Rob B. Briner

Rob B. Briner
Queen Mary University of London | QMUL · School of Business and Management

PhD

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Psychological contract research has typically focused on employees’ perceptions of whether the organization has generally fulfilled or broken its promises/obligations. However, employees can experience broken and fulfilled promises as discrete events on an everyday basis, which may have immediate implications for employees and also influence their...
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This manifesto presents 10 recommendations for a sustainable future for the field of Work and Organizational Psychology. The manifesto is the result of an emerging movement around the Future of WOP (see www. futureofwop.com), which aims to bring together WOP-scholars committed to actively contribute to building a better future for our field. Our re...
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An era of financial constraints calls for effective and efficient committee work when making collective decisions. A systematic search identified research literatures in business administration, health research and service development, and social psychology addressing decision making about highly technical issues by mixed groups of people. Existing...
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In an era of financial constraints calls for effective and efficient committee work when making collective decisions. A systematic search identified research literatures in business administration, health research and service development, and social psychology addressing decision making about highly technical issues by mixed groups of people. Exist...
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Evidence-based practice (EBP) in management is still in its infancy. Several studies suggest that managers in businesses and other organizations do not consult the scientific evidence when making decisions. To facilitate its uptake, we need to better understand practitioner attitudes and perceived barriers related to EBP. In medicine and nursing, a...
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Although there is much research on the links between work and well‐being, there is relatively little good‐quality research on resource‐based or other interventions such as more traditional stress management and job redesign. This paper provides guidance about how to improve the quality of intervention research. First, drawing on the logic of interv...
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While the literature has suggested the possibility of breach being composed of multiple facets, no previous study has investigated this possibility empirically. This study examined the factor structure of typical component forms in order to develop a multiple component form measure of breach. Two studies were conducted. In study 1 (N=420) multi-ite...
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Evidence-based human resource management (EBHRM) refers to a set of related approaches that aim to increase the use of evidence in HR practice.
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AT END OF THE ATTACHED PDF: In the first of a series of columns, Rob Briner, professor of organisational psychology at Bath University’s School of Management, explores the case for evidence-based HR. - See more at: http://www.hrmagazine.co.uk/hr/features/1149117/whats-evidence-evidence-hr#sthash.Q93TvYBp.dpuf
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Fiscal austerity is having major impacts on public service organizations, but little is known about the effects of these changes on employees’ well-being, attitudes, and behaviors. Following a major UK national government announcement of budget reductions, we conducted a longitudinal field study of employees in diverse public sector organizations a...
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The concept of evidence-based practice origi-nated in the field of medicine over 20 years ago. What is less known is that evidence-based prac-tice started as a teaching method, developed at McMaster University in Canada by a team of physicians, biostatisticians, and clinical epide-miologists. This team, headed by David Sackett, successfully develop...
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One of the four sources of evidence used in evidence-based management (EBMgt) is academic research. However, rather than taking evidence from single studies or arbitrarily selected studies, EBMgt uses findings from systematic reviews that methodically summarize the body of evidence relevant to a specific question. This allows for conclusions to be...
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Employee engagement is more like a muddy puddle than clear water, argues ROB BRINER. In this provocative article, he discusses why HR needs to put the concept back under the microscope.
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Service profit chain and service climate research identifies the importance of employee attitudes and employee service behavior as mediating between organizational practices and customer satisfaction. While the importance of employee attitudes and customer service performance are acknowledged, there are calls to more precisely specify proximal medi...
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Many countries are facing the twin pressures of austerity and recession following the 2007–2008 global financial crisis. This paper uses the UK public sector and a major national announcement of budget cuts signalling extensive organizational cutbacks as its setting. We examine (a) whether organizational changes following the national announcement...
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The purpose of this invited (by Engage for Success) paper is to stimulate deeper and more critical thinking about employee engagement from an evidence-based practice perspective. Five key challenges facing the field are considered: 1. Defining engagement 2. Measuring engagement 3. Engagement is nothing new or different 4. There is almost no good qu...
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Fiscal austerity is having major impacts on public service organizations, but little is known about the effects of these changes on employees' well-being, attitudes, and behaviors. Following a major UK national government announcement of budget reductions, we conducted a longitudinal field study of employees in diverse public sector organizations a...
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Kepes and McDaniel (2013) have provided us with a valuable and challenging overview of some of the poor scientific practices that have become institutional-ized within industrial and organizational (I–O) psychology research. As they make clear, these dubious scientific practices are not unique to I–O psychology, they are not new, and have been subj...
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To better understand how ethnicity is actually experienced within organizations, we examined reported increases in ethnic identity salience at work and responses to such increases. Thirty British black Caribbean graduate employees were interviewed about how and when they experienced their ethnic identity at work. The findings demonstrated that incr...
