Laurent M. Lapierre

Trait conscientiousness, leader-member exchange, job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behaviour: A test of an integrative model

Competing theoretical models were tested, linking organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB) to trait conscientiousness, job satisfaction and leader-member-exchange (LMX) quality. Meta-analytic structural equation modelling results provide strongest support for a model wherein more conscientious employees display more OCB, which enhances LMX quality, leading to greater job satisfaction. In-turn, employees reciprocate their higher job satisfaction by demonstrating more OCB. Beyond supporting the view that OCB represents employee reciprocation for the satisfying job experiences typically stemming from higher-quality LMX, our findings help to legitimize the notion that OCB may be used, particularly by more conscientious employees, as a means of nurturing higher-quality LMX and to gain access to more satisfying job experiences.

Control at Work, Control at Home, and Planning Behavior Implications for Work–Family Conflict

This study offers a cross-domain perspective on both individual and situational factors relating to work–family conflict. Individuals’ control at work and control at home were examined in relation to work interference with family (WIF) and to family interference with work (FIW). The authors also tested whether employees’ use of planning behavior moderated these relationships. Results suggest that control at work was more strongly related to reductions in WIF among employees who used more rather than less planning behavior. Control at home was related to FIW, but this relationship did not vary with employee’s use of planning behavior. Unexpectedly, control at home was also related to reductions in WIF.

Interprofessional collaboration within integrative healthcare clinics through the lens of the relationship-centered care model

Teamwork is a contemporary way to try to improve the healthcare system, not only for the patients but also for the practitioners involved. A new type of interprofessional working arrangement, integrative healthcare (IHC) clinics, has emerged in the last two decades. The literature on interprofessional collaboration is steadily increasing, but little is known about the collaborative organization of the biomedical and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practitioners that make up the teams in these clinics. The relationship-centered care model was used to guide an exploration of the interprofessional teamwork within a Canadian IHC setting. A sample of 31 IHC clinics and 228 biomedical and CAM practitioners were included. Eighty-nine questionnaires were returned from 25 clinics, representing a 62% practitioner response rate (within clinic responders). This study established that within the analytical model, practitioners behaviors and skills are the main factors associated with job satisfaction and inter-practitioner conflicts in interprofessional IHC practice. The results of the study also suggested the importance of interprofessional exposure for healthcare practitioners who are being expected to serve a clientele that is increasingly interested in being both cured and healed by the integration of biomedical and CAM paradigms and approaches.

Measurement Invariance of the Satisfaction With Life Scale Across 26 Countries

The Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) is a commonly used life satisfaction scale. Cross-cultural researchers use SWLS to compare mean scores of life satisfaction across countries. Despite the wide use of SWLS in cross-cultural studies, measurement invariance of SWLS has rarely been investigated, and previous studies showed inconsistent findings. Therefore, we examined the measurement invariance of SWLS with samples collected from 26 countries. To test measurement invariance, we utilized three measurement invariance techniques: (a) multigroup confirmatory factor analysis (MG-CFA), (b) multilevel confirmatory factor analysis (ML-CFA), and (c) alignment optimization methods. The three methods demonstrated that configural and metric invariances of life satisfaction held across 26 countries, whereas scalar invariance did not. With partial invariance testing, we identified that the intercepts of Items 2, 4, and 5 were noninvariant. Based on two invariant intercepts, factor means of countries were compared. Chile showed the highest factor mean; Spain and Bulgaria showed the lowest. The findings enhance our understanding of life satisfaction across countries, and they provide researchers and practitioners with practical guidance on how to conduct measurement invariance testing across countries.

FURTHER VALIDATION OF CARLSON, KACMAR, AND WILLIAMS' (2000) WORK-FAMILY CONFLICT MEASURE.

We tested whether the 6-factor model previously reported by Carlson, Kacmar, and Williams (2000) as underlying their 18-item work-family conflict measure was generalizable to samples of managers fr...