
Stephanie C PayneTexas A&M University | TAMU · Department of Psychology
Stephanie C Payne
Doctor of Philosophy
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August 2000 - present
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Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, telework was an established discretionary practice with a considerable amount of research. However, the COVID-19 pandemic forced people who had never worked from home before to do so. Our two-wave descriptive investigation provides a historical snapshot of what approximately 400 teleworkers experienced i...
Background:
Agricultural aircraft operations are an integral part of the agricultural sector. According to the National Agriculture Aviation Association (NAAA), aerial applications are conducted in all 50 states of the U.S. and account for 28% of all treated cropland. A typical application operation consists of an operator (Part 137 certificate ho...
According to situation strength theory, organizational climate should have a stronger effect on group behavior when members’ perceptions of the climate are both unambiguous (i.e., very high or very low) and shared than when they are more ambiguous and less shared. In the organizational climate literature, this proposition is typically examined by t...
This qualitative research contributes to the telework research literature by identifying and categorizing employee motives for teleworking. Motives for telework contextualize teleworking behavior, represent proximal telework outcomes, and serve as potential boundary conditions for telework-outcome relationships. Role identity theory (Burke & Tully...
Due to well-known problems with self-ratings of job performance (e.g., inflation, weak correlation with supervisor ratings) and the challenges of collecting supervisor ratings of job performance, researchers sometimes use supervisor-perspective ratings (e.g., "how do you think your supervisor would rate your job performance?") instead. The assumpti...
As workplace ostracism detrimentally impacts employees’ job-related outcomes, it is important to understand why exclusion causes these negative outcomes to potentially mitigate its negative effects. A potential explanatory mechanism for these effects is rumination – persistent and recurring thinking that can focus on both negative and positive even...
Research studies have shown that workplace incivility is associated with numerous negative work and non-work outcomes. The underlying mechanisms explaining why workplace incivility is associated with these outcomes, as well as contextual buffers of these relationships, have received less attention. This study extends workplace incivility research b...
Introduction:
Information processing theories of workplace safety suggest that cognition is an antecedent of safety behavior. However, little research has directly tested cognitive factors as predictors of workplace safety within organizational psychology and behavior research. Counterfactuals (cognitions about "what might have been") can be funct...
Multiple theoretical stress models propose that job resources buffer against the negative impact of job demands on psychological well-being; yet, there is inconsistent empirical evidence for the buffering effect. Correspondingly, researchers have proposed a number of conceptual (e.g., individual differences) and methodological (e.g., statistical po...
The purpose of this meta-analysis was to provide a comprehensive quantitative review of research to date on the antecedents of psychological and organizational safety climate. Building upon and expanding Zohar’s conceptual model, antecedents were organized into three broad categories: situational factors, interpersonal interactions, and personal fa...
Although safety climate research has increased in recent years, persisting conceptual ambiguity
not only raises questions about what safety climate really is—as operationalized in the literature—
but also inhibits increased scientific understanding of the construct. Consequently, using
climate theory and research as a conceptual basis, we inductive...
Electronic performance management (ePM) systems have flourished and are now
used by a large percentage of US Organizations (Sierra-Cedar, 2016). Considering
the fast-paced growth of adoption, it is important to determine if these changes
are helping or hurting corresponding human resource management processes. In
the meantime, another workforce tre...
This was a panel symposium about leadership and safety.
Purpose
Safety climate researchers develop and use both general and industry-specific safety climate measures. Theories about language comprehension suggest that context facilitates meaning; however, the relative value of context-specific safety climate measures in the prediction of safety outcomes is an empirical question that has not been rigorou...
This study extends research on the antecedents of peer trust by examining team member trust relationships over time in order to examine the relative influence of both trustor and trustee individual differences on assessments of trust, as well as the mutual nature of trust. Data from 216 individuals embedded in 71 project teams were collected on thr...
The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP, Division 14 of the American Psychological Association [APA]) maintains Guidelines for Education and Training to provide guidance for the training of industrial-organizational (I-O) psychologists. The 2016/2017 revision combines separate documents for master’s- and doctoral-level traini...
This study examines the appropriateness of comparing safety climate survey responses across multiple faultlines—hypothetical dividing lines that split a group into subgroups based on one or more attributes. Using survey data from 8790 employees of a multinational chemical processing and manufacturing company from 76 work sites nested within 19 diff...
In 2002, Sylvia Ann Hewlitt published a highly cited article in Harvard Business Review claiming it was a myth that executive women could “have it all.” In 2012, Anne-Marie Slaughter responded in The Atlantic explaining why women “still can’t have it all.” Although each of these authors alludes to what having it all (HIA) means, this phrase is freq...
