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Müller, Ralf Josef
(2024)
The governance of projects
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Müller, Ralf Josef
(2024)
Balanced leadership
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Sankaran, Shankar; Müller, Ralf Josef & Drouin, Nathalie
(2024)
Sustainable project management and its governance in the context of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
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Gottschalk, Petter & Hamerton, Christopher
(2024)
Categories of white-collar offenders based on the theory of convenience
Journal of Forensic Practice.
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Jevnaker, Birgit Helene & Hill, Inge
(2024)
Heritage craft entrepreneuring in the wild: the role of entrepreneurial placemaking for rural development
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Gottschalk, Petter
(2024)
Impression management following investigation and prosecution scandal in Norwegian police: a review of press releases
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Müller, Ralf Josef; Locatelli, Giorgio, Holzmann, Vered, Nilsson, Marly & Sagay, Temisan
(2024)
Artificial Intelligence and Project Management: Empirical Overview, State of the Art, and Guidelines for Future Research
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Swami, Viren; Voracek, Martin, Todd, Jennifer, Furnham, Adrian, Horne, George & Tran, Ulrich S.
(2024)
Positive self-beliefs mediate the association between body appreciation and positive mental health
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Gottschalk, Petter
(2024)
Deterrence effects despite lack of prosecution: Punishment outcomes of white-collar crime investigations in Norway
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van marrewijk, Alfons & van der Steen, Hans
(2024)
Organizational learning from construction fatalities: Balancing juridical, ethical, and operational processes
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Furnham, Adrian; Cuppello, Stephen & Fenton-O'Creevy, Mark
(2024)
Correlates of Stock Market Investment
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In this study, we were concerned with the correlates of stock market (SM) participation.
In all, 1,202 working adults indicated whether or not they invested in the stock market,
and which was split almost equally between those that did and did not. We were interested
in the extent to which their demography (age, sex, education), self-assessed wealth,
as well as personality traits predicted their participation. We used a six-factor robust
measure of work personality (High Potential Trait Indicator). Correlational analysis
indicated that the strongest correlation of stock market participation were wealth, sex,
age, and trait Risk Tolerance. We then did a binary logistic regression which indicated
that being male increased the odds of having invested in the stock market by 91%, and
an increase of 1 year in age increased the odds by 3%. Ambiguity Acceptance and
trait Competitiveness were among the High Potential Trait Indicator personality variables
that were significant predictors of stock market investment. Implications and limitations
are acknowledged.
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Gottschalk, Petter
(2024)
Investigating and Prosecuting White-Collar and Corporate Crime: Challenges and Barriers for National Police Agencies
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Müller, Ralf Josef & Wang, Linzhuo
(2024)
A Taxonomy of Project Management Offices and Their Organizational Project Management Landscapes
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Gottschalk, Petter
(2024)
Deferred Prosecution Agreements as Miscarriage of Justice: An Exploratory Study of Corporate Convenience
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Nordmo, Morten; Bang, Lasse, Øvergaard, Anders & Lang-Ree, Ole Christian
(2024)
Declining Mental Health Without Diminished Military Service Motivation in Norwegian Adolescents From 2009 to 2022: A Research Note
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Gottschalk, Petter
(2024)
When Economic Sanctions Cause White-Collar and Corporate Crime: The Case of Hidden Russian Ownership Revealed by a Norwegian Insurance Firm
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Cheng, Helen & Furnham, Adrian
(2024)
Social, Demographic, and Psychological Factors Associated with Middle-Aged Mother’s Vocabulary: Findings from the Millennium Cohort Study
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Gottschalk, Petter & Hamerton, Christopher
(2024)
Characteristics of Crime Convenience: The Case of Corporate
Offenders
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Rudko, Ihor; Bashirpour Bonab, Aysan, Fedele, Maria & Formisano, Anna Vittoria
(2024)
New institutional theory and AI: toward rethinking of artificial intelligence in organizations
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Andreassen, Tone Alm & Breit, Eric Martin Alexander
(2024)
Professional responses to exogenous change: the social work profession and the jurisdictional domain opened up by the Norwegian welfare-to-work reform
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van Zelderen, Anand Prema Aschwin; Dries, Nicky & Menges, Jochen
(2024)
The curse of employee privilege: harnessing virtual reality technology to inhibit workplace envy
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Abdullah, Azwan; Gottschalk, Petter, Gupta, Chander Mohan, Kamaei, Maryam, Stadler, William & Urzică, Andreea-Luciana
(2024)
Perceptions of offender motives, opportunities and willingness for financial crime: an empirical analysis of survey responses in six nations
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Gottschalk, Petter
(2024)
Economic crime in the courtroom - A case of defense lawyers' arguments against prosecution evidence
Journal of Economic Criminology.
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Gottschalk, Petter
(2024)
Partners in crime - Convenience case study of Norwegian publishing cartel
Journal of Economic Criminology.
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Urzică, Andreea-Luciana & Gottschalk, Petter
(2024)
Convenience propositions for white-collar offenders - Perceptions of seriousness in Romania
Journal of Economic Criminology.
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Eikelenboom, Manon; Oosterlee, Mieke & van marrewijk, Alfons
(2024)
Demolishers or ‘material experts’? Project actors negotiating changing roles in sustainable projects
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Espedal, Gry & Carlsen, Arne
(2024)
Value Inquiry and Constructing the Good in Organizations
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Cuppello, Stephen; Treglown, Luke & Furnham, Adrian
(2024)
INTELLIGENCE, PERSONALITY, AND MANAGEMENT LEVEL
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Arnestad, Mads Nordmo ; Glambek, Mats & Selart, Marcus
(2024)
With a little profitable help from my friends: the relational incongruence of benefiting financially from prosocially motivated favors
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Andreassen, Tone Alm & Breit, Eric
(2024)
Professional responses to exogenous change: the social work profession and the jurisdictional domain opened up by the Norwegian welfare-to-work reform
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Gollwitzer, Anton; Marshall, Julia, Lee, Young-eun, Deutchman, Paul, Warneken, Felix & McAuliffe, Katherine
(2024)
Parent and community political orientation predicts children's health behaviours
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Furnham, Adrian & Cheng, Helen
(2024)
Predicting job satisfaction: Findings from the British Cohort Study
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Gottschalk, Petter
(2024)
Content analysis of press releases from the Norwegian serious fraud office: what do the messages say about focal concerns?
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Eikelenboom, Manon & van marrewijk, Alfons
(2024)
Tied islands: The role of organizational members in knowledge transfer across strategic projects
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Noreng, Øystein
(2024)
Petroleum Industry Structural Transition
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van Zelderen, Anand P. A.; Dries, Nicky & Marescaux, Elise
(2024)
The Paradox of Inclusion in Elite Workforce Differentiation Practices: Harnessing the Genius Effect
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Leka, Jona & Furnham, Adrian
(2024)
Correlates of climate change skepticism
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Mayiwar, Lewend; Wan, Kai Hin, Løhre, Erik & Feldman, Gilad
(2024)
Revisiting representativeness heuristic classic paradigms: Replication and extensions of nine experiments in Kahneman and Tversky (1972)
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Koppang, Haavard; Wenstøp, Søren Henrik & Pineda, Jaime A.
(2024)
Neural perspectives on morality due to beguiling mechanisms
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Furnham, Adrian & Cuppello, Stephen
(2024)
Correlates of the Dark Tetrad
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Mayiwar, Lewend; Hærem, Thorvald & Løhre, Erik
(2024)
Self-Distancing Regulates the Effect of Incidental Anger (vs. Fear) on Affective Decision-Making Under Uncertainty
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Gottschalk, Petter
(2024)
Money laundering prevention: The challenge of insurance termination for outlaw biker gangs' club houses
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Gollwitzer, Anton; Bao, Evelina & Oettingen, Gabriele
(2024)
Intellectual humility as a tool to combat false beliefs: An individual-based approach to belief revision
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Sunde, Erlend; Harris, Anette , Olsen, Olav Kjellevold & Pallesen, Ståle
(2024)
Moral decision-making at night and the impact of night work with blue-enriched white light or warm white light: a counterbalanced crossover study
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Koppang, Haavard; Hærem, Thorvald, Mayiwar, Lewend & Pineda, Jaime A
(2024)
Physical and social warmth
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Wang, Linzhuo; Wang, Xinnan & Liu, Xuemei
(2024)
Project Governance and Governance of Interorganizational Project Networks: Toward Understanding Their Relationships and Future Research Agenda
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Campbell-Hewson, Cristina; Grover, Simmy, Furnham, Adrian & McClelland, Alastair
(2024)
To what extent do lay people and healthcare providers differ in the allocation of scarce medical resources in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic?
