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Cue consistency matters: How and when newcomers respond to supervisor creativity expectations (2023)
Journal Article
Chen, J., Cooper-Thomas, H., & Cheung, G. (2023). Cue consistency matters: How and when newcomers respond to supervisor creativity expectations. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 34(22), 4291-4312. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2023.2189022

Organizations may hire newcomers as a source of creativity, bringing fresh ideas and novel solutions to benefit organizational performance. However, the conditions that foster newcomer innovation are not well understood. Drawing on behavioral plastic... Read More about Cue consistency matters: How and when newcomers respond to supervisor creativity expectations.

Finding one's own way: How newcomers who differ stay well (2022)
Journal Article
Chen, J., & Cooper-Thomas, H. D. (in press). Finding one's own way: How newcomers who differ stay well. Evidence-based HRM, https://doi.org/10.1108/EBHRM-06-2022-0153

Purpose: Being different from others can be stressful, and this may be especially salient for newcomers during organizational socialization when they may be expected to fit in. Thus, drawing on conservation of resources theory, the authors examine th... Read More about Finding one's own way: How newcomers who differ stay well.

The effects of individual differentiation on newcomer group identification (2021)
Journal Article
Chen, J., & Cooper-Thomas, H. D. (2021). The effects of individual differentiation on newcomer group identification. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 36(5), 461-473. https://doi.org/10.1108/JMP-05-2020-0253

Purpose: With organizations hiring from increasingly diverse labor markets, this study aims to examine the implications of newcomers’ individual differentiation for their group identification. The paper proposes and tests a self-verification process... Read More about The effects of individual differentiation on newcomer group identification.

The newcomer understanding and integration scale: Psychometric evidence across six samples (2019)
Journal Article
Cooper-Thomas, H. D., Stadler, M., Park, J. H., Chen, J., Au, A. K. C., Tan, K. W. T., …Tansley, S. (2020). The newcomer understanding and integration scale: Psychometric evidence across six samples. Journal of Business and Psychology, 35(4), 435-454. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-019-09636-9

Models of organizational socialization situate newcomer understanding and social integration as critical proximal outcomes, yet researchers have identified both theoretical and psychometric weaknesses in existing survey measures. Drawing on prior res... Read More about The newcomer understanding and integration scale: Psychometric evidence across six samples.

Hourly paid teachers in UK universities: Findings from an exploratory survey (2015)
Journal Article
Chen, J., & Lopes, A. (2015). Hourly paid teachers in UK universities: Findings from an exploratory survey

The Higher Education sector in the UK has seen some unprecedented changes in recent years. One of the most striking changes has been the widespread use of casualised contracts in UK universities. In 2012-13, almost 34 per cent of academics worked par... Read More about Hourly paid teachers in UK universities: Findings from an exploratory survey.

Are "standardized performance appraisal practices" really preferred? A case study in China (2010)
Journal Article
Chen, J., & Eldridge, D. (2010). Are "standardized performance appraisal practices" really preferred? A case study in China. Chinese Management Studies, 4(3), 244-257. https://doi.org/10.1108/17506141011074138

Purpose: In spite of the increasing awareness that standardized performance appraisal practices must fit in varied local contexts, limited research and mixed findings still cloud our understanding about how those appraisal practices are perceived and... Read More about Are "standardized performance appraisal practices" really preferred? A case study in China.