Merits

2021 - 2025

Current editor(s): Ms. Aria Hou

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Volume 5, issue 2, 2025

Innovative Human Resource Management Strategies for Circular Economy Transition: Comparative Insights from Portugal and Sweden pp. 1-15

Natália Teixeira

Microaggressions in the Workplace: A Guide for Managers pp. 1-19

Jennifer Feitosa, Aaliyah Marie Almeida and Teslin Ishee

A Bibliometric Analysis of Women Entrepreneurship: Current Trends and Challenges pp. 1-32

Marcus Goncalves and Esteban De La Vega Ahumada

Volume 5, issue 1, 2025

Leadership and Entrepreneurial Choices: Understanding the Motivational Dynamics of Women Entrepreneurs in Iran pp. 1-34

Marcus Goncalves, Sadaf Sartipi and Ghazale Asadi Damavandi

Marketing Challenges in Entrepreneurship: Perspectives from Business Students pp. 1-17

Anas Al-Fattal

When Leaders Are Safe Havens: How Secure Base Leadership Buffers the Impact of Emotional Demands on Exhaustion pp. 1-14

María C. Navas-Jiménez, Ana Laguia, Rocio Schettini, Fidel Rodríguez-Batalla, David Guillén-Corchado and Juan A. Moriano

Relationship Between Mobbing and Organizational Performance: Workplace Well-Being and Individual Performance as Serial Mediation Mechanisms pp. 1-20

Larissa Ronha and Rosa Isabel Rodrigues

How to Maintain Compliance Among Host Country Employees as the COVID-19 Pandemic Fades: An Attempt to Apply Conservation of Resources Theory to the Workplace pp. 1-23

Keisuke Kokubun, Yoshiaki Ino and Kazuyoshi Ishimura

The Role of Adaptive Leadership in Times of Crisis: A Systematic Review and Conceptual Framework pp. 1-25

Michele Kremer Sott and Mariluza Sott Bender

A Construct Validity Study for the Humility at Work Scale: Item-Content Validity and Convergent-Discriminant Validity pp. 1-25

Steven Mellor and Ross Elliott

Volume 4, issue 4, 2024

State of Play in the Implementation of the Principles of Inclusive Leadership in Fintech Companies in Lithuania pp. 1-14

Justina Budreikaitė, Violeta Rapuano and Agota Giedrė Raišienė

Artificial Intelligence and Job Automation: Challenges for Secondary Students’ Career Development and Life Planning pp. 1-30

Lawrence P. W. Wong

The Transformation of Work—Conducting and Aggregating Research on Human Resources in SMEs Facing Transformation Pressure pp. 1-13

Fabienne Riesel, Volker Bräutigam and Florian Wittmeier

Leadership and Quality Enhancement in Secondary Education: A Comparative Analysis of TQM and EFQM pp. 1-13

Sophia Anastasiou and Konstantinos Ntokas

Just Sustainabilities: Building Bridges and Breaking Barriers to Empower Employees for Inclusive Workplaces—Evidence from Ghana pp. 1-21

Ernest Nkansah-Dwamena

Occupational Health Risks and HIV Prevention Programming for Informal Extractive Miners in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Narrative Review of Interventions, Challenges, and Lessons Learned pp. 1-15

Tafadzwa Dzinamarira, Enos Moyo, Diego F. Cuadros, Helena Herrera, Oscar Mano, Ferris T. Munyonho, Malizgani Mhango and Godfrey Musuka

Burnout and Turnover Intention Among Community and Hospital Pharmacists in Metro Manila, Philippines pp. 1-12

Rogie Royce Carandang, Forter Puguon, Mary Louisse Santos, Elizabeth Ilagan, Kellie Gwyneth Gamboa and Jose Gerardo Aquino

The Impact of Perceived Leadership Effectiveness and Emotional Intelligence on Employee Satisfaction in the Workplace pp. 1-12

Rosa Rodrigues, Natália Teixeira and Bernardo Costa

Long Working Hours and Unhealthy Lifestyles of Workers: A Protocol for a Scoping Review pp. 1-9

Seong-Uk Baek, Jong-Uk Won and Jin-Ha Yoon

Empowering Leadership in the Military: Pros and Cons pp. 1-24

João Teixeira, Leonor Pais, Nuno Rebelo dos Santos and Bruno de Sousa

When Dark Personality Gets Darker: The Intersection of Injustice, Moral Disengagement, and Unethical Decision Making pp. 1-17

