The weekend constitutes an important recovery period for employees. However, psychologically reattaching to work on Monday can be difficult because employees must transition from their private to their work role. Building on boundary theory and integrating a sleep and circadian perspective, we...

The organizational self-control literature usually applies resource perspectives that explain self-control failure at work by depletion of self-control resources. However, these perspectives neglect the role of self-control motivation. On a daily level, we examine several self-control aspects...

This research sheds light on two crucial yet overlooked aspects of work interruptions: the perspective of employees who initiate interruptions and the reasons behind those interruptions. Building on earlier research on interruptions and theories on employee motivation, we identified six key...

Little is known about the role of perfectionism in employees' daily work. Our study aimed to provide a fine‐grained view on perfectionism in work life by examining daily work‐related perfectionism in terms of perfectionistic strivings and concerns. Drawing on whole trait theory and the...

Research in psychology and organizational behavior has made substantial progress in understanding what affects employee health and well‐being. In this review article, we describe how characteristics of individual workplaces (job resources, job stressors), interpersonal and teamwork factors,...

Taking a temporal perspective, we examined how employees' mood (i.e., wakefulness‐tiredness, calmness‐tenseness, and pleasantness‐unpleasantness) develops during the workday and tested employees' daily recovery from work as a predictor of these mood trajectories. Specifically, we analysed...

Lack of psychological detachment from work during leisure time is related to unfavorable affective states and poor well‐being but little is known about the processes that drive this relationship. We propose that lack of detachment from work translates into next‐day negative and positive...

This research examines the role of leaders for employee recovery. We hypothesize that leader support for recovery (empathy for recovery, respect for boundaries, and role modelling) relates positively to employees' psychological detachment from work during non‐work time that, in turn, predicts...