@article{2011:von_rosenstiel:employee_b,
title = {Employee Behavior in Organizations. On the Current State of Research},
year = {2011},
note = {The article gives an overview about scientific research on individual
behavior in organizations. A number of reasons are discussed why it is
difficult to obtain a coherent body of knowledge about this topic,
some of them meta-theoretical and methodological, others political,
organizational and ideological, e.g. the existence of different
schools of psychology, one-sided and interest-laden views, the
dominance of survey methodology, measurement problems, the submission
of researchers to dominant styles of publishing. The article further
reports on main insights about the effects of stable and variable
personal traits, and of situational conditions on employee behavior
and about practical consequences. The conclusion is that there is a
lot of well-founded knowledge, especially about the aptitudes of
employees, but on the other hand one finds remarkable ignorance on
behaviour which has no direct relation to performance and on the
impacts of specific work and organizational conditions.},
journal = {mrev management revue},
pages = {344--366},
author = {von Rosenstiel, Lutz},
volume = {22},
number = {4}
}