The need to belong: how to reduce workplace ostracism

The Need to Belong

You don’t actually want to get closer to the star: How LMX leads to workplace ostracism

High-quality leader-member exchange (LMX) is commonly seen as beneficial to employees. However, this is not always the case in the eyes of other members of the same team. Based on social comparison theory, we propose that members who have high-quality LMX relationships with team leaders might face workplace ostracism through being envied by other members of the same team. Further, we hypothesiz...

Forging Ahead: How to Thrive at the Modern Workplace

Thriving at work is an emerging phenomenon in recent times, which is defined as a psychological state in which individuals experience both the senses of vitality and learning. Researchers and practitioners are looking for ways to enhance the employee’s thriving at work, because it is associated with behavioral outcomes. The objective of this study is to empirically investigate the impact of con...

How Much Time Does It Need to Write an Article?

سخن سردبیر Editorial مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان دوره نوزدهم، خرداد 1399، 222-221       چقدر زمان برای نوشتن یک مقاله مورد نیاز است؟ How Much Time Does It Need to Write an Article?   محسن رضائیان[1]   M. Rezaeian   اگر برای شما این سؤال پیش آمده است که: " چقدر زمان برای نوشتن یک مقاله مورد نیاز است؟" خواندن فصل پنجم کتاب "چگونه مقالات بهتر پزشکی بنویسیم" (How to write better m...

Aberrant asociality: how individual differences in social anhedonia illuminate the need to belong.

The need to belong, a fundamental concept in psychology, organizes a wide range of findings in the study of interpersonal relationships. We suggest that human belongingness needs can be illuminated by examining when they go awry. We review research on social anhedonia, a trait that involves a marked disinterest in interpersonal contact. Social anhedonia has a long history in clinical psychology...