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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Work Behaviors"”.
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Outdoor adventures, self-efficacy, and proactive work behaviors
The modern work environment is characterized by continuous changes involving mergers, acquisitions, downsizing, and organizational restructuring. To persevere in this context, employees are now implicitly required to demonstrate more proactivity when carrying out their job functions. Although …
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Meta-Analytic and Experience Sampling Investigations Into the Structure of Work Behaviors
… is, however, a sound rationale for examining work behavior over time, rather than only across people (as Study 1 did). Study 2 therefore uses an experience sampling design to observe variation in work behavior in situ. Proportions of within-person variance, extent of similarity and …
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Good Deeds Gone Wrong: How Leader Self-Sacrifice Morally Licenses Followers Counterproductive Work Behaviors
… encouraging similar behavior within their workforce. While LSS is typically perceived as a positive behavior that inspires ethical conduct and teamwork, not all employees may respond positively. According to social identity theory, group members might take on the attributes of their close …
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Understanding the effect of perceived supervisor unavailability on job satisfaction, counterproductive work behaviors, and intent to quit
… on employee job satisfaction, counterproductive work behaviors (CWB), and intent to quit. We introduced perceived supervisor unavailability (PSU), as employee's perception that their supervisor is not present, reachable, or responsive when support is needed. Grounded in Job Demands-Resources and …
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Factors associated with work attitudes and work behaviors of secondary agricultural education students in selected counties in Virginia
Literature illustrates that work attitudes and work behaviors of young agricUltural workers are of major concern to employers, even exceeding their concern about academic skills students bring to the work environment. Little consistency is found in the research about the relationships of various …
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The application of a person-oriented criterion-related configural approach to the relationship between personality traits and work behaviors
… agreeableness, and conscientiousness) with work criteria, demonstrating that personality is a consistent predictor of work outcomes of interest. However, the existing research literature has generally utilized a variable-oriented perspective, looking at relationships among variables, with …
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Effects of a Simulation Game on Trainees' Knowledge and Attitudes About Age-related Changes in Learning and Work Behaviors of Older Workers
… help employers create intergenerational-friendly work environments. An experimental pre- and post-test control group randomized block design was employed to answer two research questions about the effects of a simulation game on knowledge and attitudes about age-related changes in learning and …
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Relationships among the perceived and preferred coaching behaviors, job satisfaction, and adaptive work behaviors among employees of a South Korean organization with the quality of relationships with immediate supervisors as a mediating variable
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2023-12-01
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The Interactive Effects Of Citizenship Pressure And Job Embeddedness On Positive And Negative Outcomes Of Engagement
… based on the job demands and resources framework, potential negative antecedent and outcome relationships (i.e., role conflict, role ambiguity, and counterproductive work behaviors); (2) to identify interactions that could negatively impact engagement’s positive outcomes (i.e. citizenship …
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Understanding Nurses' Knowledge Work
… how employees put their knowledge into action at work is essential to successful knowledge management for organizations. Thus, strategies that target nurses’ knowledge work may be more effective for hospitals; particularly in times of mounting fiscal deficits and demands for health services. This …
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A Comparison of Feedforward versus Feedback Interventions for Safety Self-Management in Mining Operations
… intervention to increase safety-related work practices in mining operations. A total of 15 male miners participated in the study while engaging in their normal work practices at the Virginia Tech Quarry, located in Blacksburg, Virginia. The study had two groups, Feedforward …
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Validation of the Development Work Personality Scale for Use With Persons With Disabilities and Chronic Illness
… has led to an increased focus on personality and behaviors as they relate to employment outcomes for the rising number of people living with disabilities and chronic illness. There are a number of well-established and validated theories, models, and instruments that have been implemented to …
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A Leader, a Follower, and Some Humor Walk into a Meta-Analysis: A Review of Positive and Negative Leader Humor
… and quantitative review of the nomological networks of positive and negative leader humor addressed these issues based on a meta-analysis of 67 empirical studies (N = 21,121). Results indicate that positive and negative leader humor are better conceptualized as separate constructs rather than …
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A test of the CWB-OCB emotion-centered model
Discretionary behaviors such as counterproductive work behaviors (CWBs) and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) exist outside of the job description, but these behaviors nevertheless have profound influence on the organization and its members. Using Spector and Fox’s (2002) General OCB-CWB …
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Implications of Perceived Interactional Injustice: A Meta-Analytic Approach
… task performance, organizational citizenship behaviors, and counterproductive work behaviors, using a meta-analytic approach. Result and suggestions for future research to continue the examination of interactional justice and job performance are provided. </p>
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Safe behavior in the workplace: assessing the effects of a feedback and thank you program
… plant for the purpose of increasing safe work behaviors. Safe behaviors increased following the introduction of a Feedback intervention and continued to increase somewhat following the introduction of a Thank You intervention. Safe behaviors decreased when interventions were withdrawn. …
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A Field Quasi-Experiment of the Effects of Employee Input in the Development of Performance Appraisal Systems
… appraisal system on their attitudes and work behaviors. A field quasi-experiment with pre-test and post-test measures was conducted in two plants of an organization. The results, consistent with the hypotheses, show that the employees in the experimental plant report higher proximal …
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Examining the relationship between proactive personality and career success
… employee autonomy and responsibility in today's workforce, proactive behavior and the performance of discretionary, extra-role work behaviors are being recognized as vital to effective organizational functioning. This study examined one mechanism that may explain how proactive personality relates …
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Investigating Organizational Counterproductivity: The Structurally Oppressive Situations Scale
… the proposed construct of counterproductive working conditions as a potential antecedent to justice perceptions, and to evaluate how counterproductive working conditions are related to organizational criteria of interest. To accomplish this aim, this dissertation is split into three studies. …
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