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Working from home (WFH) has become increasingly common, and its impact on job performance is particularly interesting to researchers. Prior research has established a positive correlation between remote work and job performance, but the underlying mechanisms still need to be fully understood. This diary study addresses this issue by applying the Jo...
The focus of existing research on perceived organizational support (POS) has largely been concentrated at the individual-level, leaving an understudied gap at a higher unit-level of analysis. This study aims to fill this gap by examining the multilevel relationship between employee POS and job satisfaction, emphasizing the moderating role of unit-l...
Employment quality is a social determinant of employee health. However, little is known about the psychological mechanisms underlying this relationship. In this study, we investigated whether work engagement and affective job insecurity mediated the relationship between three employment quality indicators: type of contract (0. temporary vs. 1. perm...
Women’s representation in the workforce is increasing. However, we still do not know how, why, and when the proportion of females in work teams is related to team performance. Based on Social Role Theory and Congruence Theory, the purpose of the study was to ascertain whether the relationship between the proportion of women in work teams and team p...
Testing two competing hypotheses based on different theories (i.e., the theory of career mobility and social exchange theory), this study examines whether organizational size enhances or buffers the negative relationship between perceived overqualification (i.e., having more education or qualifications, skills, and/or experience than one’s job requ...
In this study we analyze whether the university contribution to the development of generic competences is related to the employment status of graduates six months after graduation. Specifically, we propose that there are two mediating mechanisms in the relationship: 1) a sequential mechanism that involves two mediators: the generic competences acqu...
We tested a mediation model of the influence of teacher-student relationship quality on student group performance in a higher-education context where a group-oriented learning approach is implemented. Specifically, we posit that the relationship between teacher-student relationship quality at the group level and group performance is mediated by pos...
Measurement invariance analyses across gender groups are a prerequisite for meaningful gender group comparisons. However, measurement invariance studies are typically carried out without a priori hypotheses about expected differences in item responses, which would contribute to understanding the way different gender groups interpret the constructs....
Multilevel methods allow researchers to investigate relationships that expand across levels (e.g., individuals, teams, and organizations). The popularity of these methods for studying organizational phenomena has increased in recent decades. Methodologists have examined how these methods work under different conditions, providing an empirical base...
Murphy (2021) argues that the field of Industrial-Organizational (I/O) Psychology needs to pay more attention to descriptive statistics (“Table 1”; e.g., M, SD, reliability, correlations) when reporting and interpreting results. We agree that authors need to present a clear and transparent description of their data and that descriptive statistics a...
Labour market uncertainty makes difficult to get (and keep) a high-quality job even for graduate students. Moreover, this situation has been worsened due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this study is to test the influence that personal employability has on maintaining (or being able to find a new) high-quality job in a sample of young universi...
Considering the motivational path of the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model, this study investigates a multistep process by which contextual job resources might have an indirect effect on idea implementation. Among 187 shop floor employees of a manufacturing company, we found support for a model whereby job control has an indirect effect, over a 5-...
Although the importance of leadership for innovation processes has been acknowledged, the understanding of the relationships between leadership styles and levels of innovation in work teams is still limited. This study among team managers and team members of 133 Spanish bank branches (i.e., work teams) investigated whether the influence of charisma...
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The goals of this study were to ascertain whether a specific leadership behavior (developing subordinates) is related to employees’ health complaints and determine some of the underlying mechanisms involved. The hypothesized relationships were investigated in a sample composed of 538 employees working in 170 work-units of a public regional health s...
In applied organizational research, where economy of scale is often a crucial factor in successful assessment, ultra-short measures are often needed. This study investigates the psychometric properties of the Reduced Affective Well-Being Scale (RAWS), an ultra-short measure of positive and negative affect in the workplace. This 6-item ultra-short v...
Se trata de un capítulo de un libro en el que se explica la manera en la cual se puede operacionalizar la compososición demográfica de un equipo, en concreto, se muestra la evolución en la medición de la heterogeneidad o diversidad demográfica de los grupos o equipos de trabajo, así como las diferentes y más adecuadas formas de medir esta heterogen...
and Methodist of São Paulo (Brazil). He was responsible for more than 30 research projects with a length of time larger than two years, supported by local, Spanish, and European agencies. These projects had goals related to methodological development and knowledge production. They covered a wide range of topics such as well-being at work, burnout a...
In a sample of 60 branches of a bank, we examine the influence of age-based faultlines on team performance. Specifically, we propose a model with four mediational paths in the age-based faultline-team performance link. Using a time-lagged design with three data-collection points, we found that task conflict, team reflexivity, and negative team mood...
