Self-leadership is a normative or prescriptive model of empowering employees. There is no single psychological theory that accounts for the way it operates. The manuscripts in this e-book are intended to create some new excitement regarding self-leadership research. They are filled with...

Purpose – The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between mentoring, job satisfaction and organizational commitment among African‐American males. Design/methodology/approach – An online questionnaire was completed by 359 African‐American males in a business setting....

Purpose – To analyse the impact of change‐oriented leaders on group outcomes. An explanatory model is proposed, in which the team climate (in particular as it relates to innovation) mediates between change‐oriented leadership and group outcomes, while group potency reinforces this...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to compare the explanatory power of reactance theory and power dependence theory in predicting the moderating effect of job embeddedness on the organizational trust-workplace deviance relationship. Design/Methodology/Approach – Cross-sectional data were...

Purpose – The present study aims to analyze the predictive value of three motivational dispositions (need for achievement, need for affiliation, and need for power) for job involvement and organizational commitment and to investigate cross‐cultural differences between Germany and South Korea...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to assess how the cultural value orientations of individual employees moderate their attitudinal responses to different categories of organizational rewards. Specifically, it seeks to examine how one dimension of traditionality, respect for authority,...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between two forms of work‐family conflict – work‐family conflict and family‐work conflict – and individual consequences for Chinese managers. Design/methodology/approach – Participants of this study were 264...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contrast the foundations of (affective) organizational and career-oriented commitment. Using social exchange theory as a background, organizational commitment is proposed as a mediator between perceived organizational support (POS) and competence...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine gender differences in reactions to pay inequity and procedural justice. Specifically, the study seeks to reveal whether these gender differences can be explained by pay comparisons and knowledge of pay. Design/methodology/approach –...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine whether an employee’s level of organizational commitment is influenced by his or her level of differentiation of self. Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted a survey questionnaire among fully employed workers in the USA. Data were...