International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior: Volume 26 Issue 1/2

Getting to diversity: an examination of the antecedents and outcomes of resistance to diversity-related organizational change

Angela Workman-Stark

The purpose of this study was to investigate the contributors to individual resistance to diversity-related organizational change (DROC) and how it might be reduced.

‘You really struggle not to come across as bitchy if you are trying to be authoritative’ – blokishness, habitus, behaviour and career experiences of women in public relations

Martina Topić

This study aims to analyse the position of women in public relations (PR), using Bourdieu's habitus. The study also draws from works on women in journalism on the…

Culture meets commitment: how organizational culture influences affective commitment

Susann Dunger

Organizational culture has been identified as an important factor in increased employee commitment. Particularly during a shortage of skilled workers, commitment is a meaningful…

Surface acting and work–family conflict: the roles of exhaustion, anxiety and education

Shazia Nauman, Hassan Imam, Ameer A. Basit

This study examines how and under what conditions jobs involving surface acting as key employee performance requirements induce work–family conflict (WFC) and thus negatively…

Exploring team collective voice: the case of software development teams in Vietnam

An L. Hoang, Anh T.T. Phan, Dam X. Dong, Trang T.H. Tran, Chinh T. Nguyen

The team voice (TV) concept has been largely understudied, with different definitions and understandings among prior research creating confusion for readers and future…

Categorizing you and me: toward a typology of prejudice and justice in the organization

Shih Yung Chou, Katelin Barron, Charles Ramser

Due to the dominant use of the singular view of the self-categorization process in the literature, this article seeks to develop a typology, from a dyadic categorization…

Organizational career development and retention of millennial employees: role of job satisfaction, organizational engagement and employee empowerment

Lipsa Jena, Umakanta Nayak

The study aims to examine the relationship between organizational career development (OCD) and employee retention (ER) with job satisfaction (JS) and organizational engagement as…

Time pressure, emotional exhaustion and project manager abusive supervision in the construction industry: the role of psychological resilience

Muhammad Rafique, Mastura Jaafar, Aliya Zafar, Saira Ahmed

Little research has focused on abusive supervision in the context of project management, despite its prevalence and detrimental influence on the psychological health of…

The lens of theory: seeing better or differently?

Donald Nordberg

This article explicates the notion of using a “theoretical lens” to interpret research data, which has grown increasingly common in recent decades, often without a second thought…