This chapter reviews safety climate in organizations, particularly small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs). Regardless of organizational size, the concepts relevant to understanding safety climate remain the same. However, the way that safety climate develops, is managed and is affected by unsafe incidents may differ depending on organizational size. Th...
Adler et al. (2016) raise some controversial issues about whether performance rating systems should be eliminated or not. We strongly believe that the decision to do away with performance ratings is premature because more research needs to be done, as suggested by “the better questions” that Adler et al. listed at the end of the focal article. We p...
Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to examine how individual differences influence employees’ attitude toward organizational change. Specifically, the present study examined how and why proactive personality, dispositional resistance to change, and change self-efficacy influence employees’ perceived fairness about the organizational change.
De...
A unique survey archive of U.S. Army officers’ affective commitment and continuance commitment over a 4-year time period presents an opportunity to test multiple research questions about the extent to which organizational commitment profiles change and their relationship with the occurrence and timing of turnover. These results begin to reconcile c...
Despite relatively equal proportions of boys and girls enrolled in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) courses during grade school, women are significantly underrepresented in STEM degrees and occupations. Advances in STEM are critical to our nation’s health and security, and diversification of the STEM workforce is believed to enha...
Whereas a number of longitudinal studies have examined organizational commitment (OC), a more comprehensive examination of the forms of consistency in OC has never been conducted. Consistent with the dispositional view of commitment (Becker, 1960), adaptation-level theory (Helson, 1948), and opponent process theory (Solomon & Corbit, 1973, 1974), a...
This study extends previous research on peer trust by tracking project teams over time in order to examine the relative influence of trustor and trustee individual differences on initial and subsequent assessments of trust. Specifically, we propose that the trustee’s general mental ability, knowledge, agreeableness, and openness to experience will...
This study investigates safety climate as both a leading (climate → incident) and a lagging (incident → climate) indicator of safety-critical incidents. This study examines the "shelf life" of a safety climate assessment and its relationships with incidents, both past and future, by examining series of incident rates in order to determine when thes...
Flexible work arrangements ( FWA s) are widely implemented for organizational purposes including recruitment. Theoretically, these arrangements alter temporal and physical boundaries around work. However, the time and place dimensions are frequently confounded in research, making the separate and joint effect of each on various outcomes unclear. To...
This research investigated how much and in what direction newcomer psychological contracts changed during the first year of employment and the extent to which change was a function of a psychological contract breach. These issues were investigated using a sample of 88 organizational newcomers with diverse job duties/titles, prior experience, and ag...
Given the prevalence and continued growth of teleworking, future teleworkers and their managers need to be informed about the challenges that may hinder effective teleworking and potential strategies for overcoming those challenges. Quantitative and qualitative survey data were collected from 86 high performing teleworkers and their respective supe...
Building on the conservation of resources model, the notion of cognitive appraisal, and common models of stress effects, the authors test the effects of exposure to stressors (both initially and over time) using cross-sectional and longitudinal data, respectively. Data were collected from 280 U.S. Army soldiers at three time points over six months....
According to the Internal-External Efficacy model, self-efficacy is an insufficient explanation for self-regulated behavior because it ignores the influence of external resources. Applying this theory of motivation to the prediction of creative performance, the extent to which means efficacy or the belief in the utility of external resources predic...
Employee turnover is a major concern because of its cost to organizations. Although theory supports the influence of nonwork factors on turnover, our understanding of the degree to which nonwork factors relate to actual turnover behavior is not well developed. Using a sample of 5505 U.S. Army officers, we assessed the extent to which spouse career...
Although safety climate is a multilevel construct that has demonstrated meaningful relationships with worker safety behavior and safety incidents at both individual and aggregate levels, most researchers still fail to take a multilevel approach when examining the construct. Because of this, it is currently unknown whether safety climate differs psy...
According to Kram’s mentor role theory, satisfaction with mentoring and mentorship quality are key indicators of effective and successful mentoring. We contribute to mentoring research by demonstrating the relative importance of mentorship quantity, mentorship quality, and satisfaction with mentoring to the prediction of job satisfaction, affective...
Employee satisfaction with performance appraisal (PA) plays a large role in the perceived effectiveness of PA. We examined the joint effects of feedback sign (positive or negative) and three goal orientation dimensions (learning, performance-prove, performance-avoid) on PA satisfaction. Results revealed the negative relationship between negative fe...
