A professora Kelly Wilson,  da Purdue University, vai apresentar o seu trabalho de investigação. 

What happens when you bring your true personal self to work? Examining the benefits of integrated authenticity for employee outcomes

In the work-nonwork literature, research has examined employees’ work-family integration, which occurs when employees blur the boundaries between their work and family roles. Previous research has also examined dispositional authenticity or whether individuals typically express their true or core self during their daily activities. Integrating these concepts, the present research examines two components of work and nonwork authenticity, or what we refer to as integrated authenticity. First, we propose and examine integrated unbiased processing, a cognitive aspect of authenticity which is defined as being honest and objective about one’s personal values, desires and beliefs while at work. Second, we also propose and examine a behavioral dimension—integrated behavioral authenticity, which is defined as occurring when work behaviors are consistent with one’s personal or life values, preferences and beliefs. In a multi-survey field study of 235 full-time employees and 141 of their coworkers, we test a serial mediation model and find support for several of our proposed indirect relationships. For instance, integrated unbiased processing leads to integrated behavioral authenticity, which is associated with self-efficacy at work and subsequent coworker-rated voice and citizenship behaviors. In addition, such integrated authenticity is also indirectly associated with employee silence and task proficiency via both self-efficacy and self-doubt at work. These findings suggest that integrated authenticity holds several benefits for employees by increasing their self-efficacy, reducing their self-doubt, and impacting important voice and performance behaviors in the workplace.