Journal of Organizational Behavior Virtual Issues
Journal of Organizational Behavior
TopThirty years of shaping a Discipline: JOB's Most Influential Articles, August 2009
Edited by Neal M. Ashkanasy
It is my pleasure to introduce this Virtual Issue, containing on-line reprints of the eight articles judged the most influential of the over 1,100 research articles published in the Journal of Organizational Behavior since its launch (as the Journal of Occupational Behaviour) in 1980. The eight articles cover the period from 1981, when JOB was only one year old, to comparatively recently: 2005. They comprise of a mixture of theory-review, empirical, and commentary-type contributions. These are not necessarily the best written or even the most rigorous. Instead, they are the articles that our OB colleagues have recognized as having the most influence on their own thinking.
The measurement of experienced burnout
Christina Maslach, Susan E. Jackson (1981)
The impact of interpersonal environment on burnout and organizational commitment
Michael P. Leiter, Christina Maslach (1988)
New hire perceptions of their own and their employer's obligations: A study of psychological contracts
Denise M. Rousseau (1990)
Alumni and their alma mater: A partial test of the reformulated model of organizational identification
Fred Mael, Blake E. Ashforth (1992)
Using self-report questionnaires in OB research: A comment on the use of a controversial method
Paul E. Spector (1994)
Violating the psychological contract: Not the exception but the norm
Sandra L. Robinson, Denise M. Rousseau (1994)
Why negative affectivity should not be controlled in job stress research: don't throw out the baby with the bath water
Paul E. Spector, Dieter Zapf, Peter Y. Chen, Michael Frese (2000)
Self-determination theory and work motivation
Marylène Gagné, Edward L. Deci (2005)