Hom, Mitchell, Lee, and Griffeth (2012) presented an extensive review of employee turnover research, reconceptualized the turnover criterion to include multiple destinations, and proposed to expand the predictor domain. They illuminated the multiple destinations employees pursue following turnover. By crossing desire to remain and volitional contro...
Individual climate perceptions (i.e., psychological climates) are often aggregated to form group-level climates without considering the equivalence of the meaning of climate within groups. Confirming perceptual equivalence across faultlines – within-group dividing lines that can create subgroups based on the alignment of group member attributes (La...
Purpose
The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which cognitive and affective trust mediate the service provider personality–service quality relationship, controlling for customer personality.
Design/Methodology/Approach
Hypotheses were tested using a matched sample of 249 customer-service provider dyads.
Results
Service provider s...
This study examined how Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and its components influence job performance. BPD is theorized to adversely affect the generation of task strategies in the workplace which results in poor job performance. In this study, 180 college students completed the Borderline Scale from the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI-B...
This study examined the impact of the British Petroleum (BP) Baker Panel Report, reviewing the March 2005 BP-Texas City explosion, on the field of process safety.
Three hundred eighty-four subscribers of a process safety listserv responded to a survey two years after the BP Baker Report was published.
Results revealed respondents in the field of pr...
Building on Hobfoll's (1989, 2001) conservation of resources theory, we posit childcare is an essential resource to working parents. In addition to previously demonstrated childcare satisfaction (CCS) dimensions, we propose and demonstrate empirical support for a convenience dimension of CCS. Satisfaction with caregiver convenience refers to a pare...
In order to evaluate the leading and lagging effects of process safety climate on incidents, we correlated safety climate survey data with organizational safety records from before and after the survey time period. We obtained data from a large, multinational organization with manufacturing operations involving a number of complex processes, chemic...
This study examined the relationship between the organizational tenure of employees at a given worksite and safety climate strength (i.e., the variability of employees' perceptions of the policies, procedures, and practices regarding workplace safety). Results revealed that average worksite tenure was related to safety climate strength such that hi...
Our purpose in this study was to meta-analytically address several theoretical and empirical issues regarding the relationships between safety climate and injuries. First, we distinguished between extant safety climate-->injury and injury-->safety climate relationships for both organizational and psychological safety climates. Second, we examined s...
This paper theorizes how and why safety climate can be conceived as both a leading and a lagging indicator of safety events (i.e., accidents, injuries). When safety climate is conceived as a leading indicator, a prospective design is utilized and safety climate data are correlated with accidents/injuries that occur in the future. When safety climat...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to compare employee reactions to the use of an online performance appraisal (PA) system to the traditional paper‐and‐pencil (P&P) approach.
Design/methodology/approach
A quasi‐experimental study is conducted comparing the reactions of a group of 83 employees evaluate with a traditional P&P PA instrument to the...
In this study, the authors contribute insight into the temporal nature of work attitudes, examining how job satisfaction changes across the 1st year of employment for a sample of organizational newcomers. The authors examined factors related to job change (i.e., voluntary turnover, prior job satisfaction) and newcomer experiences (i.e., fulfillment...
In March 2005, the BP Texas City refinery experienced an explosion that killed 15 and injured 170 employees. As a result of this catastrophic event, the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) recommended that an independent panel assess BP North America's safety management, corporate safety oversights, and corporate safety cultur...
Workplace accidents cost organizations and the economy billions of dollars annually, disabling and injuring millions of employees. Employee attitudes toward safety have been shown to relate to safe workplace behavior. In an effort to determine what contributes to stronger employee attitudes toward safety, we examined the relationships between safet...
Extreme response style (ERS) refers to the tendency to overuse the endpoints of Likert-type scales. This study examined the extent to which ERS is accounted for by measures of personality, specifically, intolerance of ambiguity, simplistic thinking, and decisiveness. One hundred and sixteen pairs of undergraduate students and one of their respectiv...
a b s t r a c t We sought to determine the extent to which one's beliefs about the relationship between an employee and an organization at the start of employment influence subsequent social-ization activities. The balance of employee exchange relationships, employee perceptions of both their own obligations and the employers' obligations, were col...
Research examining the influence of nonwork issues on work-related outcomes has flourished. Often, however, the breadth of the interrole conflict construct varies widely between studies. To determine if the breadth of the interrole conflict measure makes a difference, the current study compares the criterion-related validity of scores yielded by a...
