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Promoting Fun or Competition? Testing Interventions on Ludic and Agonistic Work Design

open access: yesJournal of Organizational Behavior, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research highlights the benefits of play‐at‐work, yet little is known about training employees to self‐initiate it. We tested two programs to train employees on designing work with elements of fun (ludic work design [LWD]) or competition (agonistic work design [AWD]).
Jan E. Walsken   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Testing the Social Investment Principle Around Childbirth: Little Evidence for Personality Maturation Before and After Becoming a Parent

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020
Abstract In line with the social investment principle, becoming a parent should lead to more mature behaviour and an increase in conscientiousness, agreeableness, and emotional stability. However, previous research provided mixed results that do not support this idea.
Eva Asselmann   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Disrupting the Chain of Displaced Aggression: A Review and Agenda for Future Research

open access: yesJournal of Organizational Behavior, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Displaced aggression refers to instances in which a person redirects their harm‐doing behavior from a primary to a secondary, substitute target. Since the publication of the first empirical article in 1948, there has been a noticeable surge in research referencing this theory in both management and psychology journals.
Constantin Lagios   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the Trail of Creativity: Dimensionality of Divergent Thinking and Its Relation With Cognitive Abilities, Personality, and Insight

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020
Abstract Divergent thinking (DT) is an important constituent of creativity that captures aspects of fluency and originality. The literature lacks multivariate studies that report relationships between DT and its aspects with relevant covariates, such as cognitive abilities, personality traits (e.g. openness), and insight. In two multivariate studies (N 
S. Weiss   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Double‐Edged Sword of Servant Leadership: Motivational Climates, Helping Behavior, and Financial Performance

open access: yesJournal of Organizational Behavior, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research on the effects of servant leadership on firm success has yielded inconsistent results. Connecting servant leadership theory to achievement goal theory, we theorize that servant leadership exerts both beneficial and detrimental effects on firms by shaping two distinct motivational climates: mastery climate and performance climate ...
Therese Egeland   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Who Knows Best What the Next Year Will Hold for You? The Validity of Direct and Personality‐based Predictions of Future Life Experiences Across Different Perceivers

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020
Abstract This study explored the validity of person judgements by targets and their acquaintances (‘informants’) in longitudinally predicting a broad range of psychologically meaningful life experiences. Judgements were gathered from four sources (targets, N = 189; and three types of informants, N = 1352), and their relative predictive validity was ...
Nele M. Wessels   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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