Exploring professionals' motivation to lead: a cross-level study in the healthcare sector

The extant leadership research has paid increasing attention to the concept of motivation to lead (MTL) as an individual construct that strongly affects leadership processes and behaviors. However, despite its importance, scant knowledge is available about how individual characteristics and organizational structural features interact in influencing MTL in professional-based organizations. This article contributes to this line of research by adopting a multilevel perspective to study the MTL among individual professionals in the healthcare sector. We collected data from a sample of 791 physicians nested in 44 departments belonging to 27 hospitals. Using the hierarchical linear model, we tested the impact of individual and organizational variables on the motivation of physicians to engage in managerial positions. Our findings demonstrate that the physicians' MTL was positively associated with their individual self-efficacy. Departmental decentralization interacted with this self-efficacy, such that the effect of self-efficacy on the MTL was significantly lower when decentralization was high. We discuss the implications of these findings for human resource management and organizational (re)design within professional organizations.     

企业管理者工作压力的绩效属性——基于自我效能感的解释

工作压力是一个具有复杂构成特征的过程性框架概念.在明确压力结构要素的基础上,管理者的工作压力可进一步界分为内源压力和外源压力两类.文章通过相关分析发现,对于工作绩效效标而言,管理者内源、外源压力分别呈现良、劣压力属性;而基于回归分析的中介效应检验则表明,管理者的自我效能感在压力和绩效间起中介作用,这部分解释了压力绩效属性的成因和过程机制.文章的研究结论对企业开展管理者的压力管理工作具有重要的启示.     

Mobile learning adoption for tourism education in a developing country

Since developing countries are gradually introducing mobile-based tourism education, it is a growing demand to understand the students’ intention to adopt mobile learning. The study used partial least squares-based structural equation modelling to analyse survey data from 176 questionnaires at three tourism education institutes in Bangladesh. The study contributes to the theory of planned behaviour by examining the antecedent impact of innovativeness and moderating effect of self-efficacy. Results confirmed innovativeness as a significant antecedent on the attitude–intention relationship; however, the moderating effect of self-efficacy has not been supported. The study has marketing implications for tourism education institutes and government bodies.     

现代企业内部信息主动采纳研究

在信息化背景下,企业内部信息主动采纳是考察信息技术和信息系统(IT/IS)在企业组织内扩散并获得主观采纳的动态过程。本文从关注组织内人的主观心理行为出发,分析已有研究,探索得出个体主动采纳的心理感知要素——自我效能(SE),以及组织内主动采纳的重要外推力——组织支持(OS)。自我效能是主动采纳的个体内源力,组织支持是信息主动采纳过程中的双促进因素,组织支持创造的支持型组织氛围,通过作用于人的主观心理会促进自我效能的提高,并间接促进主动采纳目标的实现。由此,横向建立起内外力整合作用的企业内部信息主动采纳运行关系,同时结合纵向的组织层次结构,按照时序性过程纵横推进,并通过系统自身循环反馈透析主动采纳过程中决策目标的分化—整合,动态完整地揭示企业内部信息主动采纳的运行机理。     

Crafting job demands and employee creativity: A diary study

People are more creative on some days than others. Studying how individuals generate creative ideas from day to day could contribute to knowledge regarding the causes of such within-person variations and have practical implications for improving employee creativity across time. By adopting a dynamic resource allocation perspective and a repeated-measure diary design, we developed and examined a theoretical model focusing on the within-person processes of employee creativity. Specifically, we hypothesized that momentary role-breadth self-efficacy predicts daily changes in increasing job challenges, which, in turn, predicts daily changes in employee creativity, and that the latter relationship is accentuated by decreasing hindering demands. Results, based on 818 pairs of matched morning–afternoon observations from 91 employees over 10 workdays, provided support for our predictions. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of these results for improving employee daily creativity.     

Work–family enrichment and satisfaction: the mediating role of self-efficacy and work–life balance

Although the direct effects of work–family enrichment on satisfaction are well-documented, previous theoretical predictions and empirical findings of the relationship have been inconsistent. Drawing on social cognitive theory, the current research examined how work–family enrichment contributes to job and family satisfaction by exploring the mediating mechanisms of self-efficacy and work–life balance. This study also empirically validated a new self-efficacy measure using the work–life interface nomological network. A heterogeneous sample of Australian employees (N = 234) from four different organisations responded to two waves of data collection separated by a 12-month interval. Using structural equation modelling, the results of the statistical analysis provided preliminary support for the hypothesised chain mediation model and the newly developed five-item self-efficacy to regulate work and life scale. Specifically, work-to-family enrichment and family-to-work enrichment were positively related to self-efficacy, which in turn had a positive effect on work–life balance. Similarly, work–life balance had a positive impact on job and family satisfaction. Evidence of these relationships over time was demonstrated, thereby emphasising the importance of person–cognitive resources (e.g. self-efficacy) in influencing life outcomes. Validation of the self-efficacy scale also demonstrated robust psychometric properties and criterion validity. Implications of these results were subsequently discussed.     

Factors Related to Physically Active Leisure among College Students

The purpose of this study was to provide additional information about the complex relation of social cognitive constructs, gender, and active leisure among university students. Structural equation modeling techniques were used to test the hypothesized relations in a sample of 874 undergraduate students. Peer and family support had a moderate direct effect on self-efficacy while self-efficacy had a large direct effect on active leisure. A moderation effect was demonstrated. Peer support was more influential on male respondents' beliefs that they could be active and males reported higher active leisure participation when compared to females. The results of this study provide valuable insight into the mechanisms of influence on active leisure among this university population.     

The Influence of Constraints and Self-Efficacies on Participation in Regular Active Recreation

This study examined the ways in which perceived constraints and self-efficacies associated with participation in active recreation influenced Hong Kong and Australian university students' interest, intention, and participation in regular active recreation. The study indicated that perceived constraints have weak negative effects whereas self-efficacies have stronger positive effects on students' interest, intention, and participation in regular active recreation. Time efficacy, persistence efficacy, and activity efficacy emerged as important indirect motivators of active recreation engagement. The influences of constraints and self-efficacies on active recreation participation mainly occurred indirectly through adjustments in participation interest and intention.     

Examining the motivators of training transfer in an enterprise systems context

Enterprise systems (ES) are large software packages that have been widely adopted, but are complex to deploy. One way to obtain more value from them is to train end-users. However, little is known about the effectiveness of ES training. This study examines post-training behaviour in the ES environment through the concept of training transfer and the theoretical framework of self-determination theory. It proposes that end-users’ computer self-efficacy (CSE) and mastery orientation (MO), as well as the perceived ease-of-use (PEOU) of a system, influence their motivation to transfer the skills they have gained during training to their work environment and to use the system. Data was collected from 170 ES end-users, who had previously attended ES training, through a survey. Partial least squares modelling was used to analyse the data, and all of the hypotheses were supported. This study is among the first few studies that investigate the more distal impact of information systems training.     

自我效能理论对会计专业教学的启示

自我效能理论一经提出就被运用到教育情境中。本文通过对南京铁道职业技术学院高职会计专业学生学习自我效能感现状的调查,对影响高职生专业学习自我效能感的因素进行分析,并结合文献,以高职院校为例,探寻提高高职生专业学习自我效能感水平的具体策略。