... than high. Leadership Compensation 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...

... of repertory grid technique (Kelly, 1955) 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...

... integration. Originality/value The study is the first to empirically test Berry's concepts of sociocultural adjustment, neutrality and asymmetry within an internal business merger. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Workplace Acquisitions and mergers Work psychology Performance measures...

... Affective psychology Employees turnover Work psychology The concept of psychological contract concerns an individual's beliefs regarding the terms and conditions of a reciprocal exchange agreement between that person and another party (Rousseau, 2003). Changes in employee attitudes and behaviour...

...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...

... of these elements are likely to contribute to lower levels of perceived interference between work and home. T. Alexandra Beauregard can be contacted at: a.beauregard@lse.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Work psychology Personality Self‐esteem Public sector organizations...

... and values towards a particular aspect of life and, hence, it must relate to personality traits, as earlier (Lawler and Hall, 1970) and more contemporary writers (Elloy and Terpening, 1992) have suggested. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Work psychology Personality Work study Work...

... ; Wang, 2000 ; Yang and Brown, 1998). Our following discussions are selective for the purpose of the present study. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Work psychology Stress Culture (sociology) China Taiwan Work stress has become one of the most serious health issues in the modern world...

... literature failed to provide any studies which demonstrated the criterion‐related validity of emotional intelligence for any specific occupational area. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Intelligence Validity Measurement Work psychology A study of team leaders (Dulewicz and Higgs, 2000a, c...

... “treatment” oriented synonym that implies the normality and dynamic nature of these processes. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Psychology Management Work psychology Freud’s view of the unconscious also stood in contrast to those who simply saw it as a messy collection of ideas, desires...

... Management Work psychology The year 2000 was not only the start of a new millennium, but was an anniversary of an event that may have escaped the attention of much of the world’s population. The anniversary that I am thinking of here is the centenary of the book entitled Die Traumdeutung...

... of the study for tele‐workers and managers are outlined. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Homeworking Technology Work psychology Telecommunications Banking The flexibility offered by tele‐working (involving work away from the office via telecommunication equipment) is being embraced by more...

... 2000 Work psychology Telecommunicating Work design Forecasting The field of rewards psychology also had some important things to say. Some of the issues that these generational changes would pose first became evident in the studies on the rewards behaviour of younger employees. Higher...

... be acknowledged and used by organisations in a conscious way to provide developmental experiences and opportunities for their employees. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Management development Psychology Human resource development Work psychology Work organization After World War II, a knowledge...

... by integrating the temporal structures to mesh at critical points. However, Barley (1988) ultimately concluded that, in most cases, temporal asymmetry between groups will most likely result in conflict. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Individual behaviour Work psychology Time Productivity Stress Type...

... Individual behaviour Time management Work psychology Students of time management have attempted to analyze and understand the time use of those persons who want to become more efficient on the job, in their home lives, and in the other activities that they undertake. Through the years, some sets...

... 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 of Research in Organizational Behavior...

... Time Time keeping Work psychology Businesses today often operate in competitive environments that are increasingly turbulent and unpredictable (Bartlett and Ghoshal, 1991). The timing of individuals’, groups’, and organizations’ responses under such conditions has become crucial to firm survival...

... Individual behaviour National cultures Task Time management Work psychology Individuals differ in the ways they approach time and in how they accomplish their goals. One construct that describes how individuals approach time that has received increased attention recently is polychronicity, which...

... 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 organizing activities by scheduling two or more events at one time...