Journal Articles

2021 Mao, J., Chang, S., Gong, Y., & Xie, J.L. (in press). “Team job-related anxiety and creativity: Investigating team-level and cross-level moderated curvilinear relationships”, Journal of Organizational Behavior, 42(1): https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2489.

OWL InSight: The key takeaway from this research is that team-level job-related anxiety has an inverted U-shaped curvilinear relationship with both team and individual creativity. 

2020 Karakowsky, L., Podolsky, M. & Elangovan, A.R., “Signaling Trustworthiness: The Effect of Leader Humor on Feedback-Seeking Behavior”, Journal of Social Psychology, 160(2):170-189.  doi: 10.1080/00224545.2019.1620161.

OWL InSight: The key takeaway from this research is that leader humour can impact subordinate feedback-seeking behaviour by influencing on subordinates’ affect-based and cognition-based trust in the leader.

2019 Xie, J.L., Elangovan, A.R., Hu, J., & Hrabliuk, C., "Charting New Terrain in Work Design: A Study of Hybrid Work Characteristics", Applied Psychology: An International Review, 68 (3), 479–512, doi: 10.1111/apps.12169. 

OWL InSight: The key takeaway from this research is that modern day work is characterized by boundarylessness, multitasking, non-work-related interruptions, and a demand for constant learning, which impact us (our satisfaction, commitment, emotional exhaustion, etc.) in both beneficial and detrimental ways.

2018. Li, W. D., Schaubroeck, J. M., Xie, J. L., & Keller, A. C. “Is being a leader a mixed blessing? A dual-pathway model linking leadership role occupancy to well-being”, Journal of Organizational Behavior, 39: 971-989. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2273.

OWL InSight: The key takeaway from this research is that incumbency in leadership positions is positively related to high levels of both job demands and job control, whereas job demands and job control have offsetting effects on well‐being. Hence, the relationship between leadership role occupancy and job holders’ well-being is insignificant. 

2015 Peng, A.C., Schaubroeck, J., & Xie, J.L. “When confidence comes and goes: How variation in self-efficacy moderates stressor-strain relationships”, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 20(3): 359-376. 

OWL InSight: The key takeaway from this research is that job stressors are more positively associated with psychological strain among those with high and stable self-efficacy than those with high and variable self-efficacy. 

2008 Xie, J. L., Schaubroeck, J. & Lam, S. “Theories of job stress and the role of traditional values: A longitudinal study in China,” Journal of Applied Psychology, 93: 831-848. 

OWL InSight: The key takeaway from this research is that employees’ cultural values (i.e., traditionality) and perceived organizational justice play an important role in affecting the relationship between job demands, job control, and employee psychological and physiological well-being.

2001 Schaubroeck, J., Jones, J. R., & Xie, J. L. Individual differences in utilizing control to cope with job demands: Effects on susceptibility to infectious disease. Journal of Applied Psychology, 86: 265-278.

OWL InSight: The key takeaway from this research is that individual differences in explanatory style and job self-efficacy affect the interactive effects of job demands and perceived job control on employees’ upper respiratory illnesses and immune function.  

2000 Schaubroeck, J., Lam, S., & Xie, J. L. Collective efficacy versus self-efficacy in coping responses to stressors and control: A cross-cultural study. Journal of Applied Psychology, 85: 512-525.

OWL InSight: The key takeaway from this cross-cultural comparative research is that cultural and individual differences shape people’s conceptions of efficacy, which have an important impact on their stress coping. 

1996 Xie, J. L.  Karasek's model in the People's Republic of China: Effects of job demands, control, and individual differences.  Academy of Management Journal, 39: 1594-1618. 

OWL InSight: The key takeaway from this research is that the leading theory of work stress - Karasek's job demands and control model - needs to be amended and extended to take individual and socioeconomic differences into account.

1995 Xie, J. L., & Johns, G.  Job scope and stress: Can job scope be too high?  Academy of Management Journal, 38: 1288-1309. 

OWL InSight: The key takeaway from this research is that job complexity has a U-shaped curvilinear relationship with job holders’ psychological well-being.

Books/Book Chapters

2001 Xie, J.L., & Schaubroeck, J. Bridging approaches and findings across diverse disciplines to improve job stress research., In Exploring theoretical mechanisms and perspectives (pp. 1–61). Elsevier Science/JAI Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1479-3555(01)01009-5

OWL InSight: The key takeaway from this research is to call for an integration of the diverse approaches adopted in different disciplinary areas for job stress research.