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Leader humility and its effectiveness in organizations

As businesses continue to strive for higher standards of morality and researchers’ interest in positive organizational scholarship grows, interest in the construct of humble leadership has accumulated.

2024 With M Matthews, and S Matthews
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Business and Management

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“I Pledge Allegiance!” A Theoretical Model of the Patriotic Organization

Patriotism is often described as the “love of country” that individuals display in the acclamation of their national community. Despite the prominence of this sentiment in various societies around the world, organizational research on patriotism is largely absent.

2024 With M Matthews, R Buckley, and M Pattie
Emerald Publishing Limited

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No access? No problem! Taking stock of unobtrusive measures for executives’ deep-level characteristics

The deep-level characteristics (e.g., personality, ability, values) of leaders have previously been found to influence key outcomes for followers, organizations, and more.

2024 With S Matthews, and D Wang
The Leadership Quarterly

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Energizing and depleting? The daily effects of organizationally focused citizenship behaviors

Prior research suggests that organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) can have both positive and negative effects on employees; however, it is unclear about the mediating mechanisms of this relationship and how the effects of challenging and supportive OCB may differ.

2023 With S Matthews, S Henry, Y Zhang, and B Bradley
Journal of Managerial Psychology

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Instrumental variables estimation: Assumptions, pitfalls, and guidelines

Researchers striving to ensure rigor in their scientific findings face a common pitfall: Endogeneity.

2023 With Nicolas Bastardoz, Michael J Matthews, Gwendolin B Sajons, Tyler Ransom, and Samuel H Matthews
The Leadership Quarterly

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Humble leadership: A review and synthesis of leader expressed humility

Recent academic research has proliferated around the construct of humble leadership. Humble leadership involves having an accurate view of oneself, recognizing the contributions of followers, and modeling teachability.

2023 With SH Matthews, MJ Matthews, and SE Henry
Journal of Organizational Behavior

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Citizenship behavior and new venture survival: a cultural tightness-looseness capabilities lens

The authors advance a model theorizing how new ventures elicit citizenship behaviors to cultivate dynamic capabilities that help bolster survival in their nascent years of operations—a characteristically resource-scarce and turbulent context.

2022 With RJ Pidduck, and MC Bolino
International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research

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An island of sanity during COVID-19 pandemic: Does pet attachment support buffer employees' stress due to job insecurity?

Drawing on the transactional theory of stress, the current study investigates whether employee job insecurity triggers employee behavioral strain reactions and psychological strain reactions through stress during the COVID-19 pandemic.

2022 With M Wan, Y Zhang, and SH Matthews
Psychological Reports

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The Machiavellian Organization: A Multilevel Model to Understand Decision Making in Organizations

We introduce a three-phase model of decision-making as examined through a Machiavellian lens.

2022 With MJ Matthews, SH Matthews, and JM Matthews
Group & Organization Management

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Three reasons we should place a higher value on meta-research

Research is often reported on and assessed in singular, rather than aggregate terms. For example, single papers, datasets and findings.

2023 With Michael J Matthews
LSE Impact

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The benefits and pitfalls of using social media when you're a business leader

How to approach the social media environment is a vexing issue for leaders and managers.

2023 With Michael J Matthews, Samuel H Matthews, and David Wang
LSE Business Review

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Essential advice for leaders from a decade of research on humble leadership

A decade ago, qualitative studies established a precise definition of humble leadership, which brought about a surge in research on this topic.

2023 With SH Matthews, MJ Matthews, and SE Henry
LSE Business Review

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Chat-GPT - your replacement or assistant

ChatGPT can do a lot, but we don't need to be anxious about our jobs — instead, this new tech can be an asset.

2023 With Michael J. Matthews, and Samuel H. Matthews
Desert News

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This New Year, Resolve Against Workaholism

Workaholic behavior can damage organizations and teams; managers can take steps to help employees attain better balance.

