundamental construct in social exchange theory – namely, Gouldner's ‘norm of reciprocity’, this study developed a measure of Sahlins' generalized, balanced, and negative reciprocity types and validated its psychometric quality in China. For a comprehensive construct validation of the new scale, we...

The motivating potential of leader behaviors was investigated in a comparative test of two models relating leader behaviors, perceived role clarity, psychological influence, perceived self-competence, self-determination, and intrinsic motivation. Based on the data from 422 naval personnel and their immediate supervisors, it would appear that leader...

This study examined the economic and social exchanges between employee and employer within a model in which perceived organizational support and affective and continuance commitment served as predictors and performance, altruism citizenship behavior, absence, and lateness served as outcomes. Two samples were used. 384 master of business administrat...

There is a considerable body of literature on the interface between the work and non-work domains. Much of this research has focused on the work-family interface and has generally subscribed to a 'role scarcity' or negative spillover approach to the interaction of the work and family domains. As a result, much of the literature has focused on work-...

The third editor of the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology (JOHP) reflects on the past and current research foci in occupational health psychology as reflected in the journal. The field of occupational health psychology and JOHP flourish together. Occupational health psychology is concerned with preventing occupational illness and injuries....

During the last fifteen years, researchers have shown increasing interest in the exchange relationship between the employee and employer. Until now, the literatures examining the employment relationships have tended to operate either from the employer or the employee perspectives and have typically approached the topic from a single discipline be i...

The employee-organization relationship (EOR) has increasingly become a focal point for researchers in organizational behavior, human resource management, and industrial relations. Literature on the EOR has developed at both the individual – (e.g. psychological contracts) and the group and organizational-levels of analysis (e.g. employment relations...

Relationships were examined among management's support for innovation and learning, employee attitudes, and client outcomes. Results from an employee sample within six nonprofit service organizations indicated that if organizational leaders create a work environment supportive of learning and innovation, supervisors may support their staff's empowe...

The employment relationship can be viewed from many different theoretical perspectives, incorporating several different levels of analysis. The preceding chapters reflected these differing approaches to understanding the employment relationship and many of these chapters have provided suggestions for future research directions. The purpose of the c...

Part I allows us to view the employment relationship through a pentagonal prism composed of social exchange, justice, industrial relations, and economic and legal perspectives. As we rotate the prism, allowing the light to refract through different sides, various features of the employment relationship move into the foreground and dominate, while o...

Employees who were attending classes at a local university responded to measures of perceived organizational support, the content of their psychological contracts (e.g., relational and transactional obligations), social and economic exchange, the level of fulfillment of both employee and organizational obligations, and organizational commitment. Pa...

Occupational health psychology (OHP) has emerged as a growing branch of psychology interested in promoting individual and organizational health and well-being. As the interest and concern over how work affects the health and well-being of workers has increased over the years, the need to address this in our research and practice has grown as well....

The present study investigated the role of psychological contract breach in employees' experience of emotional exhaustion and job dissatisfaction. Employees (N = 161) from a large financial corporation completed questionnaires assessing work-related attitudes and behaviors. Fulfillment of organizational obligations predicted both emotional exhausti...

Offers a public health and prevention framework for occupational health psychology. The authors suggest that occupational health psychology should develop, maintain, and promote employees' health and the health of their families. The prevention model presented and elaborated throughout the structure of the handbook classifies preventive interventio...

It has been assumed that organizational learning will lead to improved organizational performance. Thus, the purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between organizational learning (OL) practices as perceived by the employee, and employee performance as assessed by supervisors. Measures of organizational learning derived from Senge's...

Individual health and organizational health have been conceptualized in several ways. This chapter discusses some of these conceptualizations of health including both the medical model, which characterizes health as the absence of illness, and other models, which characterizes health as optimal functioning not just the absence of illness. It is pro...

This study examined a model of the antecedents and consequences of perceived organizational support (POS) and leader-member exchange (LMX). It was predicted that organizational justice (procedural and distributive justice) and organizational practices that provide recognition to the employee (feelings of inclusion and recognition from upper managem...

This study examined a model of the antecedents and consequences of perceived organizational support (POS) and leader-member exchange (LMX). It was predicted that organizational justice (procedural and distributive justice) and organizational practices that provide recognition to the employee (feelings of inclusion and recognition from upper managem...

Previous research demonstrated that individuals differ in the relative sophistication of their schemas for organizing and interpreting social stimuli (i.e., attributional complexity, or AC) and that AC has been linked to performance in social situations. In the present study, 420 employed students completed surveys for an investigation of the relat...