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Conti, Emanuela; Jevnaker, Birgit Helene, Camillo, Furio & Musso, Fabio
(2024)
Traditional and environmentally friendly attributes in products of highly design-oriented firms: an exploratory study in the perception of Italian entrepreneurs
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Farstad, Christian Winther & Arnulf, Jan Ketil
(2024)
Individual characteristics in arts management careers: investigating the highly sensitive person scale on motivation to lead
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Løhre, Erik; Chandrashekar, Subramanya Prasad, Mayiwar, Lewend & Hærem, Thorvald
(2024)
Uncertainty, expertise, and persuasion: A replication and extension of Karmarkar and Tormala (2010)
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Hagen, Ingunn & Hagen, Øivind
(2024)
The impact of yoga on occupational stress and wellbeing: exploring practitioners’ experiences
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Urzică, Andreea-Luciana & Gottschalk, Petter
(2023)
Perceptions of Potential White-Collar Criminals in Romania: A Convenience Theory Approach
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This article presents survey research in Romania to identify support or lack of support for propositions in convenience theory as they relate to motive, opportunity, and willingness. The research is important, as convenience propositions that might find strong support among respondents indicate areas for reduction in convenience as a measure to prevent and detect white-collar crime. Convenience is a concept not only associated with savings in time and effort but also with avoidance of strain and pain. Respondents express most strongly support for the proposition that persons in top positions have the opportunity to conceal financial crime at work where there is lack of guardianship, oversight and control. An important factor in improving control is reliable whistleblowing that will reduce the convenience of crime by privileged individuals who intend to abuse their positions for personal or organizational gain.
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Gottschalk, Petter
(2023)
Violations of the social license to operate: Evidence from fraud investigation reports
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Traditionally, white-collar and corporate crime research has focused on the role of the criminal justice system in prosecuting and punishing offenders and offenses. The frequent lack of prosecution and punishment has been explained by various theoretical perspectives that reflect the legal license to operate. However, the emerging perspective of the social license to operate illustrates punishment at violations that can cause termination of executives, market loss, and other serious harm to individuals and firms. This article presents three case studies where fraud examiners reviewed the legal license when the social license was ignored. There is an interesting avenue here for future white-collar and corporate crime research in distinguishing between punishment from violations of the legal license and punishment from violations of the social license to operate.
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Kost, Dominique; Kopperud, Karoline, Buch, Robert, Kuvaas, Bård & Olsson, Ulf Henning
(2023)
The competing influence of psychological job control on family-to-work conflict
Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 96(2), p. 351-377.
Doi:
10.1111/joop.12426
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Psychological job control has typically been negatively related to work-to-family and family-to-work conflict. Based on the job demand-resource model and boundary theory, we argue that psychological job control may indirectly be positively related to family-to-work conflict by both increasing supplemental work, that is, the rate of engagement in work outside of formal working hours without receiving compensation aided by mobile technology, and work-to-family conflict. We hypothesize that this proposed positive indirect relationship will be lower among employees who perceive a high segmentation norm at their workplace. Based on a two-wave study of 4518 employees, we obtained support for a serial moderated mediation model that suggests a dual effect of psychological job control on family-to-work conflict, such that psychological job control was positively associated with family-to-work conflict through supplemental work and work-to-family conflict at low levels of segmentation norms. By examining the dual effects of psychological job control, this study aims to further understand the mechanisms involved in determining whether and when psychological job control, together with supplemental work, encourages employees to uphold or cross boundaries between work and nonwork domains. Our findings imply that psychological job control can both be a resource and a demand depending on the levels of segmentation norms.
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Kennedy, Mari-Rose; Deans, Zuzana, Ampollini, Ilaria, Breit, Eric Martin Alexander, Bucchi, Massimiano, Seppel, Külliki, Vie, Knut Jørgen & Ter Meulen, Ruud
(2023)
“It is Very Difficult for us to Separate Ourselves from this System”: Views of European Researchers, Research Managers, Administrators and Governance Advisors on Structural and Institutional Influences on Research Integrity
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Research integrity is fundamental to the validity and reliability of scientific findings, and for ethical conduct of research. As part of PRINTEGER (Promoting Integrity as an Integral Dimension of Excellence in Research), this study explores the views of researchers, research managers, administrators, and governance advisors in Estonia, Italy, Norway and UK, focusing specifically on their understanding of institutional and organisational influences on research integrity.
A total of 16 focus groups were conducted. Thematic analysis of the data revealed that competition is pervasive and appeared in most themes relating to integrity. The structural frameworks for research such as funding, evaluation and publication were thought to both protect and, more commonly, undermine integrity. In addition, institutional systems, including workload and research governance, shaped participants’ day-to-day work environment, also affecting research integrity. Participants also provided ideas for promoting research integrity, including training, and creating conditions that would be supportive of research integrity.
These findings support a shift away from individual blame and towards the need for structural and institutional changes, including organisations in the wider research environment, for example funding bodies and publishing companies.
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Kamaei, Maryam; Abolhasani, Salameh, Farhood, Naghmeh & Gottschalk, Petter
(2023)
The media concept of mafia business in Iran: A convenience theory approach
Pakistan Journal of Criminology, 14(3), p. 79-99.
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Convenience exists in the financial motive, the organizational opportunity, and the personal willingness for deviant behavior. These three themes can result in 14 convenience propositions as presented.This article aims to discuss the role of convenience in Iranian mafia and how it affects the perpetration of financially motivated crime. For this purpose, we selected and discuss some of these fourteen propositions that can explain mafia operations in Iran.The media concept of mafia business in Iran is exemplified by the meat mafia, the sugar mafia, the tea mafia, and the steel mafia. The procedure used to collect data in this study is documentation, that is, the guidelines used in the form of notes or citations, the
search for legal literature, books and other sources related to the identification of
the problems of this study both offline like online.
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Gottschalk, Petter
(2023)
Women and white-collar crime: A convenience theory perspective
Revista Científica do CPJM, 2, p. 16-39.
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Traditionally, research on the fraction of women in white-collar crime has focused on females’ lack of financial motive, organizational opportunity, and personal willingness for deviant behavior. This article applies the opposite perspective of traditional gender research on white-collar crime in terms of special female motive, opportunity, and willingness. Based on
the theory of convenience, this article identifies convenience themes that are gender-specific in favor of female offenders. In the motive dimension of convenience theory, there is concern for others and strain causing depression and anxiety (Brands and Mehra, 2019). In the opportunity dimension, there are fewer women than men that face suspicions of misconduct, wrongdoing,
and crime. In the willingness dimension, females as followers might justify their actions and neutralize their potential guilt feelings far better than males as leaders in crime by claiming loyalty to their leaders.
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Cuppello, Stephen; Treglown, Luke & Furnham, Adrian
(2023)
Personality and management level: Traits that get you to the top
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In this study we investigated whether personality traits differ among people at difference management levels,
controlling for demographic variables. In total, 10,836 people completed a personality test and provided information about their managerial level. Managerial level was positively associated most with traits Risk Aversion, Ambiguity Acceptance and Conscientiousness. Analysis of covariance and regressions indicated that
personality traits accounted for around 6.6 % of the variance above the demographic variables, particularly age.
Results are broadly in alignment with previous studies in this area, but suggested the importance of two traits
that are not explicitly assessed in the Big Five Factor Models: Ambiguity Acceptance and Attitude to Risk
(Courage). Implications and limitations are acknowledged.
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Furnham, Adrian & Horne, George
(2023)
Sex in the dark: Sex differences on three measures of dark side personality
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This study examined sex differences in the scores on three different measures of the personality disorders (PDs) all derived from on-line surveys. Two groups (total N = 871) completed the Coolidge Axis-II Inventory which assessed 14 PDs; two groups (total N = 732) completed the Short Dark Tetrad which assessed 4 PDs; four groups (total N = 1558) completed the Personality Inventory for DSM-5—Brief Form which assessed 5 PD dimensions. Cohen's d after ANOVAs, and binary regression analysis revealed consistent findings. In this study we calculated 63 d statistics of which 5 were d > 0.50 and 28 were d > 0.20. In two samples, each using two different instruments, men scored higher than women on Anti-Social, Narcissistic and Sadistic PD which is a consistent finding in the literature. Speculations are made about the origin of these differences. Limitations are acknowledged.
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Glambek, Mats; Einarsen, Ståle Valvatne, Gjerstad, Johannes & Nielsen, Morten Birkeland
(2023)
Last in, first out? Length of service as a moderator of the relationship between exposure to bullying behaviors and work-related outcomes
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In the present study, we proposed and tested a conceptual model of length of service in the organization as a moderator of the relationship between exposure to workplace bullying behaviors and turnover intention, as mediated through job dissatisfaction. Specifically, based on the conservation of resources theory and organizational socialization research, we hypothesized that bullying exposure would be more detrimental to employees relatively new to the organization, and less so to those with a long length of service. We employed a probability sample from the Norwegian workforce (N = 1003), with data collected at two time-points separated by six months. In line with previous research, we found that exposure to workplace bullying behaviors predicts increased levels of stability-adjusted turnover intentions, and, that job dissatisfaction mediates this association. Moreover, the mediation effect was dependent on length of service, such that it only was present at average (50th percentile; 8.5 years) and short employment length (16th percentile; 2.5 years), and was significantly stronger for the latter group. Additionally, a Johnson-Neyman test of significance regions revealed that the moderation effect became non-significant at the 69th percentile (14.6 years of length of service) in the present sample. This indicates that while short length of service represents a risk condition for work-related outcomes of bullying exposure, long length of service may represent a resource relating to individual resilience that accumulates over long time-spans.
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McCartney, Jacob; Franczak, Jennifer, Gonzalez, Katerina, Hall, Angela T., Hochwarter, Wayne A., Jordan, Samantha L., Wikhamn, Wajda, Khan, Abdul Karim & Babalola, Mayowa T.
