Organizational Psychology

We are glad to introduce our readers to new issue of Organizational Psychology Journal.
The current issue starts from the article «Work–life balance in Russian production enterprise employees» by A. Mospan, E. Osin, T. Ivanova, E. Rasskazova, V. Bobrov (International Laboratory of Positive Psychology of Personality and Motivation, HSE). The article presents a theoretical analysis of approaches to work– life balance research and findings of an empirical study of this construct in a large sample of employees of a Russian production enterprise situated in six regions of the country. Using confirmatory factor analysis, authors developed 11 short scales reflecting different types of work–life relationship (balance, conflict, negative spillover, positive spillover, compensation, independence). This research opens up that work–life balance was more positively evaluated by females, older respondents, those with higher education and position, and higher family income. A balanced distribution of priorities and efforts was an essential predictor of well–being in working males. Working females reported higher well–being when they viewed work as a life priority, but invested efforts in family and their own health.
In the «Practice in Organizational Psychology» section we offer the article by Liudmila Aksenovskaya «Change of organizational culture at the level of the leader: experience of individual sotering». This article is devoted to the problem of organizational culture (OC) change by the method of sotering, paper briefly presents theoretical aspects of the order approach to OC change, concept and technology of sotering as a method of OC change. Also the fragment of the protocol of individual training on a sotering for the leader of the organization is presented and analyzed.
The article «Psychological readiness for organizational change: approaches, concepts, methods» by Е. Naumtseva is presented in the «Reviews» section. It deals with the concept of «psychological readiness» on different levels of analysis (individual, group, organization), different approaches to understanding readiness for organizational change are analyzed. There are described and compared in terms of strengths and weaknesses of diagnostic techniques readiness assessment applicable in the context of the study and implementation of organizational change, such as «Readiness to organizational change», «Organizational readiness for implementing change», «Organizational Change Questionnaire — Climate of Change, Processes, and Readiness», «Styles of response to changes» and others.
The «First steps» section includes two papers: «Components of burnout and coping strategies among call center operators» by E. Bochkareva and «Leadership behavior for business success: Differences across organizational (position) levels» by O. Vovna and A. Klimov.
In the «Conferences» section you can find information about upcoming international scientific and practical conferences on organizational psychology.
A review of the book by Frederik Lalu «Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness» and our traditional editorial note about the 20 most cited and 20 most recent articles on Work–Life Balance (WLB) is covered the issue