This study examines predictors and outcomes of intra‐individual mood variability in the workplace. During a 3‐month weekly study, we collected data on personality (extraversion and neuroticism), positive and negative workplace mood, and job performance from 357 participants. Path analysis revealed a positive relationship between neuroticism and int...
Some organizations collaborate with other partner organizations to reach common goals, establishing interorganizational networks. The governance of the network is often enacted by an interorganizational governing team composed of the directors or top managers of the partner firms. This team plans, manages, and supervises the advancement of the netw...
Based on contradictory arguments about whether the frequency of the interactions between team managers and the teams they manage is positive or negative for teams, we hypothesize a curvilinear relationship. Focusing on positive team mood and based on the leadership literature and the conservation of resources theory, we hypothesize an inverted‐U‐sh...
Human behavior takes place in different contexts (e.g., organizations, schools, families, sports teams, and communities) whose properties (e.g., climate, culture, cohesion, leadership, communication networks, and structure) influence human behavior. To estimate this influence, researchers need appropriate methods that avoid the problems associated...
We investigated whether the influence of LMX differentiation (the extent to which the quality of the leader-member relationships within a work unit varies) on work unit commitment is mediated by support climate. We tested this mediated relationship in a sample composed of 30 health care units. The results obtained showed that LMX differentiation me...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to gain a better understanding of the antecedents of the quality of graduates’ jobs when they enter the job market after university graduation.
Design/methodology/approach
Survey data collected from 173 Spanish bachelor and master’s degree university graduates at two time points (two months before and six month...
In this article, three important issues in organizational multilevel research are discussed and clarified, namely: (a) The interpretation of "cross-level direct effects" in theoretical and research multilevel models, (b) the specification of the emergence processes involved in higher-level constructs, and (c) the sample size recommendations for usi...
University graduates’ overqualification (i.e., having more education, qualification and/or skills than one’s job requires) has important negative consequences. However, much less is known about its antecedents. This represents an important gap in the literature. In order to fill this gap, the goal of this study is to test a mediational model on the...
Organizations are multilevel systems. Most organizational phenomena are multilevel in nature, and their understanding involves variables (e.g., antecedents and consequences) that reside at different levels. The investigation of these phenomena requires appropriate analytical methods: multilevel modeling. These techniques are becoming increasingly p...
We review the literature on organizational climate and culture paying specific attention to articles published in the Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP) since its first volume in 1917. The article traces the history of the 2 constructs though JAP has been far more important for climate than culture research. We distinguish 4 main periods: the pre-...
We investigated whether a set of indicators of the employability dimensions proposed by Fugate, Kinicki, and Asforth (i.e., career identity, personal adaptability, and human and social capital) are related to university graduates’ employment status and five indicators of the quality of their jobs (pay, hierarchical level, vertical and horizontal ma...
This study examines the influence of education level diversity on team communication quality and team performance. Specifically, we propose a moderated mediation model with team communication quality as a mediator in the relationship between education level diversity and team performance, and with innovation team climate as a moderator in this medi...
OBJETIVO Estimar la relación entre la calidad de la relación tutor-residente y la implicación en el trabajo en un grupo de Residentes de Medicina de Familia y Comunitaria MATERIAL Y MÉTODO Diseño transversal con una única recogida de datos mediante cuestionarios de auto-informe. La población objeto de estudio está compuesta por 63 Residentes de Med...
We investigated whether the number of innovations implemented in work teams is positively related to team task conflict and negative team mood, and whether the latter variables mediate the relationship between the number of innovations implemented and aggregate job satisfaction and team performance. The results obtained in a sample of 89 bank branc...
The present study examines whether teams’ friendship and communication network density are related to individual innovative behaviours (IIBs: idea generation, suggestion making, idea promotion and idea implementation). The study sample was composed of 28 teams comprising 101 members. The results obtained by means of multilevel structural equations...
This chapter reviews the literature on the relationships among organizational culture, LMX quality and climate. It summarizes the knowledge accumulated to date, points out the limitations of the studies conducted, and suggests themes and questions for future research. Finally, a heuristic model is proposed that integrates the three constructs.
The aim of this work is to test the role of the level of generic competences developed during University studies and the professional and practice orientation of instruction (PPOI) in the prediction of graduates’ initial vertical fit and vertical fit change over an 8-year period. The study sample comprised 334 graduates who finished their degrees t...
