The essential impact of context on organizational behavior

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: Johns, G
• 署名单位: Concordia University - Canada
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• DOI: 10.5465/amr.2006.20208687
• 发表日期: 2006
• 页码: 386-408
• 关键词: Sickness absence; Performance evaluation; empirical-analysis; JOB-PERFORMANCE; TRAUMATIC EVENT; WORK ATTITUDES; employee; absenteeism; turnover; determinants

摘要

I argue that the impact of context on organizational behavior is not sufficiently recognized or appreciated by researchers. I define context as situational opportunities and constraints that affect the occurrence and meaning of organizational behavior as well as functional relationships between variables, and I propose two levels of analysis for thinking about context-one grounded in journalistic practice and the other in classic social psychology. Several means of contextualizing research are considered.