(2023)
Supervisor off-work boundary infringements: Perspective-taking as a resource for after-hours intrusions
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Constant connectivity is prevalent in modern workplaces, aided bysmartphones and email. Supervisors may further pressure theirsubordinates to remain connected to work through their after-hours communications. We develop the concept ofsupervisor off-work boundary infringements (SBI)or supervisor intrusions duringsubordinates’nonwork hours, which are becoming widespreaddue to expectations of immediate accessibility. Through theconservation of resources theory lens, we explore whether theseunnecessary intrusions by supervisors increase subordinate strainoutcomes (i.e. job tension and depressed mood at work). We alsoexamine the role of perspective-taking, a cognitive resourcedeployed as a coping strategy that allows individuals tounderstand the viewpoint of others, which in turn facilitateschanges in one’s attitudes and behaviours. Specifically, wepropose that employee perspective-taking can lessen the adverseeffects of SBI. Across a four-study constructive replication, wefindevidence that SBI positively relates to job tension and adepressed mood at work. Heightened levels of perspective-takingattenuated this relationship. Our study presents evidence thatindividuals who engage in perspective-taking can protectthemselves by buffering the adverse effects of SBI. Importantly,we advocate for corporate policies and laws that protect workersfrom SBI and encourage supervisors to cease such infringementson their employees.
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Mayiwar, Lewend & Björklund, Fredrik
(2023)
Fear and anxiety differ in construal level and scope
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The fear-anxiety distinction has been extensively discussed and debated among emotion researchers. In this study, we tested this distinction from a social-cognitive perspective. Drawing on construal level theory and regulatory scope theory, we examined whether fear and anxiety differ in their underlying level of construal and scope. Results from a preregistered autobiographical recall study (N = 200) that concerned either a fear situation or an anxiety situation and a large dataset from Twitter (N = 104,949) indicated that anxiety was associated with a higher level of construal and a more expansive scope than fear. These findings support the notion that emotions serve as mental tools that deal with different challenges. While fear prompts people to seek immediate solutions to concrete threats in the here and now (contractive scope), anxiety prompts them to deal with distant and unknown threats that require more expansive and flexible solutions (expansive scope). Our study contributes to a growing literature on emotions and construal level and points to interesting avenues for further research.
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Furnham, Adrian & Robinson, Charlotte
(2023)
Correlates of Self-Assessed Optimism
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What are the bright- and dark-side personality trait, ideological belief, and mind-set correlates of self-assessed optimism? This paper reports on four studies, with a total N > 2000. In each, participants rated to what extent they were an optimist on an 8-point scale (high to low). We obtained demographic (age, sex) and ideological (political and religious beliefs) data in each study, as well as self-ratings on four variables (e.g., attractiveness, intelligence) which we aggregated and labelled self-esteem, which had alphas ranging from .70 to .80. We assessed personality, intelligence and other belief systems in different studies. Study 1 showed older, more religious, but less intelligent males with higher self-esteem and Belief in a Just World (BJW) were more optimistic. Study 2 showed older, more religious people, with higher self-esteem were more optimistic. Study 3 showed Open, Extraverted, Agreeable, Emotionally Stable, religious people with higher self-esteem and low on Negative Affectivity and Detachment, but high on Disinhibition, were most optimistic. Study 4 showed older, more religious people with higher self-esteem and lower Dweck fixed personality mindset beliefs were more optimistic. The concept and correlates of dispositional optimism and its measurement are discussed. Limitations and implications are noted.
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Furnham, Adrian & Cheng, Helen
(2023)
The stability and correlates of quality-of-life scores over five years: Findings from a British cohort
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This study explored a nationally representative longitudinal data set of 5273 adults, all born in 1958, examining the stability and change of quality-of-life (QoL) over five years. It also examined the associations between QoL and a set of socio-demographic, psychological and health variables in relation to QoL at both points in time. Results showed that self-report QoL scores were fairly stable over five years (r = 0.59), though there was a statistically significant increase in the total scores of QoL between age 50 to age 55 years. Correlational analysis showed parental social status indicators (measured at birth), childhood intelligence (measured at age 11 years), educational qualifications (measured at age 33 years), occupational levels, income and health, and the Big-Five personality factors (all measured at age 50 years) were all significantly associated with adult QoL. The strongest correlate of adult QoL was self-assessed health measured five years earlier, followed by the Big-Five personality factors, education and occupation, as well as parental social status. Gender was not significantly associated with QoL at either time points. Multiple linear regression analyses showed income, health and three of the Big-Five personality factors (Extraversion, Emotional Stability, Conscientiousness) were significant and independent predictors of QoL at age 55 years. After entering the initial QoL assessed five years earlier, health, traits Extraversion and Emotional Stability and initial QoL were significant predictors of the outcome variable. The implications and limitations of this study are discussed.
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Sadarić, Antonio & Skerlavaj, Miha
(2023)
Leader Idea Championing for Follower Readiness to Change or Not? A Moderated Mediation Perspective of Prosocial Sensegiving
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Change agents influence employee attitudes in order for organizations to change. In an effort to unravel this influence mechanism, we examined the change leader-recipient relationship. More specifically, how change leaders’ championing (independent variable) relates to recipients’ readiness to change (dependent variable). Our conceptual model of change leaders’ prosocial sensegiving is based on adult attachment theory operationalized through storytelling. To test our model, we surveyed 164 change recipients undergoing organizational change in various industries. Results confirm the first part of our model: psychological need satisfaction partially mediates the relation between change leaders’ championing and recipients’ readiness to change. In other words, prosocial change leaders act as attachment figures alleviating anxiety caused by ambiguity addressing change recipients’ proximity-seeking behaviour. Despite what has been described in scholarly works, change leaders’ methods of persuasion seem to be a more accurate indicator of recipients’ readiness for change. Part two of our hypothesized model could not be confirmed: moderation effects of leader influence and narrative intelligence could not be confirmed. We conclude that prosocial change leaders’ who demonstrate narrative intelligence use stories to elicit an emotional response from change recipients, effectively increasing their perceived psychological need satisfaction, ultimately affecting their readiness to change.
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Locatelli, Giorgio; Ika, Lavagnon, Drouin, Nathalie, Müller, Ralf Josef, Huemann, Martina, Söderlund, Jonas, Geraldi, Joana & Clegg, Stewart
(2023)
A Manifesto for project management research
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Project management research has evolved over the past five decades and is now amature disciplinary field investigating phenomena of interest to academics, practi-tioners and policymakers. Studies of projects and project management practicesare theoretically rich and scientifically rigorous. They are practically relevant andimpactful when addressing the pursuit of operational, tactical and strategicadvancements in the world of organisations. We want to broaden the conversa-tion between project management scholars and other scholars from cognate disci-plines, particularly business and management, in a true scholarship of integrationand cross-fertilisation. This Manifesto invites the latter scholars to join effortsproviding a foundation for further creative, theoretical and empirical contribu-tions, including but not limited to tackling grand challenges such as climatechange, pandemics, and global poverty. To this end, we identify five theses:
1. Projects are often‘agents of change’and hence fundamental to driving theinnovation and change required to tackle grand challenges.
2. Much project management research leverages and challenges theories acrossdisciplines, including business, organisation and management studies, con-tributing to developing new theories, including those specific to projects andtemporary organisations.
3.‘Projects’are useful units of analysis, project management research is idealfor scientific cross-fertilisation and project management scholars welcomeacademics from other communities to engage in fruitful conversations.
4. As in many other fields of knowledge, the project management research com-munity embraces diversity, welcoming researchers of different genders andvarious scientific and social backgrounds.
5. Historically rooted in‘problem-solving’and normative studies, project man-agement research has become open to interpretative and emancipatoryresearch, providing opportunities for other business, management and orga-nisational scholars to advance their knowledge communities.
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Gottschalk, Petter
(2023)
White-Collar Crime
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Gottschalk, Petter & Kamaei, Maryam
(2023)
Understanding business offending: Survey research in Iran
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Purpose – The purpose of this study is to explore the extent to which white-collar crime makes sense.
Understanding business offending reflects the degree of sensemaking among respondents in the current
survey research. Making sense implies a number of factors that influence understandability. An
understandable act is not necessarily acceptable or justifiable. At a university in Iran, criminal law and
criminology students answered a questionnaire regarding their extent of understanding of business offenders.
Design/methodology/approach – The research method is the use of experimental data using a
questionnaire in one of the units of the Islamic Azad University in Iran, where 300 students were invited to
respond to an online survey.
Findings – The respondents found it on average understandable that top executives and other privileged
individuals abuse their positions to commit financial crime when they have problems with their personal
finances, when the business struggles financially and faces the threat of bankruptcy, and when they offer
bribes in corrupt countries to obtain business contracts. The extent of understandability varies with a number
of propositions in the convenience theory.
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Daouk-Öyry, Lina
(2023)
Call of duty: When scholars organize in extreme contexts
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Lai, Linda
(2023)
The effects of social vs. personal power on universal dimensions of social perception
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The present study expands previous research on the effects of power on
stereotyping by investigating the impact of two types of power (social power
and personal power) on two universal dimensions of social perception; warmth
and competence. Results from an experiment (N = 377) in which participants
were randomly assigned to provide their impression of either (1) poor people
or (2) rich people, suggest that the two types of power produce different
effects on perceptions of warmth and competence. Personal power increased
stereotype consistent perceptions of warmth whereas social power increased
stereotype consistent perceptions of competence as well as agency, which
was identified as a separate dimension. The pattern of results is discussed
in view of previous work on power effects and stereotyping, and potential
explanations and suggestions for future research are outlined.