Justin Travis, Catherine A. Neale and Samuel J. Wilgus

Talent Management Practices and Employee Retention: Does It Make a Difference? pp. 1-10

Ali Mohammed Almashyakhi

Volume 4, issue 3, 2024

Occupational Safety from an Individual Perspective: The Influence of Extraversion on Compliance with Safety Standards for Emergency Employees and Nurses pp. 1-12

Jazael Albalá-Genol, Pedro A. Díaz-Fúnez, Francisco G. Martín-Martín and Miguel A. Mañas-Rodríguez

Editorial from the New Editor-in-Chief of Merits pp. 1-2

Gabriela Topa

(Re)Considering Online Organizations: Communicating and Organizing via New Technology for High Reliability pp. 1-15

William T. Howe and Onyinyechi Beatrice Nwoko

Correction: Clarkson et al. Evaluating Strategies to Increase the Number of Women Working in the UK Surveying Profession. Merits 2023, 3, 263–296 pp. 1-1

Sinéad Clarkson, Lucy Hind and Sambo Lyson Zulu

Assessing the Mediating Effect of Team-Member Exchange on the Relationship between Transformational Leadership and Performance of People with Disabilities: A Study of Hong Kong Employers of People with Disabilities pp. 1-13

Anthony Tak Kin Wong

Assessing the Relationship between Physical Activity and Depression in Lawyers and Law Professionals: A Cross-Sectional Study pp. 1-13

Chapman Cox, Matthew S. Thiese and Joseph A. Allen

Forging Innovative Leadership: The Power of Agility, Diversity, and Risk-Taking Configurations pp. 1-14

Fernanda Bethlem Tigre

Challenging Assumptions: Gender, Peer Evaluations, and the Broken Rung in Leadership Trajectories pp. 1-14

Saskia L. Shirley and Jennifer Feitosa

Administration and K-12 Teachers Promoting Stress Adaptation and Thriving: Lessons Learned from the COVID Pandemic pp. 1-17

Wendy Rowe and Jennifer Walinga

Volume 4, issue 2, 2024

Exploring the Influence of Crime on NEET Rates: A Regional Analysis of Italy pp. 1-14

Iacopo Odoardi, Dario D’Ingiullo, Ada Di Nucci and Davide Quaglione

Time Incongruences and Wait Crafting pp. 1-14

Elisabeth Nöhammer

Training to Achieve Sustainable Employment for Youth and Young Adults pp. 1-14

Cristina de Sousa and Fernando Acabado Romana

Does Changing a Scale’s Context Impact Its Psychometric Properties? A Comparison Using the PERMA-Profiler and the Workplace PERMA-Profiler pp. 1-9

Sean P. M. Rice

Knowledge of Infection Prevention and Control and Practice Behaviors among Career and Volunteer Firefighters in Rural Communities pp. 1-13

Edrisa Sanyang, Ashley Adams, Ritchie Taylor, Vernell McDonald, Gretchen Macy and Jacqueline Basham

Leadership Energy Theory for Sustaining Leadership Competence and Effectiveness pp. 1-20

Oluseye Olugboyega, Obuks Ejohwomu, Emmanuel Dele Omopariola and Alohan Omoregie

Automated Competence Assessment Procedures in Entrepreneurship pp. 1-18

Markus Marschhäuser, Fabienne Riesel and Volker Bräutigam

Volume 4, issue 1, 2024

Key Factors of Organizational Resilience in Prisons and Police Forces in French-Speaking Switzerland during COVID-19 pp. 1-15

Camille Giovannini and David Giauque

Workloads of Emergency Call Types in Active-Duty Firefighters pp. 1-18

Rudi A. Marciniak, David J. Cornell, Barbara B. Meyer, Razia Azen, Michael D. Laiosa and Kyle T. Ebersole

A Multilevel Analysis of Changes in Psychological Demands over Time on Employee Burnout pp. 1-16

Annick Parent-Lamarche, Alain Marchand and Sabine Saade

Workplace Leadership Development Practices: An Environmental Scan pp. 1-16

Roslyn Cameron, Christine Edwards and Gregory Harper

Be the Change You Want to See: Problem-Based Learning to Promote Diversity, Justice, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Sustainability in the Classroom and Workplace pp. 1-16

