Call for Papers: Intraindividual Processes Linking Work and Employee Well-Being
Journal of Organizational Behavior Special Issue Call for Papers: Intraindividual Processes Linking Work and Employee Well-Being. (FYI to the Capella community: the JOB is available in our library.)
Submission deadline: August 16, 2009
Guest editors: Remus Ilies, Michigan State University, Sabine Sonnentag, University of Konstanz
The study intraindividual fluctuations in well-being, allows researchers to capture the effects of discrete situational influences on fluctuations in well-being and of fluctuations in well-being on outcomes relevant for organizations.
The objective of this special issue is to publish research that specifically targets understanding intraindividual processes that link work and employee well-being over time. Both theoretical and empirical contributions are encouraged. Employee well-being should be understood broadly and may be conceptualized as affective states, job or life satisfaction, work-family balance, happiness, or as various health indicators (e.g., subjective reports, blood pressure).
The list below includes potential topics for contributions, but other topics may also be suitable.
1. Experience sampling studies examining the influence of time-varying work features (e.g., workload, social interactions, interpersonal conflict, perceived injustice, and discrete events) on employee well-being over time.
2. Studies examining the moderating impact of dispositional characteristics on the nature and magnitude of intraindividual relationships between work features or events and employee well-being.
3. Cross-level studies that investigate processes that minimize the detrimental effects of negative work events or excessive demands on employee well-being (e.g., do perceived organizational support or transformational leadership minimize the negative effects of work overload on well-being?), or maximize the beneficial effects of positive work events or experiences on well-being (e.g., savoring, interpersonal capitalization).
4. Day-level and week-level studies examining processes at the work-home interface (e.g., spillover processes, work-family conflict and work-family enhancement, recovery from job stress).
5. Growth-curve and time-series studies focusing on trajectories of change in well-being within days, weeks, or months.
6. Investigations of the directional links between well-being and job performance (e.g., conceptualizing well-being as a predictor and outcome of fluctuations in task and contextual performance).
Contributors should note: This call is open and competitive, and the submitted papers will be blind reviewed. The editors will select a number of papers to be included in the special issue, but other papers submitted in this process may be published in other issues of the journal.
The editors of the special issue are very happy to discuss initial ideas for papers, and can be contacted directly: Sabine Sonnentag, University of Konstanz sabine.sonnentag@uni-konstanz.de or Remus Ilies, Michigan State University ilies@msu.edu.
Papers to be considered for this special issue should be submitted online via http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/job (selecting ‘Special Issue Paper’ as the Manuscript Type). Please direct questions about the submission process, or any administrative matter, to Managing Editor, Kaylene Ascough, k.ascough@uq.edu.au
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