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Zahlquist, Lena Aadnevik; Hetland, Jørn, Notelaers, Guy Louis Alice, Rosander, Michael & Einarsen, Ståle Valvatne
(2023)
When the going gets tough and the environment Is rough: The role of departmental level hostile work climate in the relationships between job stressors and workplace bullying
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH), 20(5), p. 1-18.
Doi:
10.3390/ijerph20054464
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Carlsen, Arne & Kvalnes, Øyvind
(2023)
Home Alone and All Together: Lightness of agency in social inquiry
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Research has provided limited knowledge of how people in organizations experience growth of agency during circumstances that seem hopeless and stuck, and how such growth emerges. Drawing from the study of the turnaround processes at a nursing home and the Pragmatism of Dewey and Mead, we contribute with a theory of how agency is produced in social inquiry. We suggest that the puzzling accounts of lightness in the experiences of people at this nursing home help explain how a field of social inquiry may be charged with creative and agentic force. We show how agency emerged through a series of action sequences related to inviting people into inquiry through the opening of a troublesome situation, the resulting voicing of needs and ideas for improvement, as well as the subsequent experimenting and surfacing of tales of meaningful progress from such actions. Furthermore, our empirical observations suggest that the emergence of collective desire to meet the needs of the Generalized Other is a central, yet understated, part of agency produced through social inquiry. Lightness of agency may be accentuated, paradoxically, by the weight of a more generalized situation – in this case that of institutionalized care for elderly – that the local inquiry exemplifies and in which it resonates.
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Furnham, Adrian & Sherman, Ryne A.
(2023)
Beliefs about personal change
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In all, 510 Europeans completed an online questionnaire rating their beliefs about personal change, including the established Dweck Mindset measure. Their ratings of 27 characteristics from BMI to sexual preference factored into 5 interpretable factors labelled Personality, Beliefs and Habits, Health, Social Status and Physical. Correlation indicated beliefs about change were most related to religious beliefs but also sex and age. Dweck ratings of ability and personality growth were logically related to beliefs about change on the five factors and also to religious beliefs and self-rated optimism. Regressions indicated that being religious was the most consistent predictor about change, as well as age and education. Many beliefs about change were in direct contraction to the academic literature on the topic. Implications and limitations are acknowledged.
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Grossmann, Igor; Mandel, David R., Tybur, Joshua M., Raes, Louis, Tay, Louis, Vie, Aymeric, Wagner, Lisa, Adamkovic, Matus, Arami, Arash, Arriaga, Patrícia, Bandara, Kasun, Baník, Gabriel, Rotella, Amanda, Bartoš, František, Baskin, Ernest, Bergmeir, Christoph, Białek, Michał, Børsting, Caroline K., Browne, Dillon T., Caruso, Eugene M., Chen, Rong, Chie, Bin-Tzong, Chopik, William J., Hutcherson, Cendri A., Collins, Robert N., Cong, Chin Wen, Conway, Lucian G., Davis, Matthew, Day, Martin V., Dhaliwal, Nathan A., Durham, Justin D., Dziekan, Martyna, Elbaek, Christian T., Shuman, Eric, Sharpinskyi, Konstantyn, Fabrykant, Marharyta, Firat, Mustafa, Fong, Geoffrey T., Frimer, Jeremy A., Gallegos, Jonathan M., Goldberg, Simon B., Gollwitzer, Anton, Goyal, Julia, Graf-Vlachy, Lorenz, Gronlund, Scott D., Varnum, Michael E. W., Hafenbrädl, Sebastian, Hartanto, Andree, Hirshberg, Matthew J., Hornsey, Matthew J., Howe, Piers D. L., Izadi, Anoosha, Jaeger, Bastian, Kačmár, Pavol, Kim, Yeun Joon, Krenzler, Ruslan, Achter, Sebastian, Lannin, Daniel G., Lin, Hung-Wen, Lou, Nigel Mantou, Lua, Verity Y. Q., Lukaszewski, Aaron W., Ly, Albert L., Madan, Christopher R., Maier, Maximilian, Majeed, Nadyanna M., March, David S., Dhami, Mandeep K., Marsh, Abigail A., Misiak, Michal, Myrseth, Kristian Ove R., Napan, Jaime M., Nicholas, Jonathan, Nikolopoulos, Konstantinos, O, Jiaqing, Otterbring, Tobias, Paruzel-Czachura, Mariola, Pauer, Shiva, Guo, Xinqi Evie, Protzko, John, Raffaelli, Quentin, Ropovik, Ivan, Ross, Robert M., Roth, Yefim, Røysamb, Espen, Schnabel, Landon, Schütz, Astrid, Seifert, Matthias, Sevincer, A.T., Kara-Yakoubian, Mane, Sherman, Garrick T., Simonsson, Otto, Sung, Ming-Chien, Tai, Chung-Ching, Talhelm, Thomas, Teachman, Bethany A., Tetlock, Philip E., Thomakos, Dimitrios, Tse, Dwight C. K. & Twardus, Oliver J.
(2023)
Insights into the accuracy of social scientists’ forecasts of societal change
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How well can social scientists predict societal change, and what processes underlie their predictions? To answer these questions, we ran two forecasting tournaments testing the accuracy of predictions of societal change in domains commonly studied in the social sciences: ideological preferences, political polarization, life satisfaction, sentiment on social media, and gender–career and racial bias. After we provided them with historical trend data on the relevant domain, social scientists submitted pre-registered monthly forecasts for a year (Tournament 1; N = 86 teams and 359 forecasts), with an opportunity to update forecasts on the basis of new data six months later (Tournament 2; N = 120 teams and 546 forecasts). Benchmarking forecasting accuracy revealed that social scientists’ forecasts were on average no more accurate than those of simple statistical models (historical means, random walks or linear regressions) or the aggregate forecasts of a sample from the general public (N = 802). However, scientists were more accurate if they had scientific expertise in a prediction domain, were interdisciplinary, used simpler models and based predictions on prior data.
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Fæhn, Taran & Stoknes, Per Espen
(2023)
Involving stakeholders in scenario-building: Lessons from a case study of the global context of Norway’s climate policies
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This paper assesses the relevance and outcome of involving a transdisciplinary group of stakeholders in a scenario-building research project. The scenarios describe plausible external, long-term conditions with the aim to improve the knowledge basis of a national (Norwegian) government pursuing climate policy targets for 2030 and 2050 under uncertainty. The scenario process has two phases with quite different roles for the participants. In the first, the aim is to create broad engagement and participation in exploring narratives for how key external conditions might develop and form premises for the national climate strategies for Norway. The ambition in this phase is to deduce a handful of wide-ranging and distinctly different, qualitative scenarios. The second phase is devoted to translating the narratives into quantitative projections for the Norwegian economy and greenhouse gas emissions by means of linking global and national largescale models. We claim that research projects building and using scenarios have significant potential to benefit from involving a broad stakeholder group in developing qualitative narratives. The second phase involves complex quantitative simulations. In order to provide scientific rigor and credibility to the scenarios, this phase primarily calls for scholars with technical skills, knowledge on the research frontier and modelling experience. Nevertheless, later use of these scenarios in numerical policy studies can gain from resumed researcher-stakeholder interaction.
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Bonab, Aysan Bashirpour; Bellini, Francesco & Rudko, Ihor
(2023)
Theoretical and analytical assessment of smart green cities
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As a locus of technological innovation, a smart city (SC) is a prototypical city of the future. Moreover, according to scholars, a smart city is also sustainable city. Nonetheless, the environmental aspects of urban sustainability are often de-emphasized in favor of discourses around the technical characteristics of SC technologies. In order to integrate the two, the article introduces the notion of a smart green city (SGC) in which technological means and environmental outcomes are in sustainable balance. SGC is presented here as a unifying concept integrating smart city and green city concepts through the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) framework. To illustrate the positive synergy between a city's greenness and smartness, we derive operational definitions of both based on the online media's attention to the related technology and sustainability initiatives. After calculating the two indices for all the cities worldwide with over one million inhabitants (498 cities), regression analysis is performed to determine the strength and direction of the relationships between a city's greenness and smartness. We find that a city's greenness is positively related to its smartness. Principal component analysis reveals a potential relationship between a city's population and the two indices. In particular, a large city's population negatively affects its greenness but positively affects its smartness. A joint index of smartness and greenness is negatively related to a city's population. Hence, the containment of uncontrolled urban growth is critical for successfully implementing SGC initiatives. The analysis results are of use to policy-makers, city managers, and planners intending to integrate the ESG framework into their future urban development strategies. Moreover, to our knowledge, a joint evaluation of a city's greenness and smartness has never been performed before on the inter-regional level of analysis. Accordingly, such a holistic assessment can be of methodological interest to scholars of smart and sustainable cities.
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Swami, Viren; Voracek, Martin, Furnham, Adrian, Robinson, Charlotte & Tran, Ulrich S.