Franziska M. Renz and Julian U. N. Vogel

Capacitating Pedagogy to Inclusive Excellence through Bienvivance for Zero Waste of Human Resources: European Case Studies during the Lockdown on Vocational Education and Training pp. 1-14

Bénédicte Gendron

Ohio’s 5G and Broadband Workforce: Assessing the Current Landscape Using Skillshed Analysis pp. 1-13

Ryan Humeniuk, Elham Erfanian and G. Jason Jolley

Volume 3, issue 4, 2023

Effectiveness of Digital and Analog Stress Management Interventions within Occupational Health Management in the Public Sector pp. 1-25

Runa Maj Fasthoff, Lea Nolte and Timo Kortsch

Ageing Organizations: Reviewing the Literature and Making a Few Recommendations for Human Resource Management pp. 1-14

Alfredo Salomão Filho, Tanja Tillmanns and Trudy Corrigan

Non-Native English-Speaking Teachers and Self-Appreciation: How Non-Native English-Speaking Teachers Can Gain Equity by Learning to Appreciate Themselves pp. 1-14

Simon Perry

The Psychological Effects of Relational Job Characteristics Scale: An Adaptation Study for Brazilian K-12 Teachers pp. 1-14

Natan Klein, Carlos Costa, João P. Marôco, Cicero Roberto Pereira and Maria José Chambel

Intersection of Gender and Disability on Returns to Education: A Case from Metro Manila, Philippines pp. 1-18

Kamal Lamichhane and Takayuki Watanabe

Dynamic Evaluation Approaches to Telehealth Technologies and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Telemedicine Applications in Healthcare and Biotechnology Organizations pp. 1-22

Darrell Norman Burrell

Volume 3, issue 3, 2023

“So, Why Were You Late Again?”: Social Account’s Influence on the Behavioral Transgression of Being Late to a Meeting pp. 1-19

Joseph A. Allen, Emilee Eden, Katherine C. Castro, McKaylee Smith and Joseph E. Mroz

Belbin’s Team Role Balance and Team Effectiveness in Community Mental Health Teams in an Area of Northwest Ireland: Implications for Leadership pp. 1-11

Dimitrios Adamis, Georgia Maria Krompa, Abdul Rauf, Owen Mulligan and Edmond O’Mahony

Women’s Leadership and COVID-19 Pandemic: Navigating Crises through the Application of Connective Leadership pp. 1-21

Chris T. Cartwright, Maura Harrington, Sarah Smith Orr and Tessa Sutton

Benevolent Leadership: Unveiling the Impact of Supervisor Gender on HR Practices and Employee Commitment pp. 1-15

Lena Göbel and Steffen Burkert

Mother Leads with Her Heart: A Case Study of Women Worker Leaders in the Men-Dominated Forestry Sector pp. 1-13

Pipiet Larasatie and Chorirotun Nur Ulifah

Perceived Workplace Support for Employee Participation in Workplace Wellness Programs: A Brief Report pp. 1-10

Jennifer Altman, Casey Mace Firebaugh, Stephanie M. Morgan and Michael Epstein

Hierarchical Culture as a Cross-Level Moderator of the Relationship between Transformational Leadership, Performance Feedback, and Employee Job Performance pp. 1-17

Michelle Chin Chin Lee and Alyssa Yen Lyn Ding

Teaching and Playing? A Survey on Young Musicians’ Well-Being and Motivations pp. 1-17

Silvia Sacchetti and Andrea Salustri

A Comparative Study of Burnout among Several Teachers’ Specializations in Secondary Schools of Thessaloniki pp. 1-16

Efrosini Chryssouli and Theodore Koutroukis

Perceived Distributed Leadership, Job Satisfaction, and Professional Satisfaction among Academics in Guanajuato Universities pp. 1-16

Salustia Teresa Cano Ibarra, Maria Teresa De La Garza Carranza, Patricia Galvan Morales and Jose Porfirio Gonzalez Farias

Relationships between Leadership Styles and Prosocial Motivation Depend on Cultural Values: A Case Study in Sri Lanka pp. 1-14

