Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address the two research gaps in the literature between employee needs and organizational socialization; and organizational socialization and organizational culture by examining the relationships among four employee motivational needs (for achievement,...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand the persistent ambiguity of socialization practices in US and Swedish organizations, which promote a mature work identity while infantilizing their employees. Design/methodology/approach – Application of the insights from modernist...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to existing critiques of workplace spirituality and organizational culture. The paper links the two by problematising definitions of workplace spirituality that employ a “culture approach” to change, in which the construct is limited to...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a meaningful framework for the classification of the integrity trait in the moral context (ethics), offering an understandable conceptualization of a notion that although identified as central in the literature has is not been defined in a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a psychoanalytical approach to dealing with organizational inertia. Design/methodology/approach – The concept of organizational inertia is defined and factors contributing to insight inertia and action inertia are delineated. Findings – It...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between psychological climate and employee performance, in the Indian environment, in order to understand better the conditions that foster high levels of in‐role and extra‐role performance. Design/methodology/approach...

Purpose – This article seeks to analyse rituals of humour and joking practices among two groups of meatpacking workers, to better understand the organic dynamics of workplace fun. Design/methodology/approach – This is an ethnographic study of two groups of meatpacking workers within a...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to define toxins such as toxic leader, toxic manager, toxic culture, and toxic organization and explore how they affect the organization's performance and its employees. Design/methodology/approach – This article is basically twofold. It is a...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to address and discuss usage and implications of a weblog in a corporate communication context from an employees' perspective. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is a case study of a government agency's corporate blogging activity, traced through focus...