In an online survey among 632 employees and their supervisors working in seven Dutch hospitals, we investigated whether the route to employability is either individually designed or relationally negotiated. With regard to the individual route, we expected that a proactive personality would be...

Our main research question is how the asymmetry of conflict between two parties involved in mediation will affect the outcomes of the mediation. Conflict asymmetry is the difference in perceptions of conflict among the parties; that is, one person experiences high levels of conflict while the...

The relationships of thoughts derived from social comparison with group processes and outcomes were examined. Our study among 111 educational groups showed that contrasting thoughts, such as believing to be better than a worse-performing teammate or believing to be worse than a better-performing...

In this paper we link conflict and mediation theory to practice using an asymmetry framework. Past conflict research has provided important insights into the types of conflict that exist in organizations; however, little research on conflict types has been directly related to the process of...

<Para ID="Par1">Using a conjoint analysis with an hypothetical hiring process, in which managers chose repeatedly between two hypothetical candidates for a relevant vacancy, our study confirms that hiring probabilities decline with age, particularly after the age of 58. Several theoretical arguments are given...</para>