Journal of Organizational Behavior
Special Issue Call for Papers: Intraindividual Processes Linking Work
and Employee Well-Being
Submission deadline: August 16, 2009
Guest editors Remus Ilies, Michigan State University
Sabine Sonnentag, University of Konstanz
Background and rationale for special issue:
Traditionally, employee well-being has been studied by examining
individual differences in job satisfaction or some more inclusive
constructs such as life satisfaction or mental health (Heller, Watson, &
Ilies, 2004; Ilies, Schwind, & Heller, 2007; Sonnentag & Bayer, 2005).
Recently, a number of scholars have contended that focusing on
individual differences in well-being is limiting in that such research
designs cannot examine the influence of episodic situational influences
on well-being constructs (e.g., Ilies et al., 2007; Reis, Sheldon,
Gable, Roscoe, Ryan, 2000). The alternative is to study intraindividual
fluctuations in well-being, which 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 aims at 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 in the normal way. Submitted
papers must be based on original material not under consideration by any
other journal or outlet. For empirical papers based on data sets from
which multiple papers have been generated, the editors must be provided
with copies of all other papers based on the same data. 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 deadline for submissions is August 16, 2009. The special issue is
intended for publication at the end of 2010/ beginning 2011
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
The editors of the special issue are very happy to discuss initial ideas
for papers, and can be contacted directly:
References
Heller, D., Watson, D., & Ilies, R. (2004). The role of person vs.
situation in life satisfaction: A critical examination. Psychological
Bulletin, 130, 574-600.
Ilies, R., Schwind, K., & Heller, D. (2007). Employee well-being: A
multi-level model linking work and non-work domains. European Journal of
Work and Organizational Psychology, 16, 326-341.
Reis, H. T., Sheldon, K. M., Gable, S. L., Roscoe, J., & Ryan, R. M.
(2000). Daily well-being: The role of autonomy, competence, and
relatedness. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 419-435.
Sonnentag, S., & Bayer, U.-V. (2005). Switching off mentally: Predictors
and consequences of psychological detachment from work during off-job
time. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 10, 393-414.
Sabine Sonnentag
Professor
University of Konstanz
Psychology Department
Postbox D 42
D- 78457 Konstanz, Germany
+49 7531 88 3742
sabine.sonnentag@uni-konstanz.de
Remus Ilies
Associate Professor of Management
Gary Valade Research Fellow
Michigan State University
N475 North Business Complex
East Lansing, MI 48824-1112
(517) 432-3510
ilies@msu.edu