(2023)
Support for weight-related anti-discrimination laws and policies: Modelling the role of attitudes toward poverty alongside weight stigma, causal attributions about weight, and prejudice
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In the present study, we sought to position support for weight-related anti-discrimination laws and policies within a broader political and socioeconomic context. Specifically, we hypothesised that individualistic (rather than structural) anti-poverty attitudes would provide the basis for negative weight-related dispositions. To test this hypothesis, we asked 392 respondents from the United Kingdom to complete measures of support for weight-related anti-discrimination laws and policies, attributions about the causes of being larger-bodied, and weight-related stigma and prejudice. Path analysis with robust maximum likelihood estimation indicated that greater individualistic anti-poverty attitudes were significantly and directly associated with lower support for weight-related anti-discrimination laws and policies. This direct association was also significantly mediated by weight-related stigma and via a serial mediation involving both weight-related stigma and prejudice. Although greater individualistic anti-poverty attitudes were significantly associated with greater personal attributions for being larger-bodied, the latter did not emerge as a significant mediation pathway. The present findings highlight the importance of considering broader political and socioeconomic contextual factors that may provide a basis for the development, maintenance, and manifestation of negative weight-related dispositions.
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Dries, Nicky & Kaše, Robert
(2023)
Do employees find inclusive talent management fairer? It depends. Contrasting self-interest and principle
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In this paper, we critically examine the assumption that most employees, and especially those not identified as talents, find exclusive talent management less fair than inclusive talent management. Across two factorial survey studies—one of which manipulates talent status experimentally (N = 300), the other using field data on meta-perceived talent ratings (N = 209)—we examine the extent to which the perceived fairness of talent management is predicted by self-interest (i.e., the extent to which you yourself are seen as talented) versus principle (i.e., a dispositional preference for equality-vs. merit-based allocations). We found a clear effect of talent status, indicating that perceived fairness is at least partly determined by self-interest (i.e., whether one personally stands to gain or lose from exclusive talent management). We also found an effect for preferred allocation norm—implying that fairness perceptions are influenced by matters of principle, independently from self-interest—but only on the boundary condition that organizations provide a transparent justification for their chosen (inclusive or exclusive) talent philosophy. Two major gaps are addressed: the lack of data on how employees perceive and experience talent management practices, and the inability of common study designs to make causal claims.
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Horne, George & Furnham, Adrian
(2023)
Social Distancing and Shopping Behaviour: The Role of Anxiety, Attention, and Awareness on Safety Preferences while Queuing during the COVID-19 Pandemic
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH), 20(5).
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10.3390/ijerph20054589
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic increased global anxiety, and many people shopped less frequently. This study quantifies customer preferences in where to shop while following social distancing regulations, specifically focusing on customers’ anxiety. Collecting data online from 450 UK participants, we measured trait anxiety, COVID-19 anxiety, queue awareness, and queue safety preferences. Confirmatory factor analyses were used to develop novel queue awareness and queue safety preference variables from new items. Path analyses tested the hypothesised relationships between them. Queue awareness and COVID-19 anxiety were positive predictors of queue safety preference, with queue awareness partially mediating the effect of COVID-19 anxiety. These results suggest that customers’ preferences for shopping at one business and not another may depend on safe queueing and waiting conditions, especially in those more anxious about COVID-19 transmission. Interventions that target highly aware customers are suggested. Limitations are acknowledged and areas for future development are outlined.
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Bonab, Aysan Bashirpour; Fedele, Maria, Formisano, Vincenzo & Rudko, Ihor
(2023)
In complexity we trust: A systematic literature review of urban quantum technologies
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Today's cities are facing increasingly complex challenges. The growing uncertainty and complexity—caused by the unremitted differentiation of social, environmental, and technological orders—call for novel ways of conceptualizing urban reality. Although technology-oriented solutions shape the most efficient strategies to manage complexity in contemporary cities, ensuring an effective transition toward a Quantum City paradigm can grant considerable advantages for city administrators and managers facing looming urban challenges. In this article, we introduce the Quantum City metaphor—grounded in fundamental notions of quantum mechanics—as a new conceptual lens for investigating urban complexity. We then build upon the metaphor, theorizing a set of assumptions grounded in three fundamental concepts of quantum theory: relativity, uncertainty, and duality/parallelism. Finally, we propose an empirical conceptualization of Quantum Cities based on the concrete adoption of quantum technologies to deal with urban complexity. This is achieved through a systematic literature review of scholarly records on quantum technologies in the context of social sciences, emphasizing related urban problematics and challenges. Principal component analysis and agglomerative hierarchical clustering reveal two types of quantum technologies most useful for city planners and managers: quantum communication and quantum computing. Accordingly, we perform a qualitative thematic synthesis of related scholarly records, emphasizing the negative and positive aspects of both types of urban quantum technologies.
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Ryu, Young-Ju; Okten, Irmak Olcaysoy, Gollwitzer, Anton & Oettingen, Gabriele
(2023)
Intellectual humility predicts COVID-19 preventive practices through greater adoption of data-driven information and feelings of responsibility
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Preventive health practices have been crucial to mitigating viral spread during the COVID-19 pandemic. In two studies, we examined whether intellectual humility—openness to one's existing knowledge being inaccurate—related to greater engagement in preventive health practices (social distancing, handwashing, mask-wearing). In Study 1, we found that intellectually humble people were more likely to engage in COVID-19 preventive practices. Additionally, this link was driven by intellectually humble people's tendency to adopt information from data-driven sources (e.g., medical experts) and greater feelings of responsibility over the outcomes of COVID-19. In Study 2, we found support for these relationships over time (2 weeks). Additionally, Study 2 showed that the link between intellectual humility and preventive practices was driven by a greater tendency to adopt data-driven information when encountering it, rather than actively seeking out such information. These findings reveal the promising role of intellectual humility in making well-informed decisions during public health crises.
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Sumanth, John J.; Černe, Matej, Hannah, Sean T. & Skerlavaj, Miha
(2023)
Fueling the Creative Spark: How Authentic Leadership and LMX Foster Employees’ Proactive Orientation and Creativity
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Creativity is a critical determinant of organizations’ abilities to compete and perform in rapidly changing and complex contexts. Though scholars have identified several contextual factors, such as leadership, that motivate employees’ creative performance, the psychological mechanisms and boundary conditions underpinning this relationship are relatively unknown. Drawing on social exchange theory, we propose that a proactive orientation, a psychological state rooted in the cognitive and behavioral process of setting a proactive goal and striving to achieve it, is a critical mechanism linking authentic leadership to employees’ creativity. Across two field studies of working professionals in Central Europe and the U.S., we show how authentic leadership fuels employees’ creative performance through a proactive orientation and introduce leader–member exchange (LMX) as an important moderator of this mediated relationship. In Study 1, using a sample of European manufacturing employees, we find support for the mediating role of a proactive orientation linking authentic leadership to creative performance, above, and beyond the effects of ethical leadership. In Study 2, using a sample of university staff, we replicate this finding and extend it by highlighting the moderating role of LMX on the authentic leadership-proactive orientation relationship.
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Ding, Haien
(2023)
Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Search Target, Reflection on the Top-Down Approach, and Introduction of the Bottom-Up Approach
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Based on the INUS theory of causality, the search target of qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) is to find all the minimally sufficient conditions for the outcome’s occurrence in a data set, where the condition’s sufficiency, the necessity of the condition’s components, and the completeness of the solution are three core requirements. However, QCA’s current top-down approach, which relies on a truth table and Boolean minimization, cannot meet the main objective of QCA. Conditions generated by the top-down approach can be insufficient for the outcome or contain unnecessary components that can be removed. We found evidence supporting our arguments by examining the correctness of top-down QCA in Study 1. Then, we show that QCA can also proceed with a “bottom-up” search strategy in sufficiency analysis, similar to coincidence analysis (CNA). We contrast solutions of the top-down and bottom-up QCA approaches by analyzing a simulated crisp-set data set in Study 2 and a real-world fuzzy-set data set in Study 3. Both results show that only the bottom-up approach can produce all the minimally sufficient conditions. We contribute to the ongoing debate pertain QCA solution types and QCA algorithms by critically evaluating the limitations of QCA’s top-down approach and introducing a bottom-up approach for QCA.
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Skerlavaj, Miha; Černe, Matej & Batistič, Saša
(2023)
Knowledge Hiding in Organizations: Meta-Analysis 10 Years Later
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A decade since the seminal paper on knowledge hiding in organizations (Connelly et al., 2012) emerged, this research area has witnessed rapid evolution, resulting in a fragmentation of the field and conceptual proliferation. Given the increasing interest in knowledge hiding, this study complements a set of recently published (systematic) literature reviews and proposes an organizing framework (nomological network) for antecedents and consequences of knowledge hiding, and tests it using meta-analytic procedures. Based on an effect analysis drawn from 131 studies and 147 samples, comprising 47,348 participants, the relationships between knowledge hiding and different antecedent and consequence categories are examined. The results generally support expected relationships across the vast majority of categories of knowledge-hiding antecedents, including job characteristics, leadership, attitudes and motivations, working context, personality, and individual differences. Knowledge hiding is related to outcomes, including creativity, task performance, incivility, deviance, and deterioration of workplace behavior. We also provide comprehensive empirical evidence to support the conceptual claim that knowledge hiding is not correlated with knowledge sharing. We have also tested mediations of the most salient antecedents of knowledge hiding. Through our meta-analytic review, we hope to solidify and redirect the trajectory of the growing and maturing knowledge-hiding domain after its first decade of existence.
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Furnham, Adrian & Horne, George
(2023)
The perceived usefulness of a degree as a function of discipline
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Over 500 British respondents rated the extent to which a degree in 35 different subjects/disciplines (Anthropology to Zoology) would lead to useful skills acquisition and thence a well-paid job. These ratings factored into five groups: Social/Applied Natural Sciences and Humanities; Professional and Applied STEM; Languages; People and Information Management; and Pure Science. These ratings were then related to eight individual difference variables (demography, ideology, self-evaluations) through correlational and regression analysis. Applied STEM and Pure Science factors were considered the most useful (with minimal disagreement), whereas there were a number of demographic correlates on the factors considered to be less useful. Speculations are made about the origin and validity of these beliefs. Implications of these results, and limitations are acknowledged.
