scholarly journals Effect of Organizational Change on Employee Job Involvement: Mediating Role of Communication, Emotions and Psychological Contract

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 178-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arfan Khalid
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Change ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Psychological Contract ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Job Involvement ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of the current paper is to provide a conceptual framework for studying the impact of organizational change on employee job involvement while communication, emotions and psychological contract plays mediating role in this relationship. The current study conceptualize that organizational change followed by effective communication generate the positive emotions which ultimately increase the employee job involvement where as organizational change with ineffective communication causes negative emotions which results in low employee job involvement. The study also founds that organizational change may break the psychological contract between employee and employer which reduces the employee job involvement.

scholarly journals The Impact of Intolerance of Uncertainty on Negative Emotions in COVID-19: Mediation by Pandemic-Focused Time and Moderation by Perceived Efficacy

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (8) ◽  
pp. 4189
Author(s):  
Weine Dai ◽  
Guangteng Meng ◽  
Ya Zheng ◽  
Qi Li ◽  
Bibing Dai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Direct Effect ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Intolerance Of Uncertainty ◽  
Perceived Efficacy ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Effective Interventions ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The Impact

The COVID-19 global pandemic has resulted in a large number of people suffering from emotional problems. However, the mechanisms by which intolerance of uncertainty (IU) affects negative emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic remain unclear. This study aimed to explore the mediating role of pandemic-focused time and the moderating role of perceived efficacy in the association between IU and negative emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic based on the uncertainty-time-efficacy-emotion model (UTEE). 1131 participants were recruited to complete measures of COVID-19 IU, pandemic-focused time, perceived efficacy, negative emotions and demographic variables during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results showed that COVID-19 IU was significantly and positively associated with negative emotions, and this link could be mediated by pandemic-focused time. Moreover, the direct effect of COVID-19 IU on negative emotions was moderated by perceived efficacy. Specifically, the direct effect of COVID-19 IU on negative emotions was much stronger for individuals with lower levels of perceived efficacy. The current study further extended the previous integrative uncertainty tolerance model. Furthermore, the study suggested that policy makers and mental health professionals should reduce the general public’s negative emotions during the pandemic through effective interventions such as adjusting COVID-19 IU, shortening pandemic-focused time and enhancing perceived efficacy.

The impact of organizational practices on formation and development of psychological contract: expatriates' perception-based view

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hafsa Bashir ◽  
Bashir Ahmad ◽  
Muhammad Waseem Bari ◽  
Qurat Ul Ain Khan
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Justice ◽  
Organizational Support ◽  
Psychological Contract ◽  
Perceived Organizational Support ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Contract Formation ◽  
The Impact

PurposeBased on signaling and motivation theories, this study investigates the impact of organizational practices on the formation and development of expatriates' psychological contracts in three stages. Stage 1: the impact of the selection process on psychological contract formation with the mediating role of perceived organizational justice. Stage 2: the impact of pre-departure training on psychological contract formation with the mediating role of individual absorptive capacity. Stage 3: the impact of perceived organizational support on psychological contract development with the mediating role of expatriates' adjustment.Design/methodology/approachBy using a purposive sampling technique, the respondents were approached via e-mails and personal visits in three waves, each wave had 45 days gap. After three waves, a total of 402 complete questionnaires were received back. To test the hypotheses, the partial least squares-based structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) approach was used.FindingsStage 1: effective selection process and perceived organizational justice positively support the psychological contract formation. Stage 2: the pre-departure training and individual absorptive capacity have a positive influence on the psychological contract formation of expatriates. Stage 3: the perceived organizational support and psychological contract development have a positive direct association. However, expatriates' adjustment does not mediate the association between perceived organizational support and the psychological contract development of expatriates.Practical implicationsThe implications of this study are supportive to the organizations that deal with expatriates. The organizations should adopt practices (i.e. effective selection process, pre-departure training and perceived organizational support) for effective formation of psychological contract formation and development. In addition, perceived organizational justice, individual absorptive capacity and expatriates' adjustment can help out in the formation and development of the psychological contract of expatriates.Originality/valueThis study highlights the role of organizational best practices in the formation and development of the psychological contract of expatriates.

