Purpose – The current study aims to investigate the extent to which personality and demographic variables contribute to motivation and job satisfaction as defined by the two‐factor theory. Design/methodology/approach – A total of 202 fulltime workers completed three questionnaires...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship of the Five-Factor Model Personality Disorder (FFM PD) count technique to industrial, work, and organizational (IWO) criteria. In this vein, the present research sought to extend previous studies (e.g. De Fruyt et al. , 2009)...

This study compared people’s endorsement of the money ethic across three countries: Taiwan, the USA and the UK. Exploratory factor analysis results for the whole sample suggested that the six‐item money ethic scale had three independent factors, low cross‐loading, and low inter‐factor...

Previous research has indicated that the evaluation of a candidates’ managerial status is partly a function of whether the raters are potentially subordinates or supervisors of the candidate. Extends this research by examining participants’ perceptions of the most desirable characteristic in...

Several hundred German parents completed a questionnaire to assess their attitudes towards pocket money and economic socialisation. In addition trait competitiveness and occupational stress were measured. Demographic variables were less predictive of competitiveness compared to...

Purpose – To examine how people weigh information when making people decisions, specifically promotion or redundancy, at work. Design/methodology/approach – A sample of 183 working adults completed two questionnaires that required them to rate 16 vignettes describing hypothetical people....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the current status of work psychology mainly by a content analysis of all the issues in Volume 21 of this journal in 2006. Design/methodology/approach – The aims are achieved by conducting a content analysis of one volume to try to discover...

Purpose – This study seeks to investigate human resource practitioners' attitudes and beliefs about work related psychological tests. The purpose was to look at the structure and correlates of those beliefs. Design/methodology/approach – In all, 255 practitioners from human resource and...

A large‐scale survey was conducted to assess “attitudes towards risk and safety at work”, and more general attitudes to work among vets four to five years after German unification. Clear differences were observed between the old (West) and new (East) Federal States of Germany. Stress...

This article has three themes. First it considers the reflections of those scholars who document current changes in the world‐of‐work and the academic and managerial challenges that these provide. Second, various speculations about the future of work are reviewed including those made 20...