Showing papers in "Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes in 2009"

TL;DR: This article examined the relationship between top management and supervisory ethical leadership and group-level outcomes (e.g., deviance, OCB) and suggested that ethical leadership flows from one organizational level to the next.

TL;DR: A meta-analysis of 62 experimental and 10 non-experimental studies was conducted to evaluate the positive-mood-enhance-creativity generalization as mentioned in this paper, which demonstrated that positive mood enhances creativity, the strength of that effect is contingent upon the comparative or referent mood state (i.e., neutral or negative mood) as well as the type of creative task.

TL;DR: This paper conducted a two-study examination of relationships between abusive supervision and subordinates' workplace deviance, finding that abusive supervision is more strongly associated with subordinates' organization deviance and supervisor-directed deviance when subordinates' intention to quit is higher.

TL;DR: Temporal focus is the attention individuals devote to thinking about the past, present, and future, and the concept is important because it affects how people incorporate perceptions about past experiences, current situations and future expectations into their attitudes, cognitions, and behavior as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: Staw et al. as discussed by the authors found that the positive relationship between abusive supervision and organizational deviance was stronger when authoritarian management style was low (high situational uncertainty) rather than high (low situational uncertainty). No significant interaction effect was found on interpersonal deviance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate that stock-flow failure is a robust phenomenon that appears to be rooted in failure to appreciate the most basic principles of accu- mulation, leading to the use of inappropriate heuristics.

TL;DR: This paper examined the development of leader-member relationships from the initial interaction through the early relationships stages (the first 8 weeks) and found that team member extraversion and leader agreeableness influence the ratings of relationship quality at the initial interactions whereas leader and member performance influence the relationship over time.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined intrinsic motivation as a mediator of the relationship between justice and task performance and found that procedural justice predicted both self-reported and free-choice based measures of intrinsic motivation.

TL;DR: This article found that witnessing rudeness by an authority figure and a peer reduced observers' performance on routine tasks as well as creative tasks, and negative affect mediated the relationships between witnessing the rudeness and performance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated gender differences in the genetic influences on the tendency of people to become entrepreneurs and examined two mediating variables through which genetic factors may impact this tendency: extraversion and neuroticism.

TL;DR: This paper used a sequence of ultimatum and dictator games to study the effect of transient emotions on economic decision-making and found that people often do not realize they are being influenced by an incidental emotional state.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the challenge-hindrance framework to examine the discrete and combined effects of different environmental stressors on behavioral, cognitive, and affective outcomes at the team level.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors find that in environments characterized by random noise, more frequent feedback on previous decisions leads to declines in performance and excessive focus on and more systematic processing of more recent data as well as a failure to adequately compare information across multiple time periods.

TL;DR: The authors found that the presence of abundant wealth led to more frequent cheating than an environment of scarcity, and the potential mechanisms behind this effect also investigated the potential mechanism behind the potential reasons why people engage in unethical behavior.

TL;DR: This paper explores how work design affects individual performance by focusing on the challenge of switching attention from one task to another, and results indicate it is difficult for people to transition their attention away from an unfinished task and their subsequent task performance suffers.

TL;DR: The authors developed and tested a reflection strategy to stimulate deeper learning after feedback, and found that reflection combined with feedback enhanced performance improvement on a web-based work simulation better than feedback alone.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors tested organization-based self-esteem (OBSE) as a mediator of the relation between organizational supports and organizational deviance, using structural equation modeling.

TL;DR: The authors examined how employees' perceptions of specific features of the organizational context (organizational politics and procedural justice) are related to their evaluations of psychological contract breach and subsequent attitudes and behaviors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed that group members' task representations mediate the effect of knowledge about the distribution of information on decision performance, and they also proposed that reflection about the task moderates the effect on knowledge about distributed information through its effect on task representations.

TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that conspicuous consumption serves as a means by which men communicate their social status to prospective mates, and that men's endocrinological responses, particularly their testosterone levels, are responsive to fluctuations in their status as triggered by acts of conspicuous consumption.

TL;DR: This paper examined how perceptions of underlying offender motives affect victims' emotional and behavioral reactions toward their offender and found that victims distinguished between offender malice and greed, and these attributions shaped subsequent emotional reactions, which in turn demonstrated independent relations with revenge, avoidance, and reconciliation.

TL;DR: The effect of both a primed and a conscious goal on performance in the workplace was investigated in this article, which revealed that this primed goal significantly increased the participants' subconscious need for achievement, as measured by a projective test.

TL;DR: This article examined the moral psychology of indirect agency and found that reflective moral judgment is sensitive to indirect agency, but only to the extent that indirectness signals reduced foreknowledge and/or control.

TL;DR: This article applied quantitative genetics techniques to a sample of 851 pairs of monozygotic and 855 pairs of dizygotic female twins to examine the influence of genetic factors on the variation across people in opportunity recognition.

TL;DR: DeSanctis et al. as discussed by the authors examined the influence of organizational context (competitive versus cooperative) and introductory meeting communication medium (face-to-face versus electronic) on the development of trust and collaborative behaviors of dyads communicating electronically.

TL;DR: This article examined the within-person relationship between self-efficacy and performance in an Internet-based stock investment simulation in which participants engaged in a series of stock trading activities trying to achieve performance goals in response to dynamic task environments (performance feedback and stock market movements).

TL;DR: This paper found that the relationship between a wrongdoer's status and observers' attributions is driven by observers' perceptions of the wrongdoers' underlying social motives: high-status wrong doers are presumed to be more interested in their own welfare, and less interested in the welfare of others (other-concerned), than low-status individuals.

TL;DR: For instance, this article found that valuations performed under promotion are more scope-insensitive than those performed under prevention in person-impression formation, product evaluations, and social recommendations.

TL;DR: In this article, a cross-level model of relationships between individual and team motivation and performance has been proposed, which is based on Chen and Kanfer's (2006) multilevel theoretical model of motivation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on cognitive dissonance that arises from adopting or condoning culturally expected behaviors that are inconsistent with the expatriate's own values or attitudes, and propose that dissonance experiences and the methods used for dissonance reduction influence expatriates' adjustment outcomes and, in turn, their tendency for early departure.