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Olsen, Olav Kjellevold; Ågotnes, Kari Wik, Hetland, Jørn, Espevik, Roar & Ravnagner, Conrad Alexander
(2023)
Virtual team-cooperation from home-office: a quantitative diary study of the impact of daily transformational- and passive-avoidant leadership – and the moderating role of task interdependence
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During the Covid-19 pandemic, most of the workforce moved from office setting to home-office and virtual teamwork. Whereas the relationship between leadership and team cooperation in physical settings is well documented – less is known about how daily virtual team cooperation is influenced by daily constructive as well as destructive leadership, and how intervening mechanisms influence this relationship. In the present study, we test the direct effect of daily transformational- and passive avoidant leadership, respectively, on the daily quality of virtual team cooperation – and the moderating effect of task interdependence. Using virtual team cooperation as outcome, we hypothesized that (a) transformational leadership relates positively to virtual team cooperation, (b) passive-avoidant leadership relates negatively, and (c) moderated by task interdependence. Our hypotheses were tested in a 5-day quantitative diary study with 58 convenience sampled employees working from home in virtual teams. The results show that virtual team cooperation is a partially malleable process – with 28% variation in daily virtual team cooperation resulting from within team variation from day to day. Surprisingly, the results of multilevel modeling lend support only to the first hypothesis (a). Taken together, our findings suggest that in virtual settings, inspirational and development-oriented transformational leadership plays a key role in daily team cooperation, while passive-avoidance has little impact – independently of task interdependence. Hence, in virtual team settings, the study shows that “good is stronger than bad” – when comparing the negative effects of destructive leadership to the positive effect of constructive and inspirational leadership. We discuss the implications of these findings for further research and practice.
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Gottschalk, Petter
(2023)
Reducing Financial Crime Convenience for Sustainable Finance: A Case Study of Danske Bank in Estonia
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Beham, Barbara; Cho, Eunae, da Silva, Bruna Coden, Dawkins, Sarah, Escribano, Pablo I., Gudeta, Konjit Hailu, Huang, Ting-pang, Jaga, Ameeta, Kost, Dominique, Kurowska, Anna, Leon, Emmanuelle, Ollier-Malaterre, Ariane, Lewis, Suzan, Lu, Chang-qin, Martin, Angela, Morandin, Gabriele, Noboa, Fabrizio, Offer, Shira, Ohu, Eugene, Peters, Pascale, Rajadhyaksha, Ujvala, Russo, Marcello, Allen, Tammy D., Sohn, Young Woo, Straub, Caroline, Tammelin, Mia, Triki, Leila, van Engen, Marloes L., Waismel-Manor, Ronit, Baierl, Andreas, Alexandrova, Matilda, Artiawati, T., Beauregard, T. Alexandra, Carvalho, Vania Sofia & Chambel, Maria José
(2023)
Humane Orientation, Work–Family Conflict, and Positive Spillover Across Cultures
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Although cross-national work–family research has made great strides in recent decades, knowledge accumulation on the impact of culture on the work–family interface has been hampered by a limited geographical and cultural scope that has excluded countries where cultural expectations regarding work,
family, and support may differ. We advance this literature by investigating work–family relationships in a broad range of cultures, including understudied regions of the world (i.e., Sub-Saharan Africa, Southern Asia). We focus on humane orientation (HO), an overlooked cultural dimension that is however central to the
study of social support and higher in those regions. We explore its moderating effect on relationships between work and family social support, work–family conflict, and work–family positive spillover. Building on the congruence and compensation perspectives of fit theory, we test alternative hypotheses on a sample of 10,307 participants from 30 countries/territories. We find HO has mostly a compensatory role in the relationships between workplace support and work-to-family conflict. Specifically, supervisor and coworker supports were most strongly and negatively related to conflict in cultures in which support is most needed (i.e., lower HO cultures). Regarding positive spillover, HO has mostly an amplifying role. Coworker (but not supervisor) support was most strongly and positively related to work-to-family positive spillover in higher HO cultures, where providing social support at work is consistent with the societal practice of providing support to one another. Likewise, instrumental (but not emotional) family support was most strongly and positively related to family-to-work positive spillover in higher HO cultures.
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van Marrewijk, Alfons; Sankaran, Shankar, Drouin, Nathalie & Müller, Ralf Josef
(2023)
Climbing to the top: Personal life stories on becoming megaproject leaders
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This paper captures a better understanding of the career development of people leading megaprojects through the use of biographical research method. The characteristics of megaprojects cause serious and diverse challenges for their leaders, but programs where they are trained to overcome these challenges are not easily available around the world. We used a biographic research to gather sixteen life histories of megaproject leaders from ten different countries. This approach helps to explore megaproject leaders as people and how they have learned to become leaders. Findings show that leaders learned to manage megaprojects through a lifetime interaction of: (1) personal characteristics of leaders, (2) turning points in their lives, (3) value orientations stemming from their family, region or religion, (4) their relationship to the project team, and (5) their professionalization through a diversity of projects. These findings add to our knowledge on leaders’ career development that this not only depends on individual agency but also on contextual influences which span a lifetime. Furthermore, the findings contribute to the debate on narrative inquiry methods by demonstrating the full potential of biographical research method for understanding megaproject leadership. Finally, the findings contribute to the debate on megaprojects leaders with real accounts of how people have become leaders through self-development.
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Vaagaasar, Anne Live; Dille, Therese & Hernes, Tor
(2023)
Temporality
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This chapter attempts to broaden the understanding of the potential of temporality in project management research. First, we illuminate temporality with respect to the temporariness of projects, the project life-cycle, and the role of entrainment in projects. Then, we outline aspects of the ontology of temporality and how it can inform complex project organizing. The ontology of temporality considers projects as highly embedded in multiple temporal flows where past, present, and future are understood as mutually constitutive rather than sequentially ordered. Such a perspective allows for exploring the effects of projects being situated in time and emerging over time. As projects move through time actors weave past, present, and future together in a manner that changes the project over time.
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Fosse, Thomas Hol; Martinussen, Monica, Sørlie, Henrik, Skogstad, Anders, Martinsen, Øyvind L. & Einarsen, Ståle Valvatne
(2023)
Neuroticism as an antecedent of abusive supervision and laissez-faire leadership in emergent leaders: The role of facets and agreeableness as a moderator
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Academic interest in the relationship between leaders' personality and subordinates’ perception of destructive leadership behavior is increasing. However, results so far have been weak, contradictory, and inconsistent to theory. Here, we examine if using facets of neuroticism, rather than the broader trait, can be more informative and increases the predictive power. Next, we explore the interplay between personality dimensions by examining if the relationship between the facet angry hostility in neuroticism and destructive leadership behavior is moderated by the trait agreeableness. Four hundred and twenty emergent leaders were examined in a military selection context, combining the leaders' self-rated neuroticism (T1) with subordinates' subsequent perception of abusive supervision and laissez-faire leadership in a field exercise two weeks later (T2). The results indicated that using facets instead of the broad factor of neuroticism improved the prediction of examined outcomes. Only some of the facets of neuroticism were related to perceived leader behavior, with specific facets being identified for abusive supervision and laissez-faire leadership, respectively. Further, the relationship between angry hostility and both leadership styles was moderated by agreeableness.
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Sainati, Tristano; Locatelli, Giorgio & Mignacca, Benito
(2023)
Social sustainability of energy infrastructures: The role of the programme governance framework
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The energy infrastructure literature focuses on the economic and environmental dimensions of sustainability, neglecting the social dimension. Particularly obscure is how the programme governance frameworks of energy projects and programmes shape their social performance. We address this gap in knowledge by leveraging a cross-case analysis of comparable energy infrastructures planned and delivered in contexts with different programme governance frameworks (i.e., Iran, Italy, Nigeria, Norway, Saudi Arabia, and the USA). This article first clarifies how investigating social sustainability at the infrastructure/project level is inadequate, showing that the overarching programme governance framework - set at the country level - is a major driver for social sustainability. Second, this article identifies three perspectives to examine the link between the programme governance framework and social sustainability: 1) Types of contracts, 2) Leadership of the infrastructure programme, and 3) Maturity of the legal and regulatory framework. These perspectives are combined to provide a novel analytical framework, useful to both examine the present status and plan future energy infrastructures. Last, this article discusses the findings from a policy perspective deriving a research agenda.
