Orienting Oneself for Leadership: The Role of Goal Orientation in Leader Developmental Readiness.

The ways in which individuals approach achievement situations influence their use of self-management activities such as goal setting, feedback seeking, and developmental strategies, and ultimately impact success in leader development.

Introduction and empirical assessment of executive functioning as a predictor of job performance.

The primary purposes of this study were (a) to introduce the concept of executive functioning (higher-level cognitive processes which monitor events, actions, and outcomes) to the employee selection literature and (b) to provide an empirical assessment of executive functioning in relation to key selection variables. Two of the three main components of executive functioning (set shifting and inhibition) appear to have considerable potential for selection because of their unique nature (e.g.

Feeling good and doing great: the relationship between psychological capital and well-being.

This study seeks to determine the relationship between psychological capital and an employee's eudaimonic and hedonic well-being. Panel data were collected from 102 extension agents over a 2-week interval. In addition, daily surveys were collected from 67 of the participants.

Leader-member exchange and work-family interactions: the mediating role of self-reported challenge- and hindrance-related stress.

The authors examined the relations among 4 components of the leader-member exchange (LMX) relationship (i.e., contribution, affect, loyalty, and professional respect) and the level of work-family conflict and work-family facilitation that an employee experiences.

Changes in newcomer job satisfaction over time: examining the pattern of honeymoons and hangovers.

In this study, the authors contribute insight into the temporal nature of work attitudes, examining how job satisfaction changes across the 1st year of employment for a sample of organizational newcomers. The authors examined factors related to job change (i.e.