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Short‐termism, control, quick‐fix and bottom line: Toward explaining the Western approach to management

Mamman, Aminu; Saffu, Kojo - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 13 (1998) 5/6, pp. 291-308

Western managers have been criticized for their obsession with profit maximization, concentration on short‐term benefits, control of the work process and hastiness in adopting and abandoning new ideas. Why Western managers manage the way they do has not been addressed adequately in our view....

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Neuroticism and the psychosomatic model of workplace bullying

Djurkovic, Nikola; McCormack, Darcy; Casimir, Gian - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 21 (2006) 1, pp. 73-88

Purpose – To examine the role of neuroticism in the psychosomatic model of workplace bullying. Design … prevent bullying from occurring. Originality/value – This paper extends the psychosomatic model of workplace bullying by … strategies for countering workplace bullying and its effects. …

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Eustress, distress and their interpretation in primary and secondary occupational stress management interventions: which way first?

Le Fevre, Mark; Kolt, Gregory S.; Matheny, Jonathan - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 21 (2006) 6, pp. 547-565

Purpose – To develop an argument for the retention of secondary approaches to stress management (those that focus on the individual within the organization) as first interventions, prior to the employment of primary approaches (those that focus on the organization's processes and structures)....

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Fear in organizations

Zoghbi Manrique de Lara, Pablo - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 21 (2006) 6, pp. 580-592

organizational justice perception that reflects how a person is treated by an authority, and workplace internet deviance (or … Cyberloafing) as a category of deviant workplace behavior. The tested model suggests that interactional justice affects … reciprocate with deviant workplace internet behaviors. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected from 147 (19.4 percent …

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Perceived organizational support's role in stressor‐strain relationships

Richardson, Hettie A.; Yang, Jixia; Vandenberg, Robert J.; … - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 23 (2008) 7, pp. 789-810

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine when perceived organizational support (POS) may be more likely to play a mediator versus moderator role in stressor and strain relationships by considering POS relative to challenge and hindrance stressors, cognitive/emotional and physical...

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Generational differences at work: introduction and overview

Macky, Keith; Gardner, Dianne; Forsyth, Stewart - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 23 (2008) 8, pp. 857-861

Purpose – This introduction seeks to provide a brief background to the notion that there are generational differences at work and to introduce the papers included in this special issue of the Journal of Managerial Psychology . Design/methodology/approach – The current context concerning...

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Generational differences in psychological traits and their impact on the workplace

Twenge, Jean M.; Campbell, Stacy M. - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 23 (2008) 8, pp. 862-877

's workplace. Design/methodology/approach – The data are gathered from research reports using psychological scales over the last … demands, job‐hopping, ethics scandals, casual dress, and shifting workplace norms for women. Organizations can respond to … age. This empirically based look at generations in the workplace should be useful to managers and workers. …

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Crossover specificity of team‐level work‐family conflict to individual‐level work‐family conflict

Hetty van Emmerik, I.J.; Peeters, Maria C.W. - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 24 (2009) 3, pp. 254-268

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 of a multilevel analyses with data from 428 employees of a Dutch municipality working in 49 teams....

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Negative and positive spillover between work and home

Lourel, Marcel; Ford, Michael T.; Edey Gamassou, Claire; … - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 24 (2009) 5, pp. 438-449

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to test a model of the relations between positive and negative work‐to‐home interference home‐to‐work interference on perceived stress, and job satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach – The mediating role of negative and positive...

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Perceived acceptance and work standards as predictors of work attitudes and behavior and employee psychological distress following an internal business merger

Joslin, Felicity; Waters, Lea; Dudgeon, Paul - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 25 (2010) 1, pp. 22-43

Purpose – This study aims to test the relationship between two measures of sociocultural adjustment (perceived acceptance and work standard) with work attitudes and behavior and with psychological distress following an internal merger of two previously distinct working groups within the one...

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