...Katrien Vandevelde; Elfi Baillien; Guy Notelaers Purpose This study tested whether person-job fit (PJ-fit), person-group fit (PG-fit) and person-organization fit (PO-fit) relate to exposure to and enactment of workplace bullying (WB), mediated by strain and conflict. Design/methodology/approach...

... relationship conflict and decreasing psychological safety among the stakeholders. Practical implications This study provides important theoretical and practical contributions mostly for the consultation processes, as interventions might be directed at fostering the positive effects of power disparity...

... of the Oedipus complex, the paper sheds light on some of the psychodynamic consequences of age-related policy changes. Second, it challenges assumptions about workforce aging and the underlying causes of intergenerational conflict, highlighting ways that policy changes intended to eradicate discrimination...

...Linda C. Isenhour; Dianna L. Stone; Donald Lien; Long‐Zeng Wu; Ho Kwong Kwan; Jun Liu; Christian J. Resick Purpose The current study seeks to examine the link between abusive supervision and subordinate family undermining by focusing on the mediating role of work‐to‐family conflict...

...Barbara Beham; Sonja Drobnič Purpose The paper seeks to examine the relationships between various work demands and resources and satisfaction with work‐family balance in a sample of German office workers. Work‐to‐family conflict is expected to mediate several relationships between dependent...

...Arnold B. Bakker; Mina Westman; I.J. Hetty van Emmerik; I.J. Hetty van Emmerik; Maria C.W. Peeters Purpose This study aims to investigate the crossover specificity of team‐level stressors to individual‐level work‐family conflict. Design/methodology/approach The paper takes the form...

... development and progress. Similarly calendar events like the end or the beginning of a decade, century or millennium offers a good excuse to reflect and ponder. Content management Work psychology Conflict What is the difference between applied, business, occupational, organisational, managerial...

...Andrew Hede Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce the concept of the “shadow group” as a partial explanation of intragroup relationship conflict in organizations. Also, to offer a new model of the “self‐in‐group” comprising a binary pair of opposite selves (“overt self” and “shadow...

...Francisco Gil; Carlos‐María Alcover; José‐María Peiró; Francisco J. Medina; Lourdes Munduate; Miguel A. Dorado; Inés Martínez; José M. Guerra Purpose Seeks to evaluate the link between task and relationship conflict, and their influence on some employees' affective reactions such as satisfaction...

...Francisco Gil; Carlos‐María Alcover; Josée‐María Peiró; Ana Margarida Passos; António Caetano Purpose The purpose of this paper is to test a model of the effects of intragroup conflict (relationship conflict, task conflict and process conflict), past performance feedback and perceptions of team...

...Maria T.M. Dijkstra; Dirk van Dierendonck; Arne Evers; Carsten K.W. De Dreu Purpose This study examines the moderating influence of the Big Five factors of agreeableness, extraversion, and emotional stability on the relationship between conflict and well‐being. Design/methodology/approach – Two...

...María Pilar de Luis Carnicer; Angel Martínez Sánchez; Manuela Pérez Pérez; María José Vela Jiménez Shows the results of a survey about the antecedents of work‐family conflict in a sample of Spanish employees. Analyses and discusses the influence of job‐related and non‐related factors. The results...

... conflicts between the goals (McFarland et al., 2002). Such conflicts may relate to setting goals and deciding resource allocations between them but additional conflicts are likely to arise during production where more immediate decisions need to be made. For example, if production output increases...

.... In the wider perspective the work of the organization will suffer. Conflict Individual behaviour Organizational development Teamwork Interventions Managers, team leaders, trainers and consultants frequently report a scenario in which they sense that something is not quite right...

...Wanda J. Smith; K. Vernard Harrington; Christopher P. Neck Examines how humor is related to alternative conflict resolution strategies. It also seeks to advance understanding further by examining how respondents’ group membership (race and gender) and demographic similarity with the conflict party...

...Stephen McKenna Deals with cross‐cultural issues involved in conflict resolution in a high‐technology corporation based in South‐east Asia. Examines the differences in conflict‐handling styles between Asians and North Americans and how these differences affect management in the corporation...

... and offers recommendations in the form of guidelines for management on how to deal with these practices effectively. Conflict Employee attitudes Individual behaviour Top management Organizational behaviour JMP 7,5 UNCONVENTIONAL PRACTICES AT WORK ABSTRACT & KEYWORDS UNCONVENTIONAL PRACTICES AT WORK...

... offers encouragement. © MCB UP Limited 1990 Conflict Coping Management styles Motivation Quality of working life 28 JOURNAL OF MANAGERIAL PSYCHOLOGY 5,3 M y boss was born on the wrong side of the fence. Everything she/he does seems to conflict with my natural way of doing things. When...

... and ultimately organisational effectiveness. The employee assistance programme (EAP) is emerging as a positive and constructive response by employers to help employees manage and resolve work and personal conflicts, pressures and problems. Originating in America in the early 1960s, the EAP first appeared...

...Lawson K. Savery The influence of certain factors under the direct control of management and affecting the level of job satisfaction in the headquarters of a major local government in Western Australia are examined. It is concluded that those factors leading to conflict,whether internal...