INTRODUCTION While increasingly popular among mid- to large-size employers, using financial incentives to induce health behavior change among employees has been controversial, in part due to poor quality and generalizability of studies to date. Thus, fundamental questions have been left unanswered: To generate positive economic returns on investment, what level of incentive should be offered fo...

Increasing Coping Resources at Work: A Field Experiment to Increase Social Support, Improve Work Team Functioning, and Enhance Employee Mental Health Author(s): Catherine A. Heaney, Richard H. Price, Jane Rafferty Source: Journal of Organizational Behavior, Vol. 16, No. 4, (Jul., 1995), pp. 335-352 Published by: John Wiley & Sons Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2488562 Accessed: 16/...

Job dissatisfaction is the psychological condition of an employee brought about by the unraveled conditions at work. Job dissatisfaction happens due to several reasons some of them are work load, lack of control, unfairness, value conflict and insufficient reward. It is said that, “job dissatisfaction is the loss of meaning in one's world”. Due to prolonged stress and frustration the employees ...

Disclosures. K. Oved, MeMed Diagnostics: Board Member, Employee and Shareholder, Salary E. Eden, MeMed Diagnostics: Board Member, Employee and Shareholder, Salary T. Gottlieb, MeMed Diagnostics: Employee, Salary R. Navon, MeMed Diagnostics: Employee, Salary A. Cohen, MeMed Diagnostics: Employee, Salary O. Boico, MeMed Diagnostics: Employee, Salary M. Paz, MeMed Diagnostics: Employee, Salary L. ...

Disclosures. K. Oved, MeMed Diagnostics: Board Member, Employee and Shareholder, Salary E. Eden, MeMed Diagnostics: Board Member, Employee and Shareholder, Salary T. Gottlieb, MeMed Diagnostics: Employee, Salary R. Navon, MeMed Diagnostics: Employee, Salary A. Cohen, MeMed Diagnostics: Employee, Salary O. Boico, MeMed Diagnostics: Employee, Salary M. Paz, MeMed Diagnostics: Employee, Salary L. ...

BACKGROUND Organizational change often leads to negative employee outcomes such as increased absence. Because change is also often inevitable, it is important to know how these negative outcomes could be reduced. This study investigates how the line manager's behavior relates to sickness absence in a Norwegian health trust during major restructuring. METHODS Leader behavior was measured by qu...

Senior management and the union executive committee of a forest products company set an organizational goal to reduce theft from approximately a million dollars a year to zero. Salaried and hourly employees, selected a t random, were interviewed regarding their outcome expectancies for honest and dishonest behavior. The responses were categorized within a 2 X 2 empathy box (honest/dishonest beh...

Using a representative sample of 3,381 American workers, this study investigates relationships among work/life policies, informal support, and employee Patricia V. Roehling is Associate Professor at Hope College and a faculty affiliate of the Cornell Employment and Family Careers Institute. Her address is Psychology Department, Hope College, Holland, MI 49423; e-mail: roehling hope.edu. She has...

This editorial introduces a special issue of the Journal of Organizational Behavior on positive organizational behavior (POB). POB emphasizes the need for more focused theory building, research, and effective application of positive traits, states, and behaviors of employees in organizations. We argue that in order to make a substantive contribution to organizational science, POB will need to s...