Research on faultlines – hypothetical dividing lines splitting a team into homogeneous subgroups based on team members’ attributes – has produced several meta-analyses, reviews, and algorithms for faultline and subgroup detection. To help navigate this complexity, we summarize the current theories underlying faultline and subgroup research. We also...
We investigated whether climate uniformity (the pattern of climate perceptions of organizational support within the team) is related to task conflict, team communication quality, and team performance. We used a sample composed of 141 bank branches and collected data at 3 time points. The results obtained showed that, after controlling for aggregate...
La estructura de muchos constructos bipolares se estudia habitualmente mediante escalas contrabalanceadas tipo Likert. Las respuestas a estas escalas son sometidas a análisis factorial, pero con frecuencia, la estructura factorial descubierta no es bipolar, sino que cada dimensión supuestamente bipolar se descompone en dos factores monopolares. Est...
Test of measurement invariance across translated versions of questionnaires is a critical prerequisite to comparing scores on the different versions. In this study, we used exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM) as an alternative approach to evaluate the measurement invariance of the Spanish version of the Physical Self-Description Questio...
Although the relationship between climate and leadership has been taken into account from different research and theoretical approaches, there is a lack of effort in the development of conceptual framework to understand the relationship between the development processes in both constructs. Grounding on the interactionist approach to the formation o...
This chapter reviews the meaning of strength in the organizational culture and climate literatures and then
analyzes empirical research conducted on culture and climate strength. It summarizes the knowledge accumulated to date about these topics, points out the limitations of the studies conducted, and suggests lines for future research. Finally, i...
Leader-member Exchange (LMX) theory has been shown to be one of the most compelling theories for understanding the effects of leadership on organizational behavior. This theory proposes that leaders establish differentiated relationships with each of their subordinates according to the exchanges produced between them. Recently, the concept of LMX d...
Introduction
Inter-firm collaborations (i.e. Joint Ventures, Alliances and Consortia) require a “control room” to coordinate and manage inter-firm tasks. The Shared Participant Governance (SPG) (Provan and Kenis, 2008) is an inter-firm governance system that requires a team composed of entrepreneurs or representatives from the involved firms. This...
Research shows that educational-job mismatches upon entry into the labor market have negative consequences for later adult career outcomes. Based on the career mobility and assignment theories, although the occurrence of educational mismatch is considered temporary, it has diverse effects on labour outcomes over time. Considering this, the purpose...
A longitudinal study was conducted among 93 nurses to determine the role of comparing oneÕs performance with that of oneÕs colleagues in the increase versus decrease of perceived relative deprivation at work over a period of one year. Relative deprivation at T2 had in-creased particularly among those high in social comparison orientation (Gibbons &...
The aim of the present study is to study the validity of affective work team climates in a sample of 33 health care work teams using a 2-wave panel data design. The results obtained showed: (1) a high level of within-team agreement regarding the studied affective variables (satisfaction and commitment) and a satisfactory degree of discrimination am...
Although the differential treatment of team members by their leader is at the heart of Leader–Member Exchange (LMX) theory, empirical studies exploring the role of within-team LMX differentiation in relation to team outcomes are still relatively scarce. This study among 269 Dutch secondary school teachers from 33 different teams tested the hypothes...
We tested whether the relationship between a team climate of support from the organization and team performance is mediated by positive team mood. Recent research has shown that this team climate facet is related to team performance, but we do not have any empirical evidence about the mechanisms involved in this relationship. The study sample was c...
Research carried out in the field of work and organisational psychology shows that work unit climate and culture are important determinants of work unit performance. We briefly summarise what we have learnt about the climate-performance relationship in work units distinct from ICUs. Then, we show how the ICU culture can be measured, and summarise r...
The authors argue that over time the difference between team members' perception of the organizational support received by the team (or team climate for organizational support) and their manager's perception of the organizational support received by the team has an effect on important outcomes and emergent states, such as team performance and team...
We propose a new conceptualization of work team climate. According to it, work team climate refers to the pattern of employees' perceptions of their team. From this conceptualization, team climate is a configurational property, where dispersion dimensions have an important role to play. We review empirical research on the antecedents and consequenc...
The objective of this study is to test the validity of the collective climate concept. It was expected that membership in collective climates was related to membership in the collectivities defined by departmental membership, hierarchical level, shift, job location and organizational tenure. The study sample was composed of 195 employees from a cen...
