Organizational Psychology

We present our journal’s new edition Issue No. 1, 2023.
The «Research in Organizational Psychology» section is represented by four articles. An article bya large team of Moscow authors led by S. Russkikh is devoted to identifying organizational factors that affect the development of burnout syndrome in oncologists based on the assessment and comparative analysis of the severity of this syndrome in two groups of oncologists providing medical care on anoutpatient basis and in hospitals of medical organizations. The study of the ratio of the effectiveness of production groups and the informal subgroups existing in them was the goal of the study presentedin the article by A. Sidorenkov and W. Stroh. The study of Turkish authors B. Üzüm and O. Özkan was aimed at determining the influence of responsible leadership on Machiavellianism and «the tendency to imitate deviant organizational behavior.» Relationship of ethical leadership, satisfaction of employees with work and their involvement in work has become the subject of research by a team of authors from Indonesia, headed by R. Ramlawati.
Under the heading «Organizational psychology in practice» you will find an article by a team of authors from both Russian capitals led by S. Manichev, which describes in detail the psychometric development of the Russian version of the Job Crafting Scale.
The theme of burnout sounds in the next two sections of this issue. An article by St. Petersburgauthors headed by O. Gofman, which presents the results of a theoretical analysis of the features ofthe professional activity of specialists in the field of information technology, which increase the risk of developing burnout syndrome in them.
And the «First Steps» section is opened by the article by I. Bulgakov, whose research focus was onthe relationship between the burnout of employees of Russian organizations and their satisfaction witht heir close interpersonal relationships in marriage (registered or not). The second article in this columnis devoted to finding an answer to the question of how organizational socialization affects the sensitivity to equity and proactive behavior. The article is presented by Turkish authors S. Çakir and Ö. Işcan.
In the section «Organizational psychology in dialogues and discussions» you will find two articles. In one of them, the authors V. Tolochek and A. Mashkova, using the example of studying the competencies, personality traits and characteristics of business communication styles of low-leveland middle-level managers, discuss «open questions» (difficulties, problems, inconsistency of analyticaland integrative approaches), new approaches and methods for solving scientific and applied problems are proposed. The second article of an international team of authors from Malaysia and Pakistan is devoted to finding an answer to the question, when do employees become agents of change? The focus of researchers is the deployment of a mechanism that promotes behavior that supports organizational change.
The section «Conferences» contains an information letter about the upcoming XIV All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference with international participation «ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY:PEOPLE AND RISKS», which will be held in Saratov on April 27-28, 2023.
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