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Jevnaker, Birgit Helene & Olaisen, Johan Leif
(2023)
Reimagining Power and Micro-politics in Project Organizations
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The empirically investigated problem of our paper is what impact do micropolitics and power have on project management in an organization? Informal power and micropolitics played a massive role in the projects, and personal and relational knowledge appeared in all projects to achieve the expected results. The project manager uses personal networks, personal relations, and mentor's network with cognitive, affective, and emotional influence as power and politics if needed to achieve expected results. Power and micropolitics were necessary skills and tools for a successful project manager. The findings relate to the manager's intentions. The informal power and micro-politics process are reused in every project because informal power and micropolitics are a part of project work. Power accumulation and wise handling are essential leadership tools for every manager. Employees work for managers who have power over those who do not. The former can get them what they want: visibility, upwards mobility, and resources. Micropolitics and power represent a unique competence (i.e., knowledge, experiences, and attitudes) and tool for handling any project. Power is significantly underrated as a tool to control and govern projects. Micropolitics is a part of that tool to get the decisions the project leader wants, maybe with future promises. A democratic and consensus-oriented decision process opens for power games and micropolitics rather than hedging them in more hierarchical organizations. A complex matrix organization involving employees in many projects is also open to micropolitics and power. Micropolitics and power might prolong and complicate decision-making processes in ordinary projects and improve processes in fast-track projects. Micropolitics and power both increase and reduce the effectiveness and efficiency of an organization. The higher complexity, the higher returns on using power and micro-politics to get the expected project results.
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Furnham, Adrian & Robinson, Charlotte
(2023)
Correlates of beliefs about, and solutions to, the problem of evil
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This study explored people’s attitudes towards various explanations for the theological Problem of Evil. Five hundred adults rated the importance of 16 possible solutions to the Problem of Evil. Participants also indicated their religious and political beliefs, their Belief in a Just World and their endorsement of Conspiracy Theories. Results showed that many differences in ratings were a function of religious beliefs and belief in the afterlife. The 16 solutions were subjected to a factor analysis which revealed three factors labelled Deistic, Luck and Chance, and Human Behaviour. Those who claimed to be more religious, and believed in an afterlife, were more likely to support Deistic solutions. These solutions were also supported by younger, less educated, and less intelligent people who believed in the Just World and Conspiracy theories. Just World beliefs were related to Luck/Chance explanations, whereas believing in Conspiracy theories related to Human Behaviour explanations.
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de Jong, Jeroen P.; Nikolova, Irina & Caniëls, Marjolein C. J.
(2023)
Same pond, different frogs: How collective change readiness level and diversity associates with team performance
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Despite the critical importance of teams in organizational change processes, we still know little about how collective change readiness (CR) in teams associates to team outcomes. In this study, we take a multilevel approach to CR and investigate how collective CR associates with team performance. Specifically, we examine (a) how ambivalence between emotional and collective cognitive CR associates with collective intentional CR and (b) how both the level and diversity of collective intentional CR associate to team performance. We test our team-level hypotheses using 59 teams and 366 individual team members. The results show that the levels of collective emotional and cognitive CR interact in their association with intentional CR. Collective intentional CR is the highest when both collective emotional and cognitive CR are high and the lowest under a condition of high collective cognitive CR and low collective emotional CR. Moreover, diversity in collective intentional CR negatively associates to leader-rated team performance. Implications for theory and suggestions for practice are discussed.
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Furnham, Adrian & Cheng, Helen
(2023)
The Big-Five personality factors, cognitive ability, health, and social-demographic indicators as independent predictors of self-efficacy: A longitudinal study
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This study set out to examine to what extent a set of psychological, health and socio-demographic factors are associated with self-efficacy (SE) in a large sample of over 12,000 participants over a two-year period. We were interested in the correlates of self-efficacy (criterion variable) with gender, age, education and occupation, the Big-Five personality factors and cognitive ability, as well as mental and physical health (predictor variables). Regression analyses showed that four of the Big-Five personality factors (extraversion, neuroticism, conscientiousness, and openness), cognitive ability, mental and physical health, gender, education and occupation were all significant and independent predictors of self-efficacy, accounting for 23% of the variance of the outcome variable. Personality variables, particularly Neuroticism and Conscientiousness, were the most powerful predictors of SE two years later. The implications for encouraging SE in individuals are discussed.
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Fenton-O'Creevy, Mark & Furnham, Adrian
(2023)
Personality and wealth
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To what extent do personality traits predict wealth in adulthood over and above standard demographic factors? In all 3240 adults in the UK completed a Big Five personality test and reported on their property wealth, savings and investments, and their physical valuable items. We also had data on their age, education, household income and gender. Correlations and regressions showed that the demographics, particularly age and income were, as expected clearest correlates of wealth. Conscientious was positively and agreeableness, neuroticism and extraversion were negatively associated with savings and investments. The data pointed clearly to conscientiousness as the most important personality trait in wealth accumulation. Implications of these results as well as limitations of the study are discussed.
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Cuppello, Stephen; Treglown, Luke & Furnham, Adrian
(2023)
Intelligence, Personality and Tolerance of Ambiguity
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In this study, 3836 adults completed a personality test (the HPTI) and a multidimensional intelligence test (GIA). Two prominent theories that link personality traits to intelligence (compensation and investment) were tested. There were more sex differences in the personality traits than in the IQ scores. Correlational and regression analyses results provided little evidence for either theory but pointed to the role of tolerance of ambiguity as a consistently significant, positive correlate of IQ at both the facet and domain levels. The role of this neglected trait is discussed. Limitations of various aspects of this study and its implications are considered.
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Arnulf, Jan Ketil & Johansen, Rino Bandlitz
(2023)
Hvor går veien videre?
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Johansen, Rino Bandlitz & Arnulf, Jan Ketil
(2023)
Introduksjon: Forsvarets utvikling av ledere og ledelse- en nødvendig del av profesjonen eller et lappverk for spesielt interesserte?
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Arnulf, Jan Ketil
(2023)
Kontekstavhengig militær ledelse
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Steindórsdóttir, Bryndís Dögg & Dysvik, Anders
(2023)
Career success through horizontal career transitions: an example from a Norwegian organization
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Boustani, Lynn; Furnham, Adrian & Grover, Simmy
(2023)
Openness to Experience, Fluid Intelligence and Secondary Psychopathology
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The present study tests the idea that individuals high on both trait Openness-to-Experience and fluid intelligence can suffer from an overactive mental state that depletes cognitive capability and leads to restless and impulsive behavior. In all, 118 participants (58 females, 59 males) were tested using the multidimensional assessment of fluid intelligence (GIA), an Open-to-Experience trait measure (HEXACO), and Levenson's secondary psychopathy questionnaire. Although analysis of variance (ANOVA) analyses revealed no interaction between Openness and fluid intelligence, an examination of the lower-order items of Openness and GIA revealed significant interactions in the female sample, particularly with esthetic appreciation. The results also suggest Openness as a unique predictor of secondary psychopathy, however the same does not hold true for fluid intelligence. The findings are discussed in relation to personnel selection procedures. Key considerations for attention capacity and activation theory are proposed. Sample size limitations are acknowledged.
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Furnham, Adrian & Cuppello, Stephen
(2023)
Maladaptive (dark-side) and adaptive (bright-side) personality traits and defense styles
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This study explores the relationship between bright- and dark-side personality traits and four major styles of
defense mechanisms (DMs) as this relationship remains unexplored and important in understanding the DMs. In
all, 435 adult working participants (241 men; 194 women; Mean age 46.06 yrs) mainly in middle management
jobs, completed a 78-item, six-trait measure of bright-side personality (HPTI: High Potential Type Indicator), a
25-item five-trait measure of the dark-side personality (PID-5;BF: DSM-5—Brief Form) and 88-item, four-styles
measure of defense mechanisms (Defense Style Questionnaire). The aim was to examine demographic (sex,
age, education), ideological and personality trait correlates of the DMs. It was hypothesized that the dark-side
traits, particularly Detachment would be most strongly related to the DMs. Thereafter, a hierarchical linear
regression was performed with each DM factor as criterion and predictors being demography, ideology, selfesteem as well as bright- and dark-side personality traits. Detachment was associated with all DMs, particularly Maladaptive (r = 0.68) and Image Distorting Style (r = 0.38) while Conscientiousness was associated with
none. One implication concerns the assessment of DMs by standard tests. Limitations are acknowledged and
include method invariance and sample homogeneity.
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Villanova, Ana Luisa; Pina e Cunha, Miguel & Carlsen, Arne
(2023)
How Crisis May Generate and Sustain Creative Cycles: The Role of Problem Persistence
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We performed an inductive study to advance theory on how a crisis can inspire individuals to be persistently creative in successive cycles. We draw from rich data of 17 volunteer projects in the Tech4Covid movement, a Portuguese organization of entrepreneurs who gathered online to develop digital solutions to help society during the COVID-19 pandemic. This empirical context is uniquely suited to study how interactions with intended beneficiaries during crises can encourage creators to initiate and continue creative work. Our results allowed us to extend the knowledge of crisis-induced creative processes in two ways. First, we noticed that throughout the creative process, creators might switch the primary focus of their work from outside beneficiaries to their own benefit. These changes can serve as a trigger to reinforce creators' motivations to continue their creative work beyond the first set of creative outputs. Second, we propose that the nature of the problem to be solved influences the continuity of creative processes: while momentary problems induced by the crisis may stimulate episodic ideas, their transitory nature may prevent creators from having time to fully develop their ideas further. Thus, it is primarily persistent problems that favor the progress of ideas in successive creative cycles.
