2016 - Reprints: Organizational Behavior and Human Resources
Leading future orientations for current effectiveness: The role of engagement and supervisor coaching in linking future work self salience to job performance, Journal of Vocational Behavior, 92, 145-156, 2016
W. Lin, L. Wang, P.A. Bamberger, Q. Zhang, H. Wang, W. Guo, J. Shi and T. Zhang
(Reprint No. 317)
Research no. : 09160100
Recent research suggests that the salience of a future work self has a considerable impact on future-oriented activities such as skill development, career planning, career networking, and job searching. However, little is known as to whether, how, and under what conditions a more salient future work self may influence concomitant work outcomes such as job performance. Drawing on self-regulation theory, we argue that future work self salience (FWSS) affects job performance via its influence on engagement, with this influence amplified as a function of supervisor coaching. Using multi-source and lagged data collected from employees (N = 441), their direct supervisors (N = 98), and archival records in an insurance company, we found that engagement mediated the relationships between FWSS and both supervisorrated and archival sales performance. Furthermore, the relationships FWSS has with employee engagement and sales performance, as well as the indirect effects of FWSS on two performance indicators, were stronger for employees exposed to higher levels of supervisor coaching.
Enabling team learning when members are prone to contentious communication: The role of team leader coaching, Human Relations, 69(8) 1709-1727, 2016
J. Schaubroeck, A. Carmeli, S. Bhatia and E. Paz
(Reprint No. 320)
04060100
Members of teams are often prone to interpersonal communication patterns that can undermine the team’s capacity to engage in self-learning processes that are critical to team adaptation and performance improvement. We argue that team leader coaching behaviors are critical to ensuring that team discussions that may foster learning new teamwork skills and strategies are unfettered by the tendency of two or more members to exhibit contentious interpersonal communications. We accordingly test a model in which team contentious communication moderates the mediated relationship of team leader coaching behaviors on team innovation effectiveness and team task performance. In a study of 82 work teams, team leader coaching behaviors exhibited indirect, positive relationships with both team innovation effectiveness and team task performance through team learning, but only among teams with an average or higher level of contentious interpersonal communication. We discuss theoretical and practical implications for the leadership of teams.
Culture shapes whether the pursuit of happiness predicts higher or lower well-being, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144(6), 1053-1062, 2015
B.Q. Ford, J.O. Dmitrieva, D. Heller, Y. Chentsova-Dutton, I. Grossmann, M. Tamir, Y. Uchida, B. Koopmann-Holm, V.A. Floerke, M. Uhrig, T. Bokhan and I.B. Mauss
(Reprint No. 321)
Research no.: 01050100
Pursuing happiness can paradoxically impair well-being. Here, the authors propose the potential downsides to pursuing happiness may be specific to individualistic cultures. In collectivistic (vs. individualistic) cultures, pursuing happiness may be more successful because happiness is viewed—and thus pursued—in relatively socially engaged ways. In 4 geographical regions that vary in level of collectivism (United States, Germany, Russia, East Asia), we assessed participants’ well-being, motivation to pursue happiness, and to what extent they pursued happiness in socially engaged ways. Motivation to pursue happiness predicted lower well-being in the United States, did not predict well-being in Germany, and predicted higher well-being in Russia and in East Asia. These cultural differences in the link between motivation to pursue happiness and well-being were explained by cultural differences in the socially engaged pursuit of happiness. These findings suggest that culture shapes whether the pursuit of happiness is linked with better or worse well-being, perhaps via how people pursue happiness.