This article presents a case study in a savings bank in which a change of managerial culture is conducted over several years. A survey feedback was carried out where special attention was paid to subordinates' perceptions on managerial behaviours of the immediate manager. This intervention intended to stimulate and facilitate changes of managers' v...
In this study, we evaluate the role of leader charisma in fostering positive affective team climate and preventing negative affective climate. The analysis of a longitudinal database of 137 bank branches by means of hierarchical moderated regression shows that leader charisma has a stronger effect on team optimism than on team tension. In addition,...
We tested the hypothesis that the relationship between team climate and team performance is moderated by climate strength. The study sample was composed of 155 bank branches, and a two-wave panel design was implemented. We measured four team climate facets (support, innovation, goal achievement and enabling formalization). We obtained two subjectiv...
The aim of the present study was to analyse the moderator influence of psychological climate on the relationship between leader – member exchange (LMX) quality and role overload. Hierarchical regression analyses were conducted in a sample of 383 employees. Results showed that LMX quality was negatively related to role overload and that three out of...
We analysed whether relationship conflict mediates the link between task conflict and shared affect at the team level of analysis. Moreover, we tested the hypothesis that the relationship between these two types of intra-team conflict would be moderated by team members' interaction. The sample was composed of 156 bank branches. Data were gathered a...
In recent years, researchers have paid increasing attention to the idea of “climate strength”—the level of agreement about climate within a work group or organization. However, at present the literature is unclear about the extent to which climate strength is a positive attribute, and is concerned predominantly with small teams or organizational un...
We review the literature on innovation in work teams published in recent years, with the aim of identifying factors that play an important role in the innovation process. According to theoretical models and the results of empirical studies, these factors are as follows: task characteristics, external demands, team composition, various team states a...
The aim of this article is twofold. First, we synthesize and integrate the main results of the current research on work teams. Secondly, we provide a set of conclusions and suggestions for practitioners. In doing so, we focus on the explanatory models of team effectiveness built on an input-process-output approach and suggest techniques for improvi...
La validite de construction des echelles de Rizzo, House, et Lirtzman (1970) a ete fortement critiquee ces dernieres annees. Les critiques portent sur la formulation des items qui constituent ces echelles, ce qui fait que l'interpretation des echelles depend totalement de la formulation des items. Ces critiques ont favorise l'emergence d'autres mod...
Resumen: Aunque la relación entre clima y liderazgo ha sido señalada desde dis-tintas aproximaciones teóricas existe poca investigación que haya aportado un marco conceptual sólido para entender el proceso de desarrollo de ambos fenóme-nos. Partiendo de la aproximación interaccionista para la formación de clima y la teoría del intercambio líder-mie...
The present study evaluates the extent to which central categories explicitly labeled as being in the middle of the other response categories, specifically Middle Level and Sometimes, function as expected according to the integer scoring system. The assumptions are tested by means of Bock's Nominal Model in two 5-response scales. Results show that...
In this simulation study, we investigate the power and Type I error rate of a procedure based on the mean and covariance structure analysis (MACS) model in detecting differential item functioning (DIF) of graded response items with five response categories. The following factors were manipulated: type of DIF (uniform and non-uniform), DIF magnitude...
Burnout researchers have proposed that the conceptual opposites of emotional exhaustion and cynicism (the core dimensions of burnout) are vigor and dedication (the core dimensions of engagement), respectively (
[11] and [24]). We tested this proposition by ascertaining whether two sets of items, exhaustion–vigor and cynicism–dedication, were scalab...
We examined whether the relationship between psychological climate and sickness absence is moderated by gender. We expected that this relationship would be stronger among men than among women. We tested this general hypothesis using two samples of men and women nurses (made up of 114 and 189 subjects, respectively). The results obtained supported o...
The aims of this study were to investigate whether the 6 items of the Physical Appearance Scale (Marsh, Richards, Johnson, Roche, & Tremayne, 1994) show differential item functioning (DIF) across gender groups of adolescents, and to show how this can be done using the multigroup mean and covariance structure (MG-MACS) analysis model. Two samples co...
Researchers have studied whether there are classes of people who differ systematically in the way they respond to polytomous ordered scales with a middle category such as ?. The mixed-partial credit model was fitted to a number of scales of a personality questionnaire. Most of the scales fit better with the use of 2 latent subpopulations. The most...
Ambiguous response formats predict correlations from -.467 to -1 between opposite items, depending on whether the respondent's interpretation of the format is unipolar or bipolar. The authors present a procedure to investigate the proper interpretation in each case. It consists of applying nonparametric and parametric item response theory models (t...