... Employees behaviour Employee exchanges Kazakhstan Attitudes Work psychology Undesirable management behaviors present significant problems for modern organizations, including harmful consequences for employees and their families, and bottom line performance problems for the organization overall...

...) is consistent with other work that has successfully used it for studies of managers and in work psychology generally. For example, the repertory grid technique has been used to evaluate management training (Easterby‐Smith and Ashton, 1975), managers' self‐development (Fransella and Porter, 1990), management...

... internal business units and functions (Cappelli et al., 1997 ; Donaldson, 1994 ; Probst, 2003). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Workplace Acquisitions and mergers Work psychology Performance measures In the face of increased competitive pressure from the external...

... Affective psychology Employees turnover Work psychology The focus of most of the psychological contract research has thus been on the contingent interplay between the exchanged resources, building on the “inducements‐contributions” model of the employee‐employer exchange relationship (Coyle...

...Adrian Furnham Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review the current status of work psychology mainly by a content analysis of all the issues in Volume 21 of this journal in 2006. Design/methodology/approach The aims are achieved by conducting a content analysis of one volume to try...

... integrate behaviours used at home and at work.H1. Adaptive perfectionism will be negatively related to WIH and HIW. H2. Maladaptive perfectionism will be positively related to WIH and HIW. Work psychology Personality Self‐esteem Public sector organizations Employee attitudes...

... in terms of marital status, as 43.4 percent of them were married. Finally, 37.6 percent of the participants were university graduates. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Work psychology Personality Work study Work involvement refers to the extent to which an individual...

... that work stress would be related to strain: H1.=Employees who report higher work stress would report lower job satisfaction, and lower well‐being. Work psychology Stress Culture (sociology) China Taiwan Work stress has become one of the most serious health issues in the modern...

... and intuition when appropriate; and 7. conscientiousness: being consistent in one's words and actions, and behaving according to prevailing ethical standards. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Intelligence Validity Measurement Work psychology Great interest has been shown in recent...

... that have been adopted thus far in the organisation literature and then raises some issues related to those who seek to use psychoanalytically informed insight to make interventions and manage organisation dynamics. Psychology Management Work psychology What can psychoanalysis teach...

... special issue in this journal on this topic, edited by Thibault de Swarte (1998), and also the excellent book by Yiannis Gabriel (1999) entitled Organizations in Depth: The Psychoanalysis of Organizations. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Psychology Management Work psychology The year...

... to tele‐work. All subjects worked predominantly from home now (i.e. generally five days a week), although most did go into the office at times (e.g. for meetings). © MCB UP Limited 2000 Homeworking Technology Work psychology Telecommunications Banking The flexibility offered...

..., alternative forms of work organization and fundamental changes in work values. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Work psychology Telecommunicating Work design Forecasting “…Looking back at what has come to pass in the field of work, it is clear that at the millennium psychologists began...

... of the organisation to deal with a difficult employee and a lack of understanding regarding the process of insight building and behaviour change. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Management development Psychology Human resource development Work psychology Work organization After World War II...

... Individual behaviour Work psychology Time Productivity Stress Type A behavior, also known as coronary prone behavior, was introduced nearly four decades ago by two cardiac physicians (Friedman and Rosenman, 1974), who attempted to explain the link between high‐pressure job environments and coronary...

... MCB UP Limited 1999 Competitive strategy Corporate culture Organizational behaviour Publishing industry Telecommunications industry Work psychology Polychronicity is one of the temporal elements of an organization’s culture. A polychronic culture is one in which members value...

... 1999 Ethnic groups Individual behaviour National cultures Phenomenology Time Work psychology Jane was sitting in her office responding to e‐mails, talking on the phone and eating her lunch simultaneously. When she was finished with the phone, Jane began a meeting with a subordinate...

... groups, we conclude that the presence of time‐urgent group members increases group‐level monochronic (versus polychronic) behavior and has a positive effect on groups’ primary task activity. Group dynamics Individual behaviour Time Time keeping Work psychology Businesses today often operate...

... view. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Competitiveness Executives Individual behaviour Work psychology Time is a fundamental aspect of organizational life; “today, time is on the cutting edge” (Stalk, 1988, p. 41, emphasis in the original). In their preface to a recent volume...

... Corporate culture Punctuality Scheduling Time Work organization Work psychology Over the past decade and a half, questions about organizational culture’s impacts on many aspects of organization‐level (e.g. Kotter and Heskett, 1992; Peters and Waterman, 1982) and individual‐level (e.g. O’Reilly...