Regarding the relationship between identification and creativity, two theoretical logics compete, suggesting both positive and negative relationships. This study addresses the controversy by invoking regulatory focus theory. At the team level, we theorize that the identification–creativity...

The authors present a four-fold conceptual framework of union roles for enhancing workers' paid maternity leave use, consisting of availability, awareness, affordability, and assurance. Using a panel data set constructed from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, workers represented by...

Perceived overqualification and underqualification, as two forms of person – job misfit in different directions, are expected to negatively relate to job attitudes/performance. However, drawing upon expectancy – value theory of motivation, we propose that employees with overqualification or...

Organizational identification has been suggested as a “root construct” in organizational behavior as it captures visceral identity connection between individual and organization. Yet, no empirical support for the notion exists in the literature, so this study tests organizational...

Organizational identification has been argued to have a unique value in explaining individual attitudes and behaviors in organizations, as it involves the essential definition of entities (i.e., individual and organizational identities). This review seeks meta-analytic evidence of the argument...

This study seeks effective ways for managing employees with a high Machiavellian personality in organizations by identifying how to enhance their pro-organizational attitudes (organizational commitment) and behaviors [organizational citizenship behavior (OCB)] through transformational leadership...