Donald G. Gardner and Vathsala Wickramasinghe

Career Development of Early Career Researchers via Distributed Peer Mentoring Networks pp. 1-14

Annika Martin, Julia Mori and Dominik Emanuel Froehlich

Volume 3, issue 2, 2023

Engaging “Care” Behaviors in Support of Employee and Organizational Wellbeing through Complexity Leadership Theory pp. 1-10

Merike Kolga

To Share or Not to Share: A Framework for Understanding Coworker Collaborative Consumption pp. 1-14

Charles Touma and Anita D. Bhappu

Challenges Women Experience in Leadership Careers: An Integrative Review pp. 1-24

Enkhzul Galsanjigmed and Tomoki Sekiguchi

A Social-Ecological Model for Inclusion Processes in Urban Agriculture of Vienna, Austria pp. 1-17

Sophie Kathrin Schaffernicht and Elisabeth Quendler

Evaluating Strategies to Increase the Number of Women Working in the UK Surveying Profession pp. 1-34

Sinéad Clarkson, Lucy Hind and Sambo Lyson Zulu

Finnish Police Supervisors’ Conceptions of Workplace Learning and Its Sustainability pp. 1-19

Annamaria Lumiala and Kaija Marjukka Collin

Peeling Away the Layers of Workplace Gossip: A Framework, Review, and Future Research Agenda to Study Workplace Gossip as a Dynamic and Complex Behavior pp. 1-21

Vanessa Begemann, Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock and Maie Stein

Millennials and Early Retirement: An Exploratory Study pp. 1-15

Igor Tkalec

Pursuing Educational Partnerships in Diasporic Contexts: Teachers Responding to Pacific Voice in Their Work pp. 1-15

Cherie Chu-Fuluifaga and Martyn Reynolds

Education, Off-the-Job Vocational Training, and Early Employment Outcomes: Evidence from Italy pp. 1-15

Giorgia Casalone and Eliana Baici

Volume 3, issue 1, 2023

New Public Management in Abu Dhabi: Effects on Employee Loyalty, Organizational Citizenship Behaviors, and Work–Life Balance pp. 1-19

Ahmed Al Hebsi and Stephen Wilkins

The Impact of COVID-19 on Women and Work: Career Advancement Challenges pp. 1-19

Sara McPhee Lafkas, Marin Christensen and Susan R. Madsen

The Impact of COVID-19 on Working Women with Caring Responsibilities: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis pp. 1-19

Randal Joy Thompson

Validating Sustainable Career Indicators: A Case Study in a European Energy Company pp. 1-18

Carla Curado, Tiago Gonçalves and Cláudia Ribeiro

Key Factors That Contribute to the Development of Resilience in Successful Women Leaders Who Experience Disrespect and the Importance of Respect in the Post-Pandemic Workplace pp. 1-18

Carrie Spell-Hansson

Acknowledgment to the Reviewers of Merits in 2022 pp. 1-2

Merits Editorial Office

Meaning, Needs, and Workplace Spirituality pp. 1-20

Elisabeth Nöhammer

What If Moms Quiet Quit? The Role of Maternity Leave Policy in Working Mothers’ Quiet Quitting Behaviors pp. 1-20

Tingting Zhang and Chloe Rodrigue

An Empirical Examination of the Genesis of Psychological Ownership pp. 1-14

Donald G. Gardner, Jon L. Pierce and Feng Lv

Accommodating Employees with Impairments and Health Problems: The Role of Flexible Employment Schemes in Europe pp. 1-26

Eleftherios Giovanis and Oznur Ozdamar

Dimensionality of the Causes of Churning: A Multivariate Statistical Analysis pp. 1-16

Olga Alexandra Chinita Pirrolas and Pedro Miguel Alves Ribeiro Correia

Digging into “Zoom Fatigue”: A Qualitative Exploration of Remote Work Challenges and Virtual Meeting Stressors pp. 1-16

Svea Luebstorf, Joseph A. Allen, Emilee Eden, William S. Kramer, Roni Reiter-Palmon and Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock

The Construction of the “Older Worker” pp. 1-16

Hannes Zacher and Cort W. Rudolph

Charting the Journey of Young Leaders: A New Model of Transferability of Skills pp. 1-24

Despoina Karagianni, Olga Lainidi and Anthony Montgomery