Four computer-typing accommodations were evaluated to determine if arm supports would enhance typing performance and/or comfort of adults with neurological disorders. Each of 12 adults (6 females and 6 males) participated in 7-min typing tasks under the following conditions: 1) without arm support, 2) Ergo Rest arm support, 3) custom arm support in...

A 32-item measure of Becker's original side bet theory of organizational commitment was developed and evaluated for construct validity. Three hundred twenty-seven working MBA students completed surveys. Performance and organizational citizenship behavior was provided by 99 managers. Results revealed five distinct factors, three of which closely ref...

One hundred sixty licensed morticians were surveyed to examine differences among business owners, managers, and employees on the relations proposed by G. F. Koeske and R. D. Koeske's (1993) stressor-strain-outcome model. Forty-eight percent of the morticians were owners, 16% were managers, and 36% were employees. Owners had less social support from...

Test-item response latencies on a measure of conscientiousness from 379 undergraduates divided into 2 groups, a coached fake-good group and an ad-lib-fake-good group, were compared to response latencies on the same measure for a group of respondents instructed to answer honestly. In the comparison of honest to ad-lib-fake-good groups, response late...

Past research suggests that employee perceptions of the benefits provided to them by their organization can influence employee attitudes. Three factors that appear to influence the perception of benefits by employees are benefit satisfaction, benefit importance, and the perceived motive of the organization in providing the benefit to employees. How...

Past research suggests that employee perceptions of the benefits provided to them by their organization can influence employee attitudes. Three factors that appear to influence the perception of benefits by employees are benefit satisfaction, benefit importance, and the perceived motive of the organization in providing the benefit to employees. How...

Previous literature suggests three criticisms of hardiness research: (1) redundancy between hardiness and neuroticism, (2) inappropriate tests of hardiness hypotheses, and (3) a lack of support for hypothesized effects of hardiness. Psychometric concerns underlie these criticisms. Specifically, current hardiness measures rely extensively on negativ...

There is growing concern that rapidly changing patterns of work organization and employment pose risk for occupational illness and injury. In the present article, we assert that these changes create new needs and opportunities for research and practice by psychologists in the area of work organization and health. We begin with an historical overvie...

In 1992, the American Psychological Association and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health collaborated in establishing a pilot program that would select, place, and train postdoctoral-level psychologists in a new specialty, occupational health psychology (OHP), that bridges existing domains both within and external to psychology...

In 1992, the American Psychological Association and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health collaborated in establishing a pilot program that would select, place, and train postdoctoral-level psychologists in a new specialty, occupational health psychology (OHP), that bridges existing domains both within and external to psychology...

Self-, peer, and assessor evaluations in an assessment center were compared to determine whether these three sources utilized the same types of performance information when making overall assessments of managerial potential. Peer and assessor evaluations were expected to show more similarity in terms of information usage than either source would sh...

This article investigates the impact of firm work force characteristics, human resource practices, and external environmental attributes upon the likelihood that a company provides postretirement income and health care benefits. Using data from a national stratified random sample of 953 companies with 20 or more employees, logistic regression model...

This article employs daily closing index data to investigate the relationship between the U.S. and Japanese equity markets. It reassesses and extends the Becker et al. (1990) methodology over a longer sample space. The article then advances the analysis further by estimating structural equation models and by including the exchange rate as an additi...

This article presents a dynamic model of the process in which union commitment is developed and maintained. Central to the model is the fact that commitment occurs in a context of organizational rights which are provided by the union as well as organizational responsibilities or citizenship behaviors on the part of union members. Based on an integr...

In general, previous research suggests that the primary determinant of union members' level of union commitment is their satisfaction with the union's ability to secure desired levels of various work-related outcomes (wages, benefits etc.). This research is consistent with a social exchange based view of union commitment. Eisenberger et al. (1986,...

extends the literature on employee attitudes and benefits programs in 2 ways: (a) by examining the relationship between specific types of benefits (i.e., health and family benefits) and attitudinal outcomes and (b) by examining the impact of unionization on the relationship between benefit coverage and company-related attitudes as well as the relat...

Shifts in economic, political, and social structures are occurring on an international scale and resulting in unprecedented changes in employment relations. These changes include the trend toward more part-time, contingent, and female workers in the workforce and a decrease in the number of unionized employees. This edited volume provides a broad u...

Research on union member attitudes has focused chiefly on union commitment and union instrumentality, which has provided a limited view of the relationship of the union with its members. In this study a confirmatory factor analysis was done to evaluate the construct validity of a measure of perceived union support by examining its distinctiveness f...