Journal of Organizational Psychology

Mindfulness Matters

Melissa Tamburrino — 2024-03-08

Mindfulness is an effective way for educators and students to manage their emotions, as well as reduce stress and anxiety. When implemented, mindfulness practices help students focus on the present moment and regulate their emotions. This article will first define mindfulness and explain how teachers can incorporate mindfulness strategies into an elementary classroom setting. Next, it examines mindfulness programs that school districts are using throughout the United States. Then, it explains social emotional learning and activities that support these practices within the classroom. The article concludes by offering outcomes and implications for mindfulness. Through mindfulness techniques, students can foster a positive environment and improve their social and physical well-being.

COVID-19 Changes the Nature of Tele-Mental Health: A Scope Review

Teuta Cata — 2024-03-08

COVID-19 temporarily removed legal restrictions, institutional hurdles, organizational impediments, and technological barriers to telemental health implementations that allow mental health therapists to apply virtual meeting technologies to serve their patients. Therapists transitioned from an under-appreciated health sub-specialty small business model to essential caregiver status needing management and technological expertise to measure service quality and outcomes. A systematic literature review identified factors essential for mental health workers and organizations transitioning patient therapy models from face-to-face to online support services under pandemic restrictions. This study revealed that management, technology, health services, and legal issues represent four critical areas of e-health research during the pandemic restrictions. This study suggests that telehealth applications require alterations in both the training and skills of the providers and the need for effective management of the telehealth business as digital mental health platforms supplant traditional delivery channels. Post-pandemic telehealth applications should be a blended approach that combines the best experiences from traditional treatments and virtual ones based on the digital skills of patients and healthcare providers.

Spirituality and the Health of U. S. College Students: A Partial Replication and Extension

Jeffrey A. Miles — 2024-03-08

Spirituality has been linked with numerous positive effects, and the university experience is generally viewed as an important time for students to develop their spiritual identities. The purpose of this study was to partially replicate and extend the findings of Nelms et al. (2007) on the relationship between spirituality and the health of university students. In a survey study of 968 first-year undergraduate students in the western United States, we found that spirituality was associated with higher levels of physical health, emotional health, and exercise, and these relationships were generally different for white individuals and men than for minorities and women.

Integrating Polyvagal Theory With Agile Project Management

Geoffrey VanderPal — 2024-03-08

The modern project management environment has become more complex due to various influences. For instance, stress and trauma are recognized as powerful influences on employee behaviors and decision-making. Although past studies have attempted to understand the psychology behind this phenomenon, scarce research has been performed on the influence of the autonomic nervous system on project management outcomes. Accordingly, this paper investigates the underlying nervous system responses that shape project management activities in different organizations. It relies on the Polyvagal Theory to elucidate the neurobiological responses that emerge when project managers are faced with stressful, dangerous or life-threatening situations. Thus, the paper can offer feasible recommendations for optimizing project management outcomes by strengthening the link between the heart, mind, and body.

Self-Stress: A New Perspective on Stress and Moral Disorders of Civilization

Joao Carlos Orquiza — 2024-03-24

This essay delves into self-stress arising from societal expectations and moral norms. It compares pre-agricultural life, focused on physical survival, with post-agricultural life, where stress is linked to productivity and social demands. Compulsory human labor is highlighted as a significant source of chronic stress, posing a direct threat by mandating individuals to "earn a living." The role of moral rules in today’s society is explored, potentially influencing the shift of stress from physical to internalized. The essay proposes critical reflection on the impact of the "civilizing moral we," where collective achievements are internalized, possibly contributing to contemporary chronic stress and impacting mental health and societal cohesion. Despite apparent civilizational evolution, the concept of private property remains invulnerable, akin to prehistory. Given this complexity, there is a need to consider reformulating current morality to better address genuine human needs.

The Impact of Perceived Leadership Effectiveness on Job Satisfaction Among Mental Health Practitioners in Nonprofit Organizations

Joey Pham — 2024-04-26

Leadership has been a fascinating research topic for many years and garners substantial interest from many organizations seeking to enhance and maximize human resources. Leadership effectiveness was especially identified as one of the most influential moderator for employee job satisfaction. Three additional components that served as the control variables were: organizational commitment, performance, and occupational burnout. Multiple regression analysis was utilized to explore the impact of their relationship with employee job satisfaction. The results confirmed that an employee’s perception of his or her leader’s effectiveness was paramount to job satisfaction compared to the effects of controlled variables.

Meta-Analysis: Job Satisfaction and Job Performance Moderated by National Economic Development and Performance Scales

Daniela Petrovski — 2024-04-26

Job satisfaction and job performance are some of the most researched topics in the organizational literature. These have prompted academics to test the strength of this relationship with meta-analysis. However, some academics state that job satisfaction contributes to job performance while others say that it might be that job performance leads to job satisfaction. The most probable explanation is that this relationship is affected by moderators and mediators. This paper tests the moderators of national economic development (developed vs developing countries) and the moderator of self vs other-rated job performance in a meta-analysis study.

The Work-Life Balance of Nursing Professionals: An Information Technology Context

Gary Hackbarth — 2024-04-26

Evaluating Information Technology (IT) and Nursing Professionals’ intentions to leave their organizations during COVID-19 using Critical Lens Theory found similar perceptions toward job burnout and the 6Cs of nursing. Both groups suffer from similar levels of emotional exhaustion. Nurses exhibit lower levels of Depersonalization and Personal Accomplishment than IT Professionals. IT professionals scored lower across the 6Cs of nursing, supporting the stereotype of IT professionals exhibiting lower levels of care and compassion toward customers. IT Professionals scored higher on Personal Accomplishments. Interestingly, both groups seemed to keep their options open in seeking new jobs or quitting their current position.