Being present and thankful: A multi-study investigation of mindfulness, gratitude, and employee helping behavior.
In this study, we examined whether one notable form of present moment attention, mindfulness, may promote helping behavior by stimulating the positive, other-oriented emotion of gratitude. Across two experimental studies, a semiweekly, multisource diary study, and a 10-day experience sampling investigation, we found converging evidence for a serial mediation model in which state mindfulness, via positive affect and perspective taking, prompts greater levels of gratitude, prosocial motivation, and, in turn, helping behavior at work. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of our investigation, as well as avenu...
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology - April 12, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Resource leverage, resource depletion: A multilevel perspective on multiple team membership.
Multiple team membership (MTM) is a complex phenomenon that poses significant challenges for organizational research and practice. In this article, we delve into the multilevel nature of MTM, which has not received adequate research attention to date. We develop a resource-based framework that advances our understanding of the antecedents and productivity consequences of firm MTM, and the synergistic effects of individual MTM and firm MTM on an individual’s emotional exhaustion. Using a sample of 19,803 employees from 145 German organizations, our analyses reveal that MTM is most prevalent in knowledge-intensive and unde...
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology - April 8, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Pain or gain? Understanding how trait empathy impacts leader effectiveness following the provision of negative feedback.
Although providing negative performance feedback can enhance employee performance, leaders are sometimes reluctant to engage in this activity. Reflecting this, prior research has identified negative feedback provision as an aversive, yet potentially rewarding, managerial activity. However, little is known about how providing negative feedback impacts the effectiveness of leaders who do so. To shed light on this issue, we develop and test a theoretical model that identifies how leaders’ proximal and distal reactions to providing negative feedback are contingent upon their levels of trait empathy. Supporting our theory, re...
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology - April 8, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The effect of mindfulness and job demands on motivation and performance trajectories across the workweek: An entrainment theory perspective.
Employee performance is commonly investigated as a static, one-time snapshot of prior employee behaviors. For the studies that do acknowledge that performance fluctuates over time, the timeframe decision is disconnected from theoretical underpinnings. To make this connection clearer, we draw on entrainment theory and investigate trajectories in motivation and performance across the 5-day workweek. We hypothesize that both motivational control (i.e., staying on course and sustaining effort in pursuit of goals through the redirection of attention) and performance have a declining trajectory across the workweek. Drawing on se...
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology - April 8, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Stop and go, where is my flow? How and when daily aversive morning commutes are negatively related to employees’ motivational states and behavior at work.
Despite convincing evidence about the general negative consequences of commuting for individuals and societies, our understanding of how aversive commutes are linked to employees’ effectiveness at work is limited. Drawing on theories of self-regulation and by extension a conservation of resources perspective, we develop a framework that explains how an aversive morning commute—a resource-depleting experience characterized by interruptions of automated travel behaviors—impairs employees’ immersion in uninterrupted work (i.e., flow), which in turn reduces employee effectiveness (i.e., work engagement, subjective perf...
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology - April 8, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