Performance Management DefinedExtent of UsePerformance Management Practices and BehaviorA Theory of MotivationImplications from the TheoryPerformance Management Practices and the Motivation TheoryMore Complex PracticesConclusions
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This study examined proximal traits as mediators of the relationships between distal traits and leadership effectiveness. Specifically, we examined goal orientation, leadership self-efficacy, and motivation to lead (MTL) as antecedents of leadership effectiveness, after controlling for the Big Five personality traits. We tested our hypotheses with...
The authors present an empirical review of the literature concerning trait and state goal orientation (GO). Three dimensions of GO were examined: learning, prove performance, and avoid performance along with presumed antecedents and proximal and distal consequences of these dimensions. Antecedent variables included cognitive ability, implicit theor...
Recent research has suggested that scores on measures of cognitive ability, measures of Conscientiousness, and interview scores are positively correlated with job performance. There remains, however, a question of incremental validity: To what extent do interviews predict above and beyond cognitive ability and Conscientiousness? This question was a...
Purpose
To conduct a content analysis of the portrayal of Frederick W. Taylor in management and psychology textbooks to reveal differences both within and across disciplines.
Design/methodology/approach
Forty‐four textbooks from six sub‐disciplines within management and psychology were content analyzed for the amount and accuracy of the material p...
The relationship among job satisfaction, affective commitment, service-oriented organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs), customer satisfaction, and customer loyalty were examined for a sample of 249 hairstylists and 1 of their corresponding customers. Employee satisfaction was positively related to service-oriented OCBs, customer satisfaction,...
This paper describes a pilot study examining the influence of individual difference characteristics and safety climate on safety-related decision making. Safety climate is defined as employee perceptions of the policies, practices, and procedures concerning safety at their organization. Safety climate can be understood by examining employee percept...
Over 1,000 U.S. Army officers responded to two surveys over a two-year period. Results indicated that mentoring was positively related to affective commitment and continuance commitment and negatively related to "turnover behavior.". The relationship with affective commitment was moderated by the conditions of mentorship (supervisory versus nonsupe...
This research applied the construct equivalence approach for deriving and empirically validating analog measures based on data not originally designed to measure the theoretical constructs of interest. In this application, subject matter experts agreed on questionnaire items from a longitudinal database that fitMeyer and Allen's (1991) definitions...
Archival data present opportunities to test important research questions. Unfortunately, archival data do not always include validated measures of the psychological constructs that may be of interest to researchers. In this article, the authors describe how the construct equivalence approach can be applied to organizational archival data to derive...
Theoretical models have assumed that efficacy beliefs operate similarly (i.e., are homologous) across levels of analysis (e.g., Lindsley, Brass, & Thomas, 1995), yet limited empirical support exists to confirm this supposition. This research empirically tested a multilevel model to determine if individual-level and team-level relations involving ex...
Theoretical models have assumed that efficacy beliefs operate similarly (i.e., are homologous) across levels of analysis, yet limited empirical support exists to confirm this supposition. The current research empirically tested a multilevel model to determine if individual-level and team-level relationships involving experience, achievement motivat...
The authors examined the effectiveness of error training for trainees with different levels of cognitive ability, openness to experience, or conscientiousness. Participants (N = 181) were randomly assigned to control, error-encouragement, or error-avoidance conditions and trained to perform a decision-making simulation. Declarative knowledge, task...
The authors examined the effectiveness of error training for trainees with different levels of cognitive ability, openness to experience, or conscientiousness. Participants (N = 181) were randomly assigned to control, error-encouragement, or error-avoidance conditions and trained to perform a decision-making simulation. Declarative knowledge, task...
Little dispute exists with regard to the conceptual and practical contributions of team mental models (TMMs) to team-related research and applications, yet the measurement of TMMs poses great challenges for researchers and practitioners. Borrowing from performance appraisal practices, this article presents a new method for assessing TMMs that is us...
The Army has assembled an archive of survey data for use in studies and analyses on practical issues pertinent to the career decisions of officers. This effort applied the "analog" approach for empirically deriving and validating measures in order to expand the value of the archive for longitudinal research on organizational commitment. Accordingly...
Describes an approach to developing and evaluating a human-performance measurement system designed to assess training needs. It has been argued by J. A. Cannon-Bowers and E. Salas (1997) and by J. H. Johnston et al (1997) that such a system must describe, diagnose, and evaluate processes that lead to effective outcomes. The present authors performe...
This study examined the effects of having experienced negative events related to the purpose of a training program on learning and retention. Participants were 32 private pilots who participated in an assertiveness-training study. The purpose of the training was to prevent aviation accidents caused by human error. Structured telephone interviews we...
Typescript. Thesis (Ph. D.)--George Mason University, 2000. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 96-106). Vita: leaf 185.