2022 With MJ Matthews
MIT Sloan Management Review

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Do Employees Have a Point? How to Handle the Quiet Quitters Before They Really Quit

'Quiet quitting' is the latest work trend, but it may not be all bad. Employees who overwork themselves tend to burn out faster

Desert News

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Three Simple Ways to Motivate Your Team Members

Theories on motivation have long predicted that a baseline satisfaction score could be decreased or increased by peripheral factors, but it can be overwhelming for new managers to know where to begin.

2022 With MJ Matthews
Harvard Business Review

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You're Working More. Here's How to Talk to Your Partner About It

Taking on an extra project at work can benefit your career — but it can also sow conflict at home.

2022 With MC Bolino, ML Flores, and RS Bisel
Harvard Business Review

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The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning And Human Values. (Book Review)

We review the book The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning And Human Values by Brian Christian.

2022 With M Matthews, and S Matthews
Personnel Psychology

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May I Please Go the Extra Mile? Citizenship Communication Strategies and Their Effect on Individual Initiative OCB, Work-Family Conflict, and Partner Satisfaction

Organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) contributes to organizational effectiveness, but it can also create a burden for employees and their partner.

2022 With MC Bolino, ML Flores, and RS Bisel
Academy of Management Journal

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Tweet, like, subscribe! Understanding leadership through social media use

The proliferation of digital data has opened the door for a 21st-century social science that explores human relationships on an unprecedented scale.

2022 With MJ Matthews, SH Matthews, and DD Wang
The Leadership Quarterly

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Citizenship ambivalence: Its nature, causes and consequences

Early research on organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) indicated that such actions were beneficial to organizations and employees.

2022 With WH Turnley, DM Bergeron, K Rochford, and J Hinz
Human Resource Management Review

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Working 9-to-5? A review of research on nonstandard work schedules

Increasingly, organizations around the world need employees to work weekends and during hours that fall outside of a traditional 9-to-5, Monday through Friday, schedule.

2021 With MC Bolino, and SH Matthews
Journal of Organizational Behavior

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How follower traits and cultural values influence the effects of leadership

Follower traits and cultural values are important context variables that influence the effectiveness of leader behaviors.

2021 With SH Matthews, and MC Bolino
The Leadership Quarterly

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Rethinking Work Schedules? Consider These 4 Questions

Researchers recently conducted a review of 153 academic articles examining how working a nonstandard schedule affects employee attitudes, behavior, physical and psychological health, as well as their personal and family life.

2020 With MC Bolino, and SH Matthews
Harvard Business Review

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The personality underpinnings of strategic leadership: The CEO, TMT, and Board of Directors

“Strategic leadership” is the umbrella term used to describe the study of an organization's top leaders—what they do, their interactions, and how they influence important organizational outcomes.

2020 With B Bradley, and S Matthews
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Business and Management

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When does gender diversity enhance team performance? The dual need for visionary leadership and team tenure

Teams in organizations are becoming more gender diverse as women continue to participate more in the workforce than ever before.

2020 With SH Matthews, X Zhang, BH Bradley and H Liu
Journal of Applied Social Psychology

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The Secret Life of Pets: The Intersection of Animals and Organizational Life

Although often overlooked, pets and other animals intersect with organizations in interesting, important ways.

2020 With SH Matthews, M Wan, and Y Zhang
Journal of Organizational Behavior

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Leading day-to-day: A review of the daily causes and consequences of leadership behaviors

A recent trend in leadership research is to explore the daily causes and consequences of leadership behaviors.

2020 With SH Matthews, and K Breevaart
The Leadership Quarterly

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Organizational citizenship behavior in the 21st century: How might going the extra mile look different at the start of the new millennium?

For decades organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) has been of interest to scholars and practitioners alike, generating a significant amount of research exploring the concept of what citizenship behavior is, and its antecedents, correlates, and consequences.

2018 With J Harvey, and MC Bolino
Research in personnel and human resources management

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