Journal of Managerial Psychology: Volume 39 Issue 5

Challengers, not followers? The effect of leaders' perceptions of team overqualification on leaders' empowering behavior

Jing Jiang, Huijuan Dong, Yanan Dong, Yuan Yuan, Xingyong Tu

Although employee overqualification is a common occurrence in the workplace, most research has focused on overqualification at the individual level rather than at the team level…

Perceived overqualification, counterproductive work behaviors and withdrawal: a moderated mediation model

Wen Zhang, Bohang Xia, Daantje Derks, Jan Luca Pletzer, Kimberley Breevaart, Xichao Zhang

Integrating person-job fit theory with the stressor-emotion model of counterproductive work behavior (CWB), the current study aims to examine which behavioral pattern (fight: CWB…

Experiencing the pull and push: influences on independent contractor motivation and job satisfaction

Andrew Miller, Adam Vanhove

Drawing on organismic integration theory, we aim to examine whether the reasons independent contractors choose contract work are related to their on-the-job motivation and job…

Effect of managers' sleep quality on authoritarian leadership dynamics and employees' counterproductive behavior

Rui Jiang, Xinqi Lin

This study examines the antecedents and dynamics of authoritarian leadership and extends the effects of managers' sleep quality to employee behavior.

An approach-inhibition model of shared leadership: the effect of vertical leader’s multi-source power

Zhigang Song, Qinxuan Gu

Drawing on power approach-inhibition theory, this study develops a conditional indirect effect model to explore how team vertical leader position and expert power indirectly…

Relationship between job crafting and emotional exhaustion: focusing on the difference between effects of physical and cognitive crafting

Megumi Ikeda, Satoshi Tanaka, Kaede Kido

Recently, physical crafting has been found to positively affect emotional exhaustion through workload. However, the role of cognitive crafting in this process remains unexamined…

Leading by example: understanding the trickle-down effect of voluntary green behavior in the workplace

Jincen Xiao, Yan Yan, Baifan Li, Shuang Liu

Drawing on the framework of the trickle-down effect and social learning theory, this study aims to examine how and when leaders' voluntary green behavior (VGB) stimulates that of…