Work motivation is a topic of crucial importance to the success of organizations and societies
and the well-being of individuals. We organize the work motivation literature over the last …

We review seminal publications on employee turnover during the 100-year existence of the
Journal of Applied Psychology. Along with classic articles from this journal, we expand our …

The COVID-19 pandemic has unhinged the lives of employees across the globe, yet there is
little understanding of how COVID-19 health anxiety (CovH anxiety)—that is, feelings of fear …

Although the general picture in the organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) literature is
that OCB has positive consequences for employees and organizations, an emerging stream …

Job search is an important activity that people engage in during various phases across the
life span (eg, school-to-work transition, job loss, job change, career transition). Based on our …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to define employability within the psychological
literature with a focus upon perceived employability. Design/methodology/approach–To …

This review describes advances over the past decade in what is known about the individual
experience of unemployment, predictors of reemployment, and interventions to speed …

This review distills available empirical research about the process and experience of looking
for a job. Job search varies according to several dimensions, including intensity, content …

Uncertainty is a defining feature of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, because uncertainty
is an aversive state, uncertainty reduction theory (URT) holds that employees try to manage …

The attention paid to intraindividual phenomena in applied psychology has rapidly
increased during the last two decades. However, the design characteristics of studies using …