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Olaisen, Johan Leif & Jevnaker, Birgit Helene
(2023)
A Comparative Study of ECKM Papers 2017-2022
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze and compare all the academic papers in the proceedings of ECKM in 2017 (Barcelona), 2018 (Padua), 2019 (Lisbon), and the digital conferences in 2020 and 2021. In 2022, the conference was arranged in Naples as a digital conference. The study classifies the papers according to methodology, analysis, discussion, and conclusion regarding their contribution to the four paradigmatic boxes. The approach uses the five philosophy of science framework and compares this to the content of the research papers. We will use the findings in four representations of knowledge, two typologies of concepts, four paradigmatic classifications, and the concluding framework for knowledge management research. The five conferences heavily emphasize knowledge-itis and instrumental itis and much less on problem-itis. The papers are mostly centered around existing knowledge and accepted methodology and are less related to new problems. The results indicate a conference based upon as-is knowledge and less upon new and often unsolvable issues. The ECKM academic papers in 2017, 2018, and 2019 have relatively low complexity and are presented in an empirical and materialistic paradigmatic framework through definitive concepts representing a form of atomistic research. The papers in 2020, 2021, and especially 2022 are delivered within a more robust, clarified subjectivity and action research-based framework through definitive and sensitizing concepts. What would ECKM have been with more complexity in action and subjective paradigmatic framework through sensitizing concepts representing holistic research? A more creative, engaged, and relevant conference. It will also be a more scientific conference discussing what is acceptable or not acceptable and what is adequate. Studies concerning sustainability, digitalization, and globalization might require another research approach. The more critical and green papers in the 2020 and 2021 conferences are open to new perspectives on methodology, problems, and knowledge. The 2021 and 2022 conferences represent a turning point for critical sustainability and digitalization papers that clarify subjectivity through action-based research. The 2021 and 2022 papers represent the turning point of ECKM into improved relevance through more critical and constructed studies based on the societal climate crisis and sustainable strategies and business models.
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Baugerud, Gunn Astrid & Kopperud, Karoline
(2023)
Utbrenthet, sekundærtraumatisering og arbeidsglede i barnevernet
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Juarez Cornelio, Jose Rodrigo; Sainati, Tristano & Locatelli, Giorgio
(2023)
Digging in the megaproject's graveyard: Why do megaprojects die, and how to check their health?
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Saksvik-Lehouillier, Ingvild & Sørengaard, Torhild Anita
(2023)
Comparing shift work tolerance across occupations, work arrangements, and gender
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Background: There are individual differences in shift work tolerance; however, we lack knowledge about how this is experienced across different occupations, sex and shift types.
Aims: The aim was to describe and investigate shift work tolerance, and individual differences in shift work tolerance, in two occupations, between men and women and between day/evening workers and rotating shift workers.
Methods: Cross-sectional questionnaire study. The sample was comprised of 315 retail workers and 410 police employees.
Results Shift work tolerance was higher among police employees compared to retail workers, among men compared to women, and among day workers compared to evening/rotating shift workers. The difference was larger between occupations than between sex and shift type. Evening workers had more symptoms of shift work intolerance than rotating shift workers. Neuroticism and autonomy were related to all symptoms of shift work tolerance among retail workers, but not police employees.
Conclusions: It is important to consider the type of occupation and the work context when tailoring work arrangements to the
individual.
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Gottschalk, Petter
(2023)
How Convenient is Deviance to Circumvent and Evasion Sanctions Against Russia? The Case of Alleged Economic Crime in a Norwegian Seafood Company
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When Russia attacked Ukraine, national states as well as multinational bodies such as the European Union imposed economic sanctions against Russia. Companies in sanctioning countries were expected to terminate their business with companies in the sanctioned country. However, the threat of bankruptcy made some companies chose deviance to circumvent and evasion sanctions. The case study in this paper describes an insurance firm’s attempt to terminate an insurance arrangement to avoid allegations of money laundering. The ownership of a seafood company in Norway had been transferred from Russians to a Norwegian. However, it seemed that the Russians were still the real owners since the Norwegian had paid nothing for the ownership. This paper presents the civil trial in the case and discusses convenience propositions for the Norwegian based on convenience theory in the dimensions of motive, opportunity, and willingness for deviance.
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van Zelderen, Anand; Dries, Nicky & Marescaux, Elise
(2023)
Talents Under Threat: The Anticipation of Being Ostracized by Non-Talents Drives Talent Turnover
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Based on social identity theory, exclusive talent programs can be understood to divide employees into two groups—‘talents’ versus ‘non-talents’—creating a setting where ostracism may occur. Using 360°-video vignettes (Study 1; N = 184) and text vignettes (Study 2 and 3; N = 243 and 573) we recreate a fictional HR board meeting and trouble three assumptions commonly held in the talent management literature: First, does exclusive talent management indeed lead to a feeling of exclusion and turnover amongst non-talents? Second, do emotional reactions to talent management spill over between employees? Third, does transparent communication reduce negative employee reactions, as is often assumed? We found that employees identified as talents in fact anticipate more ostracism by non-talents than vice versa, increasing talents’ intention to quit. However, this effect only occurred when non-talents displayed contrastive emotional responses to talent programs (e.g., resentment), not when they displayed assimilative responses (e.g., admiration). In addition, talents’ anticipation of being ostracized by non-talents was also found to be reduced when organizations implemented talent management secrecy. This study addresses researchers’ and practitioners’ concerns about talent retention and provides theoretical and practical implications for the field of workforce differentiation, social identity theory, and organizational intergroup conflicts.
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Allen, Tammy; Cho, Eunae, da Silva, Bruna Coden, Dawkins, Sarah, Escribano, Pablo, Gudeta, Konjit Hailu, Huang, Ting-pang, Jaga, Ameeta, Kost, Dominique, Kurowska, Anna, Leon, Emmanuelle, Beham, Barbara, Lewis, Suzan, Lu, Chang-qin, Martin, Angela, Morandin, Gabriele, Noboa, Fabrizio, Offer, Shira, Ohu, Eugene, Peters, Pascale, Rajadhyaksha, Ujvala, Russo, Marcello, Ollier-Malaterre, Ariane, Sohn, Young Woo, Straub, Caroline, Tammelin, Mia, van Engen, Marloes, Waismel-Manor, Ronit, Baierl, Andreas, Alexandrova, Matilda, Artiawati, T., Beauregard, Alexandra, Carvalho, Vania Sofia & Chambel, Maria José
(2023)
Boundary management preferences from a gender and cross-cultural perspective
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Although work is increasingly globalized and mediated by technology, little research has accumulated on the role of culture in shaping individuals' preferences regarding the segmentation or integration of their work and family roles. This study examines the relationships between gender egalitarianism (the extent a culture has a fluid understanding of gender roles and promotes gender equality), gender, and boundary management preferences across 27 countries/territories. Based on a sample of 9362 employees, we found that the pattern of the relationship between gender egalitarianism and boundary management depends on the direction of segmentation preferences. Individuals from more gender egalitarian societies reported lower preferences to segment family-from-work (i.e., protect the work role from the family role); however, gender egalitarianism was not directly associated with preferences to segment work-from-family. Moreover, gender was associated with both boundary management directions such that women preferred to segment family-from-work and work-from-family more so than did men. As theorized, we found gender egalitarianism moderated the relationship between gender and segmentation preferences such that women's desire to protect family from work was stronger in lower (vs. higher) gender egalitarianism cultures. Contrary to expectations, women reported a greater preference to protect work from family than men regardless of gender egalitarianism. Implications for boundary management theory and the cross-national work-family literature are discussed.
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Clegg, Stewart Roger; Loosemore, Martin, Walker, Derek, van marrewijk, Alfons & Sankaran, Shankar
(2023)
Construction Cultures: Sources, Signs and Solutions of Toxicity
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van marrewijk, Alfons
(2023)
Cultural practices for governing megaprojects
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Furnham, Adrian
(2023)
Correlates of Self-Assessed Creativity
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Stoknes, Per Espen; Aslaksen, Iulie, Goluke, Ulrich, Randers, Jørgen & Garnåsjordet, Per Arild
(2023)
Plausible futures for the Norwegian offshore energy sector: Business as usual, harvest or rebuild?
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Cadigan, Françoise; Dries, Nicky & van Zelderen, Anand
(2023)
Conceptualizing and operationalizing 'inclusive' talent management: four different approaches
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van Zelderen, Anand; Dries, Nicky & Marescaux, Elise
(2023)
The war for talent
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Managers and academics have been locked in debate for the past decade on how talent management is best approached to elicit favourable employee outcomes. Arguments made to alter talent programs to appease employees, however, rest on nothing but mere conjecture. Relevant psychological theories, such as social comparisons, can explain why specific talent management trends will instead lead to negative employee reactions and may actually end up doing the organisation more harm than good. We therefore apply a critical lens in this article on exclusive talent management practices to empirically investigate how employees—both ‘talents’ and ‘non-talents’—respond to the introduction of a talent program, how talent programs are ideally implemented to foster professional growth amongst employees, and which steps HR-professionals can undertake to enhance favourable employee outcomes and limit negative employee reactions.
In order to discuss the above topics, this article refers to the doctoral dissertation of Anand van Zelderen, who conducted six studies to investigate employee reactions to talent management. In the first three studies it was found that less exclusive talent programs lead to more negative employee reactions, with managers incorrectly predicting the exact opposite. The two follow-up studies showed that ‘non-talents’ are more motivated to try and be identified as a ‘talent’ themselves in future rounds of the program when they believe the implementation of these talent programs is fair. Finally, from the last study it could be concluded that talents are likely to feel socially excluded within a talent management context, thereby increasing their intentions to leave the organisation. Based on these results, several implications for practice have been formulated.
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Dries, Nicky; Luyckx, Joost & Rogiers, Philip
(2023)
Imagining the (Distant) Future of Work.