Potential Problems in the Statistical Control of Variables in Organizational Research: A Qualitative Analysis With Recommendations

By Thomas E. Becker. 2005

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Subfields: Management Information Systems, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Uneasy Lies the Head that Bears the Trust: The Effects of Feeling Trusted on Emotional Exhaustion (2014, result): “Following recent admonitions, we did not include any of these control variables in our final model because they did not alter the results of our hypothesis testing (Becker, 2005; Carlson & Wu, 2012).”
Ethical leadership and knowledge hiding: an intervening and interactional analysis (2020, background): “However, since education, work experience, gender, and age showed insignificant correlations with the mediator and the outcome variable (Table 1), following Becker (2005), the mediation and moderation results were presented without controls.”
Endogeneity: A Review and Agenda for the Methodology-Practice Divide Affecting Micro and Macro Research (2020, background): “Becker, 2005; Bernerth & Aguinis, 2016; Breaugh, 2008; Frost, 1979; McCallum, 1972; Pei, Pischke, & Schwandt, 2019; Spector & Brannick, 2011 Sensitivity Analysis – Estimating the magnitude of the bias created by potential violations of exogeneity assumption by analyzing how the inclusion of control…”
Self‐initiated foreign expatriates versus assigned expatriates: Two distinct types of international careers? (2010, methodology): “The following hypotheses are tested with multivariate regression analyses to control for alternative explanations ( Becker, 2005”
The role of justice and social exchange relationships in workplace deviance: Test of a mediated model (2010, background): “as predictors of deviance variables) so as to partial out their influence on outcomes (Becker, 2005).”
Passion Isn't Always a Good Thing: Examining Entrepreneurs' Network Centrality and Financial Performance with a Dualistic Model of Passion (2014, neutral): “Becker, T. E. (2005).”
Abusive Supervision: A Meta-Analysis and Empirical Review (2017, background): “Although researchers should carefully choose control variables that are theoretically relevant to their conceptual and operational study designs (Carlson & Wu, 2012) and describe why they include particular control variables (Becker, 2005), the weighted mean correlations we report can inform researc”
Authentic leadership extends beyond work: A multilevel model of work-family conflict and enrichment (2017, methodology): “We recommend that future research include additional theoretically relevant control variables (Atinc, Simmering, & Kroll, 2012; Becker, 2005; Bernerth & Aguinis, 2016).”
The relationship between workplace aggression and target deviant behaviour: The moderating roles of power and task interdependence (2012, background): “Spector, Zapf, Chen, and Frese (2000) argued that negative affectivity should not be considered a bias, and Becker (2005) argued against controlling for variables that relate to the dependent variable.”
Teachers’ organizational citizenship behavior: Examining the boundary between in-role behavior and extra-role behavior from the perspective of teachers, principals and parents (2010, methodology): “In line with Becker's (2005) recommendation for treating control variables, we ran the Mixed Model Analyses with and without the control variables (i.”