The winners of the Best Paper Award are selected by the EJWOP editorial team and are announced every two years at the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology's congress.
The 2025 Best Paper Award winner is:
Cigdem Gedikli, Mariella Miraglia, Sara Connolly, Mark Bryan & David Watson
This award is given to papers that showcase the highest standards of excellence and significance in work and organisational psychology. This paper is recognised for:
- Its original theoretical contribution examines the reciprocal relationship between well-being and unemployment over time.
- Rigorous methods and statistics (longitudinal data and meta-analytic cross-lagged structural equation modelling), providing an important update to earlier meta-analyses based on cross-sectional studies; and
- Tackling an issue with wide relevance across disciplines and with significant societal impact.
The team of Editors and Associate Editors also recognised the following articles published in 2023 and 2024 as Highly Commended.
2023
Going beyond deep and surface acting: a bottom-up taxonomy of strategies used in response to emotional display rules
https://doi.org/10.1080/1359432X.2023.2221853
Merve Alabak, Ute Hülsheger, Jan Schepers, Elise K. Kalokerinos & Philippe Verduyn
How transformational leadership transforms followers’ affect and work engagement https://doi.org/10.1080/1359432X.2022.2161368
Benjamin Bader, Michael M. Gielnik & Ronald Bledow
Follower-leader HEXACO personality fit and follower work engagement
https://doi.org/10.1080/1359432X.2023.2250085
Kimberley Breevaart & Jan Luca Pletzer
Troubles on troubled minds: an intensive longitudinal diary study on the role of burnout in the resilience process following acute stressor exposure
https://doi.org/10.1080/1359432X.2022.2161369
Bram P.I. Fleuren, Annika Nübold, Sjir Uitdewilligen, Philippe Verduyn & Ute R. Hülsheger
Agile work practices: measurement and mechanisms https://doi.org/10.1080/1359432X.2022.2096439
Tom L. Junker, Arnold B. Bakker, Daantje Derks & Dylan Molenaar
Revisiting the Multidimensional Work Motivation Scale (MWMS) https://doi.org/10.1080/1359432X.2022.2116315
Sarah-Geneviève Trépanier, Clayton Peterson, Marylène Gagné, Claude Fernet, Julie Levesque-Côté & Joshua L. Howard
Is it bad because it is boring? Effects of idle time on employee outcomes https://doi.org/10.1080/1359432X.2023.2261661
Martin Zeschke & Hannes Zacher
Being “there and aware”: a meta-analysis of the literature on leader mindfulness https://doi.org/10.1080/1359432X.2022.2150170
Yuyang Zhou, Chen Wang & Hock-Peng Sin
2024
The necessity of job design for employee creativity and innovation: nothing happens without supervisor support
https://doi.org/10.1080/1359432X.2024.2348772
Tomislav Hernaus, Nikolina Dragičević & Sven Hauff
Temporal dynamics of shared leadership, team workload, and collective team member well-being: a daily diary study
https://doi.org/10.1080/1359432X.2023.2263200
Kai N. Klasmeier & Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock
Thriving at work: an investigation of the independent and joint effects of vitality and learning on employee health
https://doi.org/10.1080/1359432X.2022.2102485
Anne-Kathrin Kleine, Cort W. Rudolph, Antje Schmitt & Hannes Zacher
Effects of perceived illegitimacy of interrupting tasks on employees’ cognitive and affective experiences: the mediating role of stress appraisals https://doi.org/10.1080/1359432X.2024.2319904
Stacey L. Parker, Kateland Pahor, Anja Van den Broeck & Hannes Zacher
Extracting organizational culture from text: the development and validation of a theory-driven tool for digital data
https://doi.org/10.1080/1359432X.2024.2360225
Michael Schachner, M. Murat Ardag, Peter Holtz, Johannes Großer, Carina Hartz, Hester van Herk, Michael Bender, Klaus Boehnke & Henrik Dobewall