NJOBM Scope
Focus & Scope
- Organizational Behavior and Workplace Dynamics: Research on individual, group, and organizational behavior, including employee attitudes, motivation, engagement, organizational citizenship, workplace deviance, interpersonal relationships, team dynamics, social capital, and behavioral factors influencing organizational effectiveness.
- Organizational Culture and Climate: Studies on organizational values, norms, beliefs, climate, cultural alignment, competing-values frameworks, culture change, psychological safety, and the influence of organizational culture on employee behavior and performance.
- Change Management and Organizational Transformation: Research on change processes, change agents, organizational transformation, restructuring, technology-driven change, resistance to change, organizational adaptation, knowledge transfer, and strategies for implementing sustainable organizational change.
- Leadership and Managerial Behavior: Studies on transformational, transactional, ethical, abusive, destructive, servant, and strategic leadership, managerial work, supervisory behavior, leader–member relationships, power, influence, and the effects of leadership on employee and organizational outcomes.
- Human Resource Management and Strategic HRM: Research on staffing, employee adjustment, workforce planning, strategic human resource management, international HRM, employee development, learning, organizational capability, and the relationship between HR practices and operational performance.
- Performance Management and Organizational Effectiveness: Studies on performance measurement, key performance indicators, dashboards, performance appraisal, benchmarking, business excellence, organizational effectiveness, productivity, reengineering, and systems for improving individual and organizational performance.
- Employee Engagement, Satisfaction, and Retention: Research on job satisfaction, employee engagement, commitment, intent to stay, turnover intentions, retention, employee voice, feedback systems, fairness, trust, rewards, and the organizational conditions that influence workforce stability.
- Workplace Stress, Health, and Employee Well-Being: Studies on occupational stress, burnout, work–family conflict, role ambiguity, psychological health, emotional intelligence, workplace well-being, flexible work, telecommuting, coping, resilience, and the relationship between health and productivity.
- Employee Safety and Occupational Behavior: Research on safety culture, safety climate, risk management, unsafe work practices, industrial accidents, injury prevention, safety commitment, supervisor and coworker safety, behavioral safety, and employee perceptions of workplace hazards.
- Training, Learning, and Behavioral Development: Studies on employee training, programmed instruction, behavioral modelling, computer-aided learning, self-efficacy, workplace learning, skill development, coaching, learning preferences, and technology-supported training interventions.
- Motivation, Rewards, and Incentive Systems: Research on monetary and non-monetary incentives, compensation, recognition, motivation, delegation, feedback, goal setting, reward systems, employee performance, and the behavioral consequences of incentive structures.
- Self-Management and Career Behavior: Studies on career self-management, self-efficacy, personal control, career adaptability, boundary management, employability, career satisfaction, vocational adjustment, proactive behavior, and self-management strategies in organizational settings.
- Applied Behavior Analysis in Organizations: Research applying behavioral principles to workplace performance, safety, training, motivation, productivity, quality improvement, employee behavior, and organizational interventions, including behavioral assessment and intervention evaluation.
- Behavioral Systems Analysis: Studies examining organizations as behavioral systems, including business-process redesign, enterprise modelling, system weaknesses, adaptive capacity, resilience, institutional change, and the interaction of behavioral and organizational processes.
- Organizational Structure and Design: Research on organizational structures, departmentalization, strategic alignment, flexibility, contingency theory, virtual organizations, business strategy, information technology capability, and structural arrangements that influence organizational performance.
- Teamwork, Collaboration, and Knowledge Sharing: Studies on group cohesion, interdisciplinary teams, team science, collaborative behavior, knowledge-sharing, social networks, virtual teams, collective learning, and the effects of team processes on organizational outcomes.
- Absenteeism, Turnover, and Withdrawal Behavior: Research on absenteeism, tardiness, turnover, burnout, withdrawal intentions, work–family conflict, customer incivility, supervisory support, organizational support, and interventions designed to reduce employee withdrawal.
- Technology and Digital Organizational Behavior: Studies on digital transformation, enterprise systems, AI-enabled management, remote work, virtual organizations, digital collaboration, technology assimilation, workplace analytics, and employee responses to emerging organizational technologies.
- Organizational Sustainability and Responsible Management: Research on corporate sustainability, CSR, green behavior, environmental management systems, organizational resilience, sustainable development, energy efficiency, responsible management, and the behavioral dimensions of sustainability initiatives.
- Emerging and Interdisciplinary Organizational Behavior Research: Research integrating organizational behavior with psychology, sociology, HRM, management science, information systems, entrepreneurship, sustainability, occupational health, and data analytics where organizational behavior or management forms the central contribution.
Keywords: Organizational Behavior, Organizational Culture, Change Management, Leadership, Human Resource Management, Performance Management, Employee Engagement, Workplace Well-Being, Applied Behavior Analysis, Organizational Effectiveness.
