Status acuity: The ability to accurately perceive status hierarchies reduces status conflict and benefits group performance.
Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol 108(1), Jan 2023, 114-137; doi:10.1037/apl0001024Humans are a fundamentally social species, having evolved in groups with status hierarchies. However, research on the dimensions of individual ability has largely overlooked the domain of status. Building upon research on the individual-level benefits of accurate status perceptions, we propose that there exists an individual dispositional ability to perceive groups’ informal status hierarchies, which we call status acuity, and which has important implications for group dynamics. We find support for the existence and importance of status a...
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology - July 28, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
"Transformed by the family: An episodic, attachment theory perspective on family–work enrichment and transformational leadership." Correction to McClean et al. (2021).
This article thus expands our understanding of the link between positive family experiences and leader behaviors, suggesting that while the family is a daily source of positive inspiration for supervisors, these positive results are not universal across all supervisors. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Journal of Applied Psychology)
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology - July 14, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Toward a holistic perspective of congruence research with the polynomial regression model.
Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol 108(3), Mar 2023, 446-465; doi:10.1037/apl0001028The polynomial regression with response surface analysis (PRRSA) model is widely used in congruence studies, yet its application in congruence research has not achieved the desired theoretical progress in this research area. As part of the continuous efforts to advance congruence research, this study analyzes 31 congruence-related articles recently published in top-tier management journals, including Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, Personnel Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human D...
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology - July 11, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Biting the hand that feeds: A status-based model of when and why receiving help motivates social undermining.
Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol 108(1), Jan 2023, 27-52; doi:10.1037/apl0000580Social exchange theory suggests that after receiving help, people reciprocate by helping the original help giver. However, we propose that help recipients may respond negatively and harm the help giver when they perceive helping as a status threat and experience envy. Integrating the helping as status relations framework and the social functional perspective of envy, we examine when and why receiving help may prompt help recipients to undermine help givers. Across four studies, we find progressive support for our results, which show that when...
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology - July 11, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Walking on eggshells: A self-control perspective on workplace political correctness.
Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol 108(3), Mar 2023, 425-445; doi:10.1037/apl0001025Being politically correct involves an understanding that language and behavior can affect others, and a willingness to modify or suppress those words or actions to be sensitive and tolerant toward others. At work, political correctness may manifest as refraining from sharing a risqué joke out of concern of hurting others’ feelings, altering language to be gender neutral, suppressing saying something that might be considered rude or insensitive, or avoiding controversial topics altogether. As employees are increasingly entrenched in their...
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology - May 23, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Untying the climate strength knot: A meta-analytic examination of restricted variance effects in climate strength relations.
Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol 108(1), Jan 2023, 72-99; doi:10.1037/apl0001022Climate strength is often included in organizational climate models, however, its role in such models remains unclear. We propose that the inconsistent findings regarding the effects of climate strength are due in part to its complicated relationship with climate level. Specifically, we propose that the relationship between level and strength is heteroscedastic and nonlinear due to restricted variance (RV) and potential leniency bias in climate ratings. We examine how this relationship between level and strength affects relations between clim...
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology - May 19, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Progressive or pressuring? The signaling effects of egg freezing coverage and other work–life policies.
Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol 108(1), Jan 2023, 1-26; doi:10.1037/apl0001023In recent years, organizations have expanded the number and types of work–life policies they offer in an attempt to attract and retain talent. We challenge the assumption that work–life policies uniformly signal personal-life support and elicit favorable employee attitudes by investigating a relatively new work–life policy: egg freezing coverage. We theorize that, relative to other work–life policies, egg freezing coverage is more likely to send signals that evoke negative employee attitudes; although framed as intended to support empl...
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology - May 19, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Getting unstuck: The effects of growth mindsets about the self and job on happiness at work.
Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol 108(1), Jan 2023, 152-166; doi:10.1037/apl0001021Past research on growth mindsets has focused on the benefits of viewing the self as flexible rather than fixed. We propose that employees can make more substantial agentic changes to their work experiences if they also hold growth mindsets about their job designs. We introduce the concept of dual-growth mindset—viewing both the self and job as malleable—and examine its impact on employee happiness over time. We hypothesize that fostering a dual-growth mindset yields relatively durable gains in happiness, while fostering a growth mindset...
