Elizabeth McClean’s research while affiliated with Cornell College and other places

... In 2021, Business Linkedin (2021) reported that problem-solving, communication, teamwork, and strategic thinking are the most valuable skills emphasized by Chinese firms when considering internal promotion and mobility. Mirroring these evaluations, a stream of research within occupational psychology has investigated proactivity (Axtell et al., 2000;Emich et al., 2024;Kiss et al., 2022;Parker et al., 2006;Wang et al., 2024), including its effects on well-being (Fay & Hüttges, 2017) and its mediating role in the effects of high-performance work systems (Zhu et al., 2023). ...

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Awareness of age-related change and proactivity at work: the mediating roles of future time perspective and goal setting

... The voicer may realize that coworkers would have received the attention and resources if they had presented the same ideas earlier to the supervisor. Third, after one employee's voice is endorsed, coworkers are often required to make work adjustments to adapt to new practices (Brykman & Raver, 2023;Burris et al., 2023). These adjustments may involve shifts in responsibilities, changes in processes, or additional efforts, creating a disparity between the voicer and their coworkers in terms of status, power, and influence. ...

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Does Voice Endorsement by Supervisors Enhance or Constrain Voicer’s Personal Initiative? Countervailing Effects via Feeling Pride and Feeling Envied

... However, new status holders may interpret or appraise this event differently and experience distinct types of pride (i.e., authentic pride and hubristic pride) and this interpretation or appraisal is determined by contextual factors. That is, given that status is socially determined and conferred by others in a team (Berger, Cohen, & Zelditch Jr, 1972;Correll & Ridgeway, 2006;Hays et al., 2022), how positive status change is interpreted is likely to be affected by the context of the team (Bunderson, 2003;Campbell, Liao, Chuang, Zhou, & Dong, 2017;Kim & Wiesenfeld, 2017;Kim, McClean, Doyle, Podsakoff, Lin, & Woodruff, 2021;Swaab, Schaerer, Anicich, Ronay, & Galinsky, 2014). Building on the above, we use the two-facet model of pride to recognize status differentiation as a crucial contextual factor that significantly affects how new status holders interpret their status changes. ...

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Becoming Better: When and Why Positive Status Change Induces Prosocial Behavior Versus Self-Interested Behavior

... People associate communal behaviors (e.g., friendly, warm) with women, and some agentic behaviors (e.g., ambitious, dominant) with men (Eagly et al., 2020). According to backlash theory (Rudman et al., 2012), when a woman acts in a counter-stereotypical, agentic manner (including self-promotion, ambition, and dominance), she may experience a backlash effect in which people respond punitively to her behavior, such as by evaluating her negatively (Gabriel et al., 2018;McClean et al., 2022;Rudman, 1998;Rudman & Glick, 1999. In particular, people incur backlash for actions that threaten the traditional status hierarchy in which men, because of their gender, have higher status than women (Ridgeway, 2011). ...

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Silenced by Incivility

... This collaborative spirit fosters a positive environment, encouraging all members to contribute actively to the team's success and effectiveness. Team members must exhibit the flexibility to thrive in collaborative settings where success is attained through cooperation and shared goals, rather than through competition and individual aims [33]. Consequently, the attributes of a construction project design team can be viewed as a vital factor in achieving competitive advantage within the construction industry. ...

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The Impact of Design Team Characteristics on Construction Project Performance with the Mediating Role of Construction Project Costs