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Cassar and Briner (2005) indicated that psychological contract breach is characterized by at least five characteristics, namely delay, magnitude, type-form, inequity, and reciprocal imbalance. This study investigated the extent to which explanations differed across different characteristics of breach, as well as the relationships of explanations to...
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Organizations can be led and managed in many different ways and there is no shortage of perspectives, models, and frameworks for thinking about how such tasks can be accomplished. This chapter focuses on one such perspective: evidence-based management (EBMgt). It starts with an account of the origins of the idea of evidence-based practice in other...
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Event synopsis: Hosted by the British Psychological Society, Special Group in Coaching Psychology In the spirit of continuing to bring together the growing coaching psychology community to enable sharing and learning from each other, the SGCP is delighted to announce the 4th European Coaching Psychology Conference.
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The relationship between individual‐level organizational commitment and employee's performance has been the subject of considerable empirical investigation over several decades. However, few studies have examined the effect of collective organizational commitment on unit or organizational‐level performance, even though available theory suggests com...
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IntroductionHistory of the Psychological Contract ConceptContemporary Approaches to Defining the Psychological ContractReviewing the Main Research Streams: What Do We Know?Methodological ChallengesFive Challenges to the Psychological Contract NotionResponses to the Five ChallengesConclusion
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Background Evidence-based Practice – From Medicine to ManagementWhat is Evidence-based Management, and Where Did It Come From?Evidence-based Management in PracticeDeveloping Evidence-based Trauma Management for Organizations: What Emerged from the Early Debate on Psychological Debriefing?What Needed to Change?What New Evidence Has Emerged?More Gene...
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IntroductionWhat are the Problems Evidence-Based Practice has Evolved to Tackle?What are Evidence-Based Approaches to Practice?The Role of Systematic ReviewsHow Evidence-Based is Occupational Health Psychology?How Can We Develop Evidence-Based OHP?Conclusion References
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Seven management researchers, who participated in a plenary session at the Academy of Management 2009 Annual Meeting in Chicago, present their views on how to renew methodological approaches in management theory and on how to deal with the persistent divide between management theory and practice. Each researcher - Rob B. Briner, Lars Engwall, Tina...
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Reviews of existing research evidence have the potential to inform both practice and scholarship. This opportunity is currently not being fully realized in management and organization studies due to the limitations of traditional methods of review, which fail to identify clearly what is known and not known about a given topic. For practitioners, sy...
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Although goal setting is a common organizational practice, studies concerning goal setting have almost exclusively been carried out in experimental settings. It may therefore be erroneous to assume that the relationships found to exist in controlled settings will hold true within organizations. Goal difficulty and participation in the goal setting...
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1 The idea of evidence-based HR (EBHR) has emerged in business schools, originally in the US, over the past few years. It has been strongly influenced by evidence-based approaches to other disciplines - especially medicine - and is a direct development from the emerging concept of evidence-based management. 2 EBHR advocates practitioners using the...
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Two simple non-linear techniques are shown to be useful for understanding the dynamics of affect, symptoms, social interaction experience and cognitive performance. The techniques are justified by arguments derived from chaos theory, and demonstrated using data from an intensive time sampling study in which 30 subjects completed a set of self-ratin...
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This study tested the mediating role of violation in the relationship between breach and both affective and continuance commitment and the extent to which this mediating role is moderated by exchange imbalance amongst a sample of 103 sales personnel. Results suggest that violation mediated the relationship between breach and commitment. Also, resul...
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Our focal article sought to promote discussion of evidence-based approaches to practice in industrial–organizational (I–O) psychology. It did so by describing the meanings and origins of evidence-based practice, evaluating the extent to which I–O psychology practice is currently evidence-based, and considering the role of systematic reviews in prom...
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Evidence-based practice is now well established in several fields including medicine, nursing, and social policy. This article seeks to promote discussion of whether the practice of industrial–organizational (I–O) psychologists is evidence based and what is needed to make I–O psychology an evidence-based discipline. It first reviews the emergence o...
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This book is the first to provide a comprehensive and critical overview of what is now the major way of trying to understand the employment relationship - the concept of the psychological contract. Written contracts often specify very little in terms of the important details about what we are prepared to do for our employer and what we want back in...
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Current approaches to work stress do not address in detail the mental processes by which work events cause unpleasant affect. We propose a cognitive account that incorporates: (1) the distinction between controlled and automatic information processing; (2) the categorization of emotionally relevant stimuli; (3) the role of mental models in coping c...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how ethnicity remains relevant to the workplace experience of minority ethnic graduate employees in contemporary British organizations. Design/methodology/approach – Qualitative interviews were conducted with 30 British Black Caribbean graduate employees drawn from a range of public and private-sec...
