James A. Meurs
University of Calgary
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Journal of Human Resources in Hospitality & Tourism | 2015
Priyanko Guchait; Seonghee Cho; James A. Meurs
This study investigates the effects of perceived organizational support on transactional and relational contracts and how these two types of psychological contracts influence employee intent to leave. Additionally, perceived supervisor support was examined as a predictor of perceived organizational support. Given the high employee turnover rates in the hospitality industry, lack of employee turnover studies in hospitality context, and more importantly, lack of employee turnover studies in countries other than the Western organizational contexts, the current study examines the above relationships with restaurant employees in India. Results showed that perceived supervisor support increased employee perceptions of organizational support, perceived organizational support increased relational psychological contracts but not transactional contracts, and only relational contracts had a significant effect on employees’ intent to leave. Implications of these results and issues for future research are discussed.
Work & Stress | 2013
James A. Meurs; Suzy Fox; Stacey R. Kessler; Paul E. Spector
Although studies have found that personality variables moderate the relationship between stressors and counterproductive work behaviour, few have examined the role of narcissism and those that did have found inconsistent results. Using a sample of 515 United States employees, we found that narcissism moderated the relationships between interpersonal conflict at work and counterproductive work behaviours directed at others, and between organizational constraints and counterproductive work behaviours directed at the organization, making both relationships stronger for those high on narcissism. We also found that narcissism moderated the relationship between organizational constraints and counterproductive work behaviours directed at others. Further, we demonstrated that the grandiose exhibitionism facet of narcissism moderated these same stressor–counterproductive work behaviours relationships, whereas the facets of leadership/authority and entitlement/exploitiveness did not. Our study indicates that organizational scholars should examine narcissism as an important antecedent of work behaviour, and that research needs to consider potential differential prediction by each of its facets.
European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology | 2017
Erik Dietl; James A. Meurs; Gerhard Blickle
ABSTRACT Researchers have yet to precisely test the Socioanalytic proposition that social skill moderates the personality identity–personality reputation relationship. Further, although research has found personality to have both explicit and implicit aspects, scholars have not examined these differences with respect to the Socioanalytic perspective on personality. The present study investigates how explicit and implicit achievement orientation identities relate to one’s reputation for that trait in the workplace and to career success, as measured by occupational status. We propose that explicit and implicit achievement orientation, political skill and their interplay positively relate to reputation of achievement orientation at work, which, in turn, is positively related to occupational status. We found that (1) both explicit and implicit achievement orientation were positively associated with its reputation, as rated by co-workers; (2) reputation mediated both relations between implicit/explicit achievement orientation and occupational status and (3) heightened political skill strengthened the relationship between explicit achievement orientation and its reputation, as well as its indirect effect on occupational status via reputation (first stage moderated mediation). Our research provides a potential explanation for why observer ratings of personality are more strongly associated with outcomes than self-ratings: Observers perceive both implicit and explicit personality behaviours.
International Journal of Selection and Assessment | 2014
Gerhard Blickle; James A. Meurs; Andreas Wihler; Christian Ewen; Anna Kathrin Peiseler
Given the variability in personalitys relationship with leadership and the use of personality measures in leader selection and assessment, we examine the joint influence of leader trait inquisitiveness and leader political skill on subordinate perceptions of leader charisma and effectiveness. Findings indicate a positive main effect of political skill on charisma, the positive relationship between inquisitiveness and charisma is moderated by heightened political skill, and charisma mediates the relationship between the inquisitiveness by political skill interaction and perceived effectiveness. The moderated mediation results of our study suggest that organizations should not only select creative and imaginative leaders, but also select those who are politically skilled or provide political skill training.
Journal of Personality Assessment | 2016
Mareike Kholin; James A. Meurs; Gerhard Blickle; Andreas Wihler; Christian Ewen; Tassilo D. Momm
abstract Scholars have raised concerns that openness to experience has ambiguous relationships with performance. In this study, we examine both openness and one of its more narrow dimensions, learning approach. In addition, the research context was made narrow (i.e., higher education academic performance in science), and social skill was interactively combined with peer- and self-rated personality in the prediction of academic performance (i.e., grades). We found that those high on learning approach, but not openness, 1 year later performed better academically than those lower on learning approach. Furthermore, for those high and average on social skill, increased peer-rated learning approach was associated with higher performance. Finally, the combination of self- and other-ratings of learning approach was a better predictor of academic performance than the combination of self- and other-ratings of openness. The relationship of openness with academic performance benefits from narrowing predictors and criteria, framing the study within a relevant context, accounting for social skill, and combining self- and other trait ratings.
Personality and Individual Differences | 2017
Andreas Wihler; James A. Meurs; Tassilo D. Momm; Julia John; Gerhard Blickle
Journal of Vocational Behavior | 2015
Gerhard Blickle; James A. Meurs; Andreas Wihler; Christian Ewen; Roxanne Merkl; Tamara Missfeld
Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences-revue Canadienne Des Sciences De L Administration | 2015
Vickie Coleman Gallagher; James A. Meurs
Personality and Individual Differences | 2017
Andreas Wihler; James A. Meurs; Daniela Wiesmann; Leander Troll; Gerhard Blickle
Journal of Vocational Behavior | 2017
Gerhard Blickle; James A. Meurs; Andreas Wihler; Christian Ewen; Roxanne Merkl; Tamara Missfeld