The Rated Importance, Scientific Validity, and Practical Usefulness of Organizational Behavior Theories: A Quantitative Review

By J. Miner. 2003

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Information Systems and Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Commentary on Arthur Bedeian’s “The Manuscript Review Process: The Proper Roles of Authors, Referees, and Editors” (2003, background): “In a study of the importance ratings of organizational behavior theories given by strategic management and organizational behavior judges we found that a strong tendency existed to evaluate these theories less favorably among the strategic management people (Miner, 2003).”
The development of goal setting theory: A half century retrospective. (2019, background): “It has been rated as the most valid and practical theory of work motivation (Lee & Earley, 1992; Miner, 2003; Pinder, 1998).”
The Bright and Dark Sides of Personality: Implications for Personnel Selection in Individual and Team Contexts (2007, background): “izational psychology’ and Miner (2003) found that organizational behavior scholars”
How Can We Know What We Think Until We See What We Said?: A Citation and Citation Context Analysis of Karl Weick’s The Social Psychology of Organizing (2006, background): “Miner (2003) surveyed 95 scholars who gave Weick’s work on the social psychology of organizing and sensemaking a mean importance rating of 5.51 out of 7 — a higher mean importance rating than that given to all but six of the 73 dominant theories of organizational behavior.”
Relationship between Motivational Factors and Job Performance of Employees in Malaysian Service Industry (2013, background): “Miner (2003) believes if one wishes to create a highly valid theory, which is also constructed with the purpose of enhanced usefulness in practice in mind, it would be best to look to motivation theories for an appropriate model.”
Employee commitment and motivation: a conceptual analysis and integrative model. (2004, background): “Goal setting is among the most dominant theories of work motivation (Miner, 2003), and Locke’s general model is one of the most comprehensive to date.”
Beyond motivation: job and work design for development, health, ambidexterity, and more. (2014, background): “On the theoretical front, Miner (2003) rated work design theory as one of the few theories in the field of organizational behavior that are simultaneously important, valid, and useful.”
Giving Time, Time After Time: Work Design and Sustained Employee Participation in Corporate Volunteering (2012, background): “Scholars have rated work design as one of a very small number of theoretical perspectives in organizational behavior that is simultaneously high in validity, importance, and usefulness (Miner, 2003).”
Empathetic Leadership: How Leader Emotional Support and Understanding Influences Follower Performance (2018, background): “Management scholars have recognized the role of leader emotional support at least since the Hawthorne studies, and have been developing studies on emotional support since the Ohio State and Michigan University studies (Miner, 2002, 2003).”
The Case for Inductive Theory Building† (2007, background): “To avoid the accusation of egocentric bias in regard to including our own theory, suffice it to say that goal theory was ranked number 1 in importance out of 73 management theories by organizational behavior professors (Miner, 2003).”
The dark side of consecutive high performance goals: Linking goal setting, depletion, and unethical behavior (2014, background): “Although goal setting has been rated as the most important theory in the organizational behavior literature (Miner, 2003) and uses many of the same mechanisms as self-regulatory resource theories, these literatures had not yet been integrated.”
Tackling Design Anew: Getting Back to the Heart of Organizational Theory (2010, background): “And as Miner (2003) noted, there is no shortage of theories.”