Department of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour

Security Journal 39(1) Doi: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41284-026-00551-2

Utilizing the Critical Incident Technique (CIT), this in-depth case study explores the role of individual safety consciousness in an adversary recruitment process. The data stems from the legal proceedings of a criminal case in which Russian Foreign Intelligence (SVR) successfully recruited a trusted employee from a societal safety-oriented organization. Based on three CIT categories: (1) professional recruitment strategies, (2) safety consciousness in the recruitment process, and (3) change in behavior due to the recruitment process, we provide a conceptual model and typology of insider threats. Conceptualized through security violations as accidental & neglective, self-motivated, and actor-driven insider threats, the results may help organizations delineate and target preventive efforts and draw on existing research.

Current Psychology 45(10) Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-026-09541-4

This paper introduces the notion of perceived supervisor politics (PSP), suggests that it differs from perceived organizational politics (POP), and develops an expanded self-consistency perspective to explain the effects of POP and PSP. Based on cognitive dissonance theory and its self-consistency assumptions, we suggest that POP represents a threat to self-consistency for employees with high organization-based self-esteem (OBSE) but not those with low OBSE. In contrast, based on self-verification theory, we suggest that PSP provides self-verification opportunities for low-OBSE employees but not for high-OBSE employees. Reflecting these ideas, we expected to find unique interactions between POP vs. PSP and OBSE in predicting turnover intention. Moreover, by combining insights from cognitive dissonance and self-verification theories, we argue that PSP disrupts employees’ psychological consistency when the self-verification experience implied by the combination of PSP and OBSE conflicts with their overall experience of self-verification with their supervisor. We expected that the resulting three-way interaction would predict turnover intention. Two time-lagged studies were conducted with participants from the US (Study 1) and China (Study 2) to examine these ideas. Consistent with our hypotheses, Study 1 found PSP to be associated with reduced turnover intention among individuals with very low levels of OBSE, whereas Study 2 showed the predicted three-way interaction to explain turnover intention. Detailed findings, along with their implications and future research directions, are discussed.

World Scientific

International Journal of Information Systems and Project Management 14(4) Doi: https://doi.org/10.12821/ijispm140404

Production planning & control (Print) Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2026.2657441