scholarly journals The Role of Passion in Psychological and Cardiovascular Responses: Extending the Field of Passion and Positive Psychology in New Directions

2022 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J. Vallerand ◽  
Virginie Paquette ◽  
Christine Richard
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Physiological Responses ◽  
Cognitive Appraisals ◽  
Cardiovascular Responses ◽  
Physiological Reactivity ◽  
Stressful Situation ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Threat Appraisals

The present study fills a void in research on passion by examining for the first time the role of passion in physiological responses. The aim of the study was to investigate the role of passion, and the mediating role of cognitive appraisals, in the psychological and physiological responses to a stressful situation related to one’s passion. Students (43 women, 12 men, M age = 27.21 years), who were passionate for their studies, completed the Passion Scale for their studies and the Cognitive Appraisal Scale (assessing perceptions of challenge/threat). Then, they engaged in an education task under stressful conditions, and a subsequent unrelated leisure task under no-stress. Physiological reactivity was measured throughout the entire session and their perceptions of situational vitality and positive and negative emotions were assessed directly after the education task. Results showed that harmonious passion (HP) positively predicted challenge appraisals that, in turn, were positively related to positive emotions, vitality, and positive cardiovascular adaptation while engaging in the stressful education task, but less so with the leisure task (unrelated to one’s passion for academia). On the other hand, obsessive passion (OP) positively predicted threat appraisals. In turn, threat appraisals were positively related to negative emotions, negatively associated with vitality, and not related to cardiovascular reactivity. The present findings suggest that HP creates the onset of an adaptive psychological and physiological response whereas the response is less adaptive with OP.

Partisan Information Sources and Affective Polarization: Panel Analysis of the Mediating Role of Anger and Fear

2018 ◽  
Vol 96 (3) ◽  
pp. 767-783 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanqin Lu ◽  
Jae Kook Lee
Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Selective Exposure ◽  
Panel Analysis ◽  
Presidential Candidates ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Election Studies ◽  
The Impact

Drawing on the 2012 American National Election Studies (ANES) panel data, this study explores the influence of the consumption of partisan information sources on affective polarization and investigates the mechanism underlying this relationship. The results show that exposure to pro-party television sources strengthens affective polarization among partisans. The polarizing effects of pro-party sources are mediated by the discrete negative emotions (i.e., anger and fear) toward presidential candidates. The study discusses the impact of selective exposure on deliberative and participatory democracies.

But they promised! How psychological contracts influence the impact of felt violations on job-related anxiety and performance

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dirk De Clercq ◽  
Muhammad Umer Azeem ◽  
Inam Ul Haq
Keyword(s):  
Job Performance ◽  
Psychological Contract ◽  
Psychological Contracts ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Psychological Contract Violations ◽  
The Impact

PurposeThis study unpacks the relationship between violations of organizational promises, as perceived by employees and their job performance, considering the mediating effects of job-related anxiety and moderating effects of psychological contract type.Design/methodology/approachMulti-source, multi-wave data were collected from employees and their supervisors in Pakistan.FindingsFeelings of organizational betrayal may reduce job performance due to the higher anxiety that employees experience in their daily work. This mediating role of enhanced job-related anxiety in turn is stronger to the extent that employees believe that their psychological contract contains relational obligations but weaker when it contains transactional obligations.Practical implicationsThe study gives organizational decision makers pertinent insights into how they can mitigate the risk that employees who are angry about broken organizational promises stay away from performance-enhancing work activities, namely, by managing the expectations that come along with psychological contracts. In so doing, they can avoid imposing dual harms on employees, from both a sense that they have been betrayed and the risk of lower performance ratings.Originality/valueThis study offers expanded insights into the process that underpins the translation of psychological contract violations into diminished job performance, by pinpointing the simultaneous roles of experienced job-related anxiety and beliefs about employer obligations.