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The term evidence-based management (EBMgt) is relatively new, though the idea of using research evidence to help make managerial decisions is not. In this paper we identify and clarify a number of common misconceptions about EBMgt. Rather than a single rigid method, EBMgt is a family of approaches that support decision making. It is something done...
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Purpose – The psychological contract is defined as a perceived exchange agreement of promissory obligations between employee and organization. Most approaches to this concept ignore the role of context in shaping its features. However, others have pointed out the need to evaluate the features of the construct within the context in which it is studi...
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The 24th volume in this prestigious series of annual volumes, the International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2009 includes scholarly, thoroughly researched, and state–of–the–art overviews of developments across a wide range of topics in industrial and organizational psychology. An international team of highly respected contrib...
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The aim of this paper is to consider some of the desirable and likely future directions of organisational psychology research into emotion at work. We do so by identifying and discussing some current limitations of the field. Along with other observers we argue that although the field has grown quickly this expansion has not always led to an increa...
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The purpose of the study was to address several of the limitations of work-non-work research by adopting a qualitative diary methodology which explored insiders' accounts of both the positive and negative aspects of work-non-work relationships and examined the role of context in shaping such relationships. Daily diary data on work-non-work events a...
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IntroductionThe Practice BackgroundThe Research Background The Future for Evidence-based Practice in HRM?The Vision of an Evidence-based Approach to HRM PracticeReferences
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Research into the role of ethnicity in behaviour in US organizations has been the subject of several reviews. However no such review of British research has thus far been undertaken. Fifty-four years' worth of selected occupational psychology, organizational behaviour and human resource management journals were therefore reviewed to identify the nu...
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A critical evaluation of the organizational psychology research on the experience of emotion at work was undertaken by examining the extent to which research has characteristics appropriate to basic psychological ap- proaches to emotion. Five characteristics were identified covering defini- tions, use of theory, design, and methods. A range of edit...
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The majority of studies investigating psychological contract breach ask participants to indicate the degree of unfulfillment of an organization's commitment to its employer obligations. However, very little systematic evidence exists about what participants understand by 'unfulfillment'. This study sought to investigate this aspect. Using a series...
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Research into emotion at work and research into well-being at work are similar in that they are both interested in people's feelings at work. However, these two fields are different in many important respects including the disciplines involved, the type of research questions addressed, the methods used, and the level of critical thinking. There is...
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The main aim of this paper is to make the case for why a fundamental reappraisal rather than incremental development of work stress and coping theory is required. In order to do this we present, in simplified form, some of the basic tenets of theory in this field. These tenets are questioned and their limitations identified in two ways. The first w...
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We examine whether attainment of goals at work is associated with enhanced affective well-being and whether attainment of personally more important goals has a stronger association with affective well-being. Data were collected from call-centre staff using a daily diary for 2 weeks. Results indicate that daily attainment of work goals is associated...
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Tackling workplace stress: a method for identifying the best available evidence on policy questions for the UK Health and Safety Executive.
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Research findings comparing the work attitudes of full-time and part-time employees have been inconsistent and inconclusive. Furthermore, empirical studies have tended to be atheoretical, and there are few convincing psychological explanations to explain differences where found. This article tests the psychological contract as an explanatory framew...
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A cognitive mapping method was used to elicit mental models of psychosocial hazards at work. First, an outline of the theoretical basis of a mental model approach to psychosocial risk assessment is presented. We then demonstrate how a cognitive mapping method was used as an assessment tool for representing mental models of psychosocial hazards at w...
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The psychological contract has been viewed as an explanatory framework for understanding the employment relationship, and is regarded by some researchers as central in understanding employee attitudes and behavior. Despite the importance ascribed to the psychological contract, it remains theoretically underdeveloped and has received limited empiric...
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In this chapter, the authors consider three key aspects of emotion that influence well-being and behaviour at work: the ways in which people experience emotions (such as feeling angry, embarrassed, excited or proud), the ways in which they express their emotions, and the ways in which they manage their own and other people's emotions. (PsycINFO Dat...
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Work environments appear to have both positive and negative impacts on the psychological well-being of workers. This paper reviews a number of models and theories that have addressed this issue. First, those aspects of the psychological work environment, which are thought to be most relevant to well-being, are described. Second, a number of models...
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Health and safety legislation now requires organizations to undertake risk assessments for psychosocial hazards in the workplace. Despite this, there is relatively little guidance on what constitutes a psychosocial risk assessment and how one should be conducted. The approaches that do exist are not without problems. This paper examines some of the...
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The six articles on occupational mental health in this edition of Occupational Medicine suggest that, while there is much activity in both research and practice, it is not always clear that what is produced is as useful or effective as we would wish. There are certainly many ways of developing the field but here we will consider three that seem mos...

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