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology - May 12, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A recipe for success? Sustaining creativity among first-time creative producers.
Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol 108(1), Jan 2023, 100-113; doi:10.1037/apl0001019Sustaining creativity is difficult. We identify the conditions that determine repeat production of novelty among first-time producers, and the psychological mechanism transmitting their effects. Our theoretical model highlights that the novelty of a first production can lower the probability of creating a second production, particularly when the first production is bestowed with an award or recognition. This effect occurs primarily because individuals who win an award for a prior novel production experience a greater threat to their creativ...
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology - May 12, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Does taking charge help or harm employees’ promotability and visibility? An investigation from supervisors’ status perspective.
Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol 108(1), Jan 2023, 53-71; doi:10.1037/apl0000752Taking charge is an important form of proactive behavior that sustains organizational survival and success. Despite considerable research on how to encourage employees to take charge, little is known about whether and when supervisors will evaluate those who take charge as more or less promotable and visible. Building on and extending the theoretical notion of dyadic complementary fit, we propose that, compared with lower status-goal-striving supervisors, higher status-goal-striving supervisors regard those who take charge as helping enhance ...
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology - May 12, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Asians don't ask? Relational concerns, negotiation propensity, and starting salaries.
Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol 108(2), Feb 2023, 273-290; doi:10.1037/apl0001017In the U.S., Asians are commonly viewed as the “model minority” because of their economic prosperity. We challenge this rosy view by revealing that certain Asian groups may be susceptible to lower starting salaries. In Study 1, we analyzed 19 class years of MBAs who accepted full-time job offers in the U.S. At first glance, Asians appeared to have starting salaries similarly high as Whites’. However, a striking gap emerged once we distinguished between East Asians (e.g., ethnic Chinese), Southeast Asians (e.g., ethnic Vietnamese), and...
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology - May 5, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
When thriving requires effortful surviving: Delineating manifestations and resource expenditure outcomes of microaggressions for Black employees.
Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol 108(2), Feb 2023, 183-207; doi:10.1037/apl0001016Although overt racism is condemned by many organizations, insidious forms of racism persist. Drawing on the conservation of resources framework (Hobfoll, 1989), this article identifies forms and outcomes of racial microaggressions—daily verbal, behavioral, and environmental indignities that denigrate individuals from racially minoritized groups (Sue, Capodilupo, et al., 2007). Leveraging survey data from 345 Black employees, open-ended question qualitative insights delineate three overarching themes of workplace microaggression toward Bla...
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology - April 28, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Too good to be true? Are supervisor-perspective ratings a valid substitute for actual supervisor ratings?
Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol 108(1), Jan 2023, 167-178; doi:10.1037/apl0001018Due 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 assumption is supervisor-perspective ratings are less affected by the noted issues with self-ratings and therefore are more similar to actual supervisor ratings than traditional self-ratings. In fact,...
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology - April 28, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Are leaders still presumed white by default? Racial bias in leader categorization revisited.
Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol 108(2), Feb 2023, 330-340; doi:10.1037/apl0001020In the United States, leaders of the highest valued companies, best-ranked universities, and most-consumed media outlets are more likely to be White than what would be expected based on White people’s representation in the U.S. population. One explanation for this racial gap is that U.S. respondents’ prototype of a leader is White by default—which is, in turn, what causes White (vs. non-White) people to be promoted up the organizational ladder more quickly. Although this explanation has empirical support, its central premise was recen...
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology - April 25, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Am I motivated to share knowledge for better innovative performance? An approach and avoidance framework.
Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol 108(1), Jan 2023, 138-151; doi:10.1037/apl0001015Past research has long emphasized the critical roles of approach and avoidance motivation orientations in people’s creative and innovative performance. However, it has generated mixed results and suggested the possibility of multiple pathways and mechanisms to explain these relationships. In this article, we first argue that employees’ approach and avoidance motivation orientations are likely to guide their knowledge-sharing (KS) behaviors, which, in turn, influence their innovative performance. We differentiate between explicit and imp...
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology - March 28, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