The Effects of Genre and Reading Difficulty on Narrative Transportation: The Mediating Role of Affect

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 422-429
Author(s):  
Foivos Isakoglou ◽  
Kristi S. Multhaup ◽  
Margaret P. Munger ◽  
Brian A. Eiler
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Reading Difficulty ◽  
Literary Fiction ◽  
Difficulty Level ◽  
Narrative Transportation ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Stories offer a refuge from people’s mundane troubles and commitments by immersing them in intricate fictional worlds. Narrative transportation, i.e., the feeling of being “lost” in the world of a story, has been found to be an important measure of involvement with narratives (Green & Brock, 2000). Numerous studies have examined the impact of literary fiction on readers’ theory of mind, but the relationship between genre and narrative transportation remains relatively unexplored. Black and Barnes (2015a) proposed that exposure to literary fiction produces higher narrative transportation than exposure to nonfiction texts. The present investigation sought to replicate this finding while (a) measuring baseline trait empathy, (b) addressing a confound of genre and reading difficulty noted in prior work, and (c) assessing the mediating role of affect on the relationship between genre and narrative transportation. Empathy was positively correlated with narrative transportation, r = .39, p < .001. Narrative transportation was higher for participants who read challenging fiction and nonfiction than for participants who read easy fiction, F(2, 891) = 5.79, p = .003, ηp2= .013. Positive affect, but not negative affect, mediated the effect of challenging versus easy text conditions on narrative transportation, b = –.16, se = .04 (95% CI [–.25, –.08]). These findings suggest that narrative transportation may not be dependent on story genre, but rather on a given text’s difficulty level and the positive emotions experienced while reading.

Control and the emotional rollercoaster of organizational change

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 399-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy Kark Smollan
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Change ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Resistance To Change ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Content Type

Purpose – The aim of the study is to identify the emotions that arise over issues of control over organizational change, to explore why they occur and what their consequences are for the organizational member. Design/methodology/approach – A total of 24 people from different industries, organizations, hierarchical levels and functional departments were interviewed on their experiences of change and the emotional reactions they produced. Findings – Negative emotions were evoked when members sensed a lack of control, a loss of control or the possibilities of mismanaging control in an organizational change. Positive emotions were reported for those able to exert control over processes and outcomes. The metaphor of the rollercoaster effect of positive and negative emotions was specifically used by a number of participants, while several others referred to an associated metaphor, the grief cycle. Research limitations/implications – Participants were not asked what control over change they preferred, and dispositional and cultural issues were not specifically explored. The limitations of the rollercoaster metaphor are addressed. Research implications include examining the role of traits like locus of control and self-efficacy from a qualitative perspective and identifying the part ethnic or national culture plays in perceptions of control over change. Practical implications – Management needs to allow participation in decision making wherever possible to fortify perceptions of control over change and to develop in members feelings of self-efficacy and well-being. Originality/value – The study demonstrates how control over organizational change produces emotional responses that influence commitment and resistance to change.

scholarly journals BREACH OF PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTRACT AND QUALITY OF LIFE; PSYCHOSOMATIC STRAIN AS MEDIATOR AND POWER DISTANCE AS MODERATOR

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-33
Author(s):  
Muhammad Asad
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Psychological Contract ◽  
Power Distance ◽  
Research Direction ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Future Research Direction ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Impact

This study empirically examined the impact of breach of psychological contract on employees’ quality of life via the mediating mechanism of psychosomatic strain, while facilitating effect of power distance was also examined. Data were collected from a sample of 183 employees using a questionnaire. Results confirm that the breach of psychological contract declines employees’ quality of life, while mediating role of psychosomatic strain in this particular relationship was also established. Contrary to expectations, power distance does not act as a moderating variable. Implications, limitation and future research direction are discussed.

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