Roy Sijbom

University of Amsterdam | UVA · Department of Work and Organizational Psychology

The aim of this three-study report was to validate the Dutch version of the promotive and prohibitive voice scale and to further embed the constructs of promotive and prohibitive voice within their nomological network. Promotive voice refers to the expression of suggestions for improving work practices, whereas prohibitive voice refers to the expre...

The paper describes the study design, research questions and methods of a large, international intervention project aimed at improving employee mental health and well-being in SMEs and public organisations. The study is innovative in multiple ways. First, it goes beyond the current debate on whether individual-or organisational-level interventions...

Voiced suggestions for improvement and constructive change (i.e., voiced creative ideas) by employees are important for organizations. In order to reap the benefits of these ideas, leaders need to be receptive. Drawing on achievement goal theory and approach-inhibition theory of power, we examined the joint effects of leader achievement goals and p...

This study seeks to advance theory on the motivational underpinnings of striving for challenge. We propose and empirically demonstrate that challenging job experiences can be meaningfully subdivided into private challenging job experiences (private challenges) and public challenging job experiences (public challenges). Drawing on achievement goal t...

Objective: Burnout has primarily been examined from an individual’s perspective without taking the broader environmental context into account. The authors applied an integrative multilevel perspective and investigated the influence of leaders’ motivational strivings on employee burnout. In two multi-source studies, we investigated relationships bet...

We explore how the impact of seeking feedback from different sources (i.e., feedback source variety) on employee creativity is shaped by perceptions of the work environment. Specifically, we argue that two contextual factors, namely, performance dynamism (Study 1) and creative time pressure (Study 2), moderate the relationship between feedback sour...

The purpose of this research was to examine the joint impact of leader achievement goals and hierarchical position of the voicer of creative ideas (subordinate vs. superior) on the extent to which leaders (intent to) integrate these voiced creative ideas with their own ideas (integrative idea management). In a scenario-based survey (study 1; N = 18...

We review three articles in which we examined how leader’s achievement goals affect their reactions to creative ideas voiced by their employees. Across a series of studies, we expected and found that leaders pursuing performance goals (to do better than others) tend to be less receptive and more opposing to voiced creative ideas than leaders pursui...

Leaders’ reactions to radical creative ideas voiced by employees: The role of leaders’ achievement goals Leaders’ reactions to radical creative ideas voiced by employees: The role of leaders’ achievement goals We review three articles in which we examined how leaders’ achievement goals affect their reactions to creative ideas voiced by their employ...

In dit artikel geven we een overzicht van meerdere studies waarin is onderzocht hoe prestatiedoelen van leidinggevenden van invloed zijn op de wijze waarop zij reage‐ ren op creatieve ideeën die worden aangedragen door medewerkers. Meer specifiek laten we in een reeks van studies zien dat leidinggevenden met performancedoelen (het beter doen dan an...

Organizational researchers have long been interested in the motivational underpinnings of burnout in organizations. In this article, we integrate organizational research on the role of leader behavior in burnout with achievement goal theory, and test the theoretical idea that leaders´ mastery goals buffer the negative effect of employee performance...

In this study, we examined the joint impact of feedback source diversity and experienced creative time pressure on creativity. On the basis of a sample of 186 employees and 23 supervisors from a hospital, we found that the nature of the relation between feedback source diversity and creativity depends on employees’ experienced creative time pressur...

We identified leaders’ achievement goals and composition of creative input as important factors that can clarify when and why leaders are receptive to, and supportive of, subordinates’ creative input. As hypothesized, in two experimental studies, we found that relative to mastery goal leaders, performance goal leaders were less receptive to subordi...

In the present research we investigated when and why leaders tend to oppose or adopt radical creative ideas voiced by their subordinates. In a field study (Study 1, N = 127) we showed that leaders’ performance goals were positively related to their tendency to oppose radical creative ideas, whereas leaders’ mastery goals were positively related to...

We examined the joint impact of leaders' achievement goals and position power on their integrative management of creative ideas delivered by a subordinate or a superior. In two studies, we found that relative to mastery goal leaders and low-power performance goal leaders, high-power performance goal leaders were less likely to integrate creative id...

The present experimental research examined the impact of leaders’ achievement goals on their reactions to creative input provided by their subordinates. In Experiment 1, performance goal leaders were found to be less receptive to subordinates’ creative input than mastery goal leaders. In Experiment 2, we demonstrated that only when subordinates’ in...