• Engaging the age-diverse workforce: the interplay between personal and contextual resources 

      Kopperud, Karoline; Nerstad, Christina G. L.; Buch, Robert (Personnel Review;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Purpose: The purpose of this study was to advance research on work-related well-being and age by using a life-span approach to investigate the relationship between mastery goal orientation and work engagement during various ...
    • Goal orientation: A review of the miles traveled and the miles to go 

      Vandewalle, Don; Nerstad, Christina G. L.; Dysvik, Anders (Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior;Volume 6, 2019, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-11-16)
      Goal orientation, a theory that originated primarily in the educational and social psychology fields, has emerged in the past two decades as a prominent theory in organizational psychology and organizational behavior. We ...
    • Negative and Positive Synergies: On Employee Development Practices, Motivational Climate, and Employee Outcomes 

      Nerstad, Christina G. L.; Dysvik, Anders; Kuvaas, Bård; Buch, Robert (Human Resource Management;Volume 57, Issue 5, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-03-25)
      While previous studies have increased our knowledge of how employees’ perceptions of devel-opment practices influence employee outcomes, the role of potential contingencies in this rela-tionship remains relatively unexplored. ...
    • Perceived Motivational Climates and Employee Energy: The Mediating Role of Basic Psychological Needs 

      Nerstad, Christina G. L.; Caniëlis, Marjolein; Roberts, Glyn C.; Richardsen, Astrid Marie (Frontiers in Psychology;July 2020 | Volume 11 | Article 1509, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-07-10)
      This study draws on achievement goal theory and self-determination theory to examine the associations among two motivational climates (i.e., mastery and performance) and two indicators of energy at work (i.e., vigor and ...
    • Riding two horses at once: The combined roles of mastery and performance climates in implementing creative ideas 

      Škerlavaj, Miha; Černe, Matej; Dysvik, Anders; Nerstad, Christina G. L.; Su, Chunke (European Management Review;Volume 16, Issue 2, Summer 2019, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-09-11)
      Not all creative ideas end up being implemented. Drawing on micro‐innovation literature and achievement goal theory, we propose that the interplay of two types of work motivational climates (mastery and performance) moderates ...
    • What makes employees stay? Mastery climate, psychological need satisfaction and on-the-job embeddedness 

      Steindórsdóttir, Bryndís Dögg; Nerstad, Christina G. L.; Magnúsdóttir, Katrín Þ. (Nordic Psychology;Volume 73, 2021 - Issue 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-09-16)
      Job embeddedness was developed as a new perspective to explain employee retention, and recent research has demonstrated its predictive power of voluntary turnover. However, little is known about factors that might influence ...