Deciding to voice

Voice behavior, which is defined as discretionary communication of ideas, suggestions, concerns, or opinions about work-related issues with the intent to improve organizational or unit functioning (Morrison, 2011), is considered potentially risky (Liu et al, 2010).

To envisage

Great leaders across centuries and across institutions - political, social and economic - have astutely used the "power of imagery" in stirring a group of people. The power of envisaging an inspiring future and energizing the constituents towards realizing it seems indisputable. In an organizational context too, the implications of a "shared vision" has received considerable attention both on theoretical and practical fronts.

Social loafing

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Social loafing is the reduction in motivation and effort when individuals work collectively compared with when they work individually or coactively. Latane, Williams, and Harkins (1979) even suggested that social loafing is a type of social disease, having "negative consequences for individuals, social institutions, and societies".

Karau, S. J., & Williams, K. D. (1993). Social loafing: A meta-analytic review and theoretical integration. Journal of personality and social psychology, 65(4), 681.

Social entrepreneurship: A distinctive domain?

Though 'social entrepreneurship' as a phenomenon that integrates economic and social value creation has had a long presence, it does not seem to have attracted wide scholarly attention. A review of the social science literature found despite spanning a period of nearly 20 years, just 152 journal articles on social entrepreneurship and 10 key areas of future research (Short, Moss and Lumpkin, 2009).

Leadership effectiveness

A cursory glance at the academic literature shows that the phenomenon of leadership has intrigued scholars across domains, particularly those from social psychological and organization behavioral disciplines. In fact, a Google Scholar search for the word "leadership" in the title of the article yields more than 150,000 results.

Institutions and Entrepreneurship

Douglass C North's essay on "Institutions", published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives (Vol 5, Winter 1991), was a compulsory reading during my MBA days. But as many B-school students, I too graduated barely managing to flip through the many seminal essays such as this.

Maximizing organization performance

I have always been fascinated by the subject of how organizations, both for-profit and non-profit, manage their human resources to achieve greater organizational performance. Having worked in organizations of varied nature and settings, albeit for a shorter time, and having gotten time to reflect on these experiences, I believe that this area of maximizing organization performance offers tremendous scope for meaningful investigations.

Trust: Intra- and Inter- organizational

A few days back an interesting academic lecture titled "Sparks, Workers and Slugs: On the Relationship between Work Orientation and Trust among Firefighters" was delivered by Professor Michael G. Pratt. Based on a decade of research, his talk was essentially about exploring the relationship between work orientation and trust among firefighters. It was particularly intriguing to know how perceptions of work orientations get formed based on small social cues outside the work domain, and how this perception determines the degree of trust between workers.

Criterion domain of OCB

Reference paper:

Hoffman, B. J., Blair, C. A., Meriac, J. P., & Woehr, D. J. (2007). Expanding the Criterion Domain? A Quantitative Review of the OCB Literature. Journal of Applied Psychology, 92(2), 555–566.

CWB and OCB

Reference paper:

Dalal, R. S. (2005). A Meta-Analysis of the Relationship Between Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Counterproductive Work Behavior. Journal of Applied Psychology, 90(6), 1241–1255. doi:10.1037/0021-9010.90.6.1241

Personality traits and OCB

Reference paper:

Chiaburu, D. S., Oh, I.-S., Berry, C. M., Li, N., & Gardner, R. G. (2011). The Five-Factor Model of Personality Traits and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors: A Meta-Analysis. Journal of Applied Psychology, 96(6), 1140–1166. doi:10.1037/a0024004

Role stressors and OCB

Reference paper:

Eatough, E. M., Chu-Hsiang Chang, Miloslavic, S. A., & Johnson, R. E. (2011). Relationships of Role Stressors With Organizational Citizenship Behavior: A Meta-Analysis. Journal of Applied Psychology, 96(3), 619–632. doi:10.1037/a0021887

OCB: Extension of nomological network

Reference paper:

Spitzmuller, M., Van Dyne, L., & Ilies, R. (2008). Organizational citizenship behavior: A review and extension of its nomological network. The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Behavior. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 106–123.

OCB and outcomes: Meta-analysis

Reference paper:

Podsakoff, N. P., Whiting, S. W., Podsakoff, P. M., & Blume, B. D. (2009). Individual- and organizational-level consequences of organizational citizenship behaviors: A meta-analysis. Journal of Applied Psychology, 94(1), 122–141. doi:10.1037/a0013079

Circumplex model and OCB

Reference paper:

Moon, H., Van Dyne, L., Wrobel, K., & Turnipseed, D. L. (2005). The circumplex model and the future of organizational citizenship behavior research. Handbook of organizational citizenship behavior, 3–24.

OCB: Nature and dimensionality

Reference paper:

LePine, J. A., Erez, A., & Johnson, D. E. (2002). The nature and dimensionality of organizational citizenship behavior: A critical review and meta-analysis. Journal of Applied Psychology, 87(1), 52.

Taking charge at work

Reference paper:

Morrison, E. W., & Phelps, C. C. (1999). Taking charge at work: Extrarole efforts to initiate workplace change. Academy of management Journal, 403–419.

Culture, trust and negotiation

Reference paper:

Brian C. Gunia, Jeanne M. Brett, Amit K. Nandkeolyar, & Dishan Karndar. (2011). Paying a Price: Culture, Trust, and Negotiation Consequences. Journal of Applied Psychology, 96(4), 774–789.

OCB: Construct clean-up

Reference paper:

Organ, D. W. (1997). Organizational Citizenship Behavior: It’s Construct Clean-Up Time. Human Performance, 10(2), 85–97. doi:10.1207/s15327043hup1002_2

Attitudinal and dispositional predictors of OCB

Reference paper:

Organ, D. W., & Ryan, K. (1995). A Meta-Analttic Review Of Attitudinal And Dispositional Predictors Of Organizational Citizenship Behavior. Personnel psychology, 48(4), 775–802.