Locus of control at work: a meta‐analysis
By Thomas W. H. Ng, K. Sorensen, L. Eby. 2006
731 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology
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In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
- Wilmar B. Schaufeli
- Arnold B. Bakker
- Deanne N. den Hartog
- Gene M. Alarcon
- N. Bowling
- Thomas W. H. Ng
- Pascale M. Le Blanc
- Cary L. Cooper
In Social Psychology
- Wilmar B. Schaufeli
- Roy F. Baumeister
- Kathleen D. Vohs
- N. Bowling
- Pascale M. Le Blanc
- Gene M. Alarcon
- E. Ouweneel
- Arnold B. Bakker
Citations in the corpus
- Personal Philosophy and Personnel Achievement: Belief in Free Will Predicts Better Job Performance (2010, positive): “A more recent quantitative meta-analysis found that internal locus of control predicted many favorable job-related outcomes (Thomas, Sorensen, & Eby, 2006).”
- Investigating the influences of core self‐evaluations, job autonomy, and intrinsic motivation on in‐role job performance (2010, background): “Ng et al. (2006) also argued that locus of control may be viewed as a trait that relates to individuals’ intrinsic motivation.”
- Organizational Support, Individual Attributes, and the Practice of Career Self-Management Behavior (2010, background): “…of their own destiny and perceive a strong link between their actions and consequences, whereas those with an external locus of control (“Externals”) do not believe they are in control of their own fate and tend to attribute personal outcomes to luck or fate (Ng et al., 2006; Spector, 1982).”
- Entrepreneurship as a career choice: The impact of locus of control on aspiring entrepreneurs' opportunity recognition (2019, background): “It identified and tested the ability to recognize entrepreneurial opportunity as a behavioral consequence of aspiring entrepreneurs' locus of control (Ng et al., 2006).”
- Performance appraisals and job satisfaction (2017, positive): “Based on our hypothesis one could have concluded that for employees, who perceive to have more control over their life (internals), the use of performance assessments should have a stronger effect on job satisfaction (Spector et al., 2002; Ng et al., 2006).”