The Journal of psychology
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The Journal of psychology · Jul 2008
Comparative StudyHonesty and heroes: a positive psychology view of heroism and academic honesty.
Academic honesty is under-researched in contrast to academic dishonesty. A majority of students self-report cheating in college. A low probability of punishment is reflected by few tried cases of academic misconduct. ⋯ Experiment 1 established courage, empathy, and honesty as predictors of academic honesty. Experiment 2 replicated these findings and found heroism to be predictive of students' future intent to cheat. These experiments have constructed an effective working model of heroism in the context of the academic environment.
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The Journal of psychology · Jan 2008
Organizational citizenship behavior and social loafing: the role of personality, motives, and contextual factors.
The present study integrates the literature on social loafing and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). The authors examined the roles of personality, motives, and contextual factors in influencing the work behaviors of OCB and social loafing. ⋯ Felt responsibility was negatively related to social loafing. The authors found no significant relations between social loafing and OCB motives.
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The Journal of psychology · Nov 2007
Optimism, stress, life satisfaction, and job burnout in restaurant managers.
Researchers have suggested that dispositional optimism is related to both stress and stress outcomes. However, the nature of this relationship has not fully been explained. ⋯ The diminished personal accomplishment dimension of job burnout mediated the relationship between optimism and life satisfaction. Also, stress significantly impacted perceptions of diminished personal accomplishment and life satisfaction.
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The Journal of psychology · Jul 2007
Employee satisfaction and theft: testing climate perceptions as a mediator.
Employee theft of both property and time is an expensive and pervasive problem for American organizations. One antecedent of theft behaviors is employee dissatisfaction, but not all dissatisfied employees engage in withdrawal or theft behaviors. ⋯ They found that dissatisfaction influenced employee theft behaviors through the intermediary influence of employees' individual perceptions of the organization's climate for theft. The authors encourage organizations to pay attention to such climate elements and take action to alter employee perceptions if they reflect permissive attitudes toward theft.
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The Journal of psychology · Mar 2007
The role of fairness perceptions and accountability attributions in predicting reactions to organizational events.
Researchers have found that fairness perceptions relate to many different outcomes (e.g., J. A. Colquitt, D. ⋯ Employees reported perceptions of fairness and attributions of blame to both their supervisor and the organization and rated their commitment to both targets. Supervisors simultaneously rated each employee's citizenship behavior toward each target. For supervisor reactions and organizational citizenship behavior directed at the organization, blame and fairness perceptions interacted; unique positive reactions were elicited only when the supervisor was perceived as blameless and fair.