PsyAsia Organisational Psychology Archives

Extracting Agency and Communion From the Big Five: A Four-Way Competition

by PsyAsia International | Tuesday, April 6, 2021 | Big-5, BPS-RQTU Psychometrics, Personality, PsyAsia Organisational Psychology, Psychometrics

April 6, 2021 Assessment, Ahead of Print. Agency and communion are the two fundamental content dimensions in psychology. The two dimensions figure prominently in many psychological realms (personality, social, self, motivational, cross-cultural, etc.). In contemporary...

Why Do People Agree With Both Regular and Reversed Items? A Logical Response Perspective

by PsyAsia International | Tuesday, March 30, 2021 | Behaviour, Big-5, BPS-RQTU Psychometrics, Personality, PsyAsia Organisational Psychology, Psychometrics

March 30, 2021 Assessment, Ahead of Print. The current research challenges the received view that misresponses to reversed items are the result of participants’ irrational behavior. On the contrary, for participants at a midpoint level of a trait, it is perfectly...

When ethnic discrimination in recruitment is likely to occur and how to reduce it: Applying a contingency perspective to review resume studies

by PsyAsia International | Friday, March 19, 2021 | BPS-RQTU Psychometrics, Discrimination, HRM, PsyAsia Organisational Psychology, Recruitment, Work

March 19, 2021 Publication date: Available online 15 March 2021Source: Human Resource Management ReviewAuthor(s): Mladen Adamovic Go to Source Author:

An Explanation of Personality Change in Organizational Science: Personality as an Outcome of Workplace Stress

by PsyAsia International | Friday, March 19, 2021 | Behaviour, Big-5, BPS-RQTU Psychometrics, Brain, Change, HRM, Personality, PsyAsia Organisational Psychology, Stress, Work

March 19, 2021 Journal of Management, Ahead of Print. Organizational scholarship has recently begun to treat personality as malleable in workplace settings and has called for personality change to be incorporated into current research. The lack of a comprehensive,...

Adoption of high‐performance work systems in small and medium‐sized enterprises

by PsyAsia International | Wednesday, March 10, 2021 | China, HRM, Innovation, Management, Performance, PsyAsia Organisational Psychology, Work

March 10, 2021 This paper investigates the factors influencing the adoption of high‐performance work systems (HPWS) in Chinese small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs). The paper is based on a sample of 207 SMEs, which covers many of the ownership types and business...