Roy Payne
Biographic Data
| ID | 3604082 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roy Payne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roy |
| FAMILY NAME | Payne |
| SIGNATURE | PAYNE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 107 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Britain's C rimean War Trophy Guns
Many of the numerous monumental cannon which adorn B ritish cities are C rimean War trophies: something little discussed in the historiography of the war. Focusing on the trophy cannon at L udlow, in the W elsh Marches, the article looks at both the national and the local scene. It describes first the A llied operation in Sevastopol to gather prize R ussian cannon and their removal to England. The utility of shipping the guns home and the uses to…
Multilevel approaches to stress management
When considering stress intervention strategies within organisational settings a variety of options are available to practitioners including job redesign, clarification of role relationships, developing coping skills, and employee assistance in terms of medical or psychotherapeutic treatment. It seems that many organisations focus on some but not all of the above when seeking to ameliorate the effects of exposure to stress. Most appear to address…
The nature and structure of workers' trust in management
This paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of the nature of trust at work. Use is made of the facet approach to generate a definitional framework of trust, and this is proposed as a theoretical basis for the analysis of the structural characteristics of trust. Hypotheses regarding the relations between the definitional framework and empirical observations were tested by applying Smallest Space Analysis to analyse data collected from…
Changing job structures
Madness in our method. A comment on Jackofsky and Slocum's paper, ‘A longitudinal study of climates’
Clustering Individuals as a Way of Dealing with Multiple Predictors in Occupational Stress Research
As the number and type of variables thought to affect the amount of stress experienced by an individual in the workplace increase, and as these effects are often found to be nonlinear and to interact with each other, the forms of statistical analyses employed present different costs and benefits. The use of cluster analysis as a preliminary means of categorizing individuals is described as the least artificial and empirically most accurate means …
On the importance of knowing the affective meaning of job demands
Theorizing about the effects of job demands on mental health, job satisfaction and performance can be enhanced by allowing for a more complicated view of job demands. This paper describes an empirical attempt aimed at investigating facets of job demands. It hypothesizes that (1) many individuals will agree that job demands of certain kinds and strengths, will be associated with either satisfaction, or dissatisfaction, (2) that there will be no ge…
A Longitudinal Study of the Psychological Well-Being of Unemployed Men and the Mediating Effect of Neuroticism
This paper proposes that the psychological experience of unemployed persons is determined by the stressfulness of the environment, but the relationships between the two is affected by certain conditioning variables, e.g., general health and social class, and by personal attributes such as their commitment to being employed and the tactics they use to cope with being unemployed. This model is tested empirically in a longitudinal study of 75 men wh…
A test of a model for explaining the affective experience of unemployed men
This paper uses a model drawn from the occupational stress literature to predict variations in the psychological experience of long‐term unemployed men. The model proposes that variations are mainly due to the stressfulness of the environment which is defined by the balance of problems, supports and opportunities existing in it. The model assumes, however, that the impact of the environment is modified by certain other variables such as social cl…
Social class and re‐employment
The effects of long‐term unemployment on attitudes to employment
This paper is concerned with whether long‐term unemployment (6‐24 months) affects people's attitudes to employment once they have found a new job. One hundred and forty men aged 25‐40 were asked whether they felt various aspects of employment (e.g. job security, pay) are more important to them as a result of being unemployed. The effects of mental well‐being when unemployed on attitudes to employment are explored. Unemployment is reported to have…
Proactive behaviour in unemployment
The widely accepted but little scrutinized explanatory framework for documented effects of unemployment, the deprivation hypothesis, is based on the claim that unemployment deprives one of, and employment imposes on one, experience within five crucial categories, quite apart from financial impoverishment. In this study we describe a qualitative empirical examination of 11 unemployed people who are experiencing material but not psychological depri…
Social class and psychological ill-health during unemployment
This study explores psychological health and the experience of being unemployed for between 6 and 11 months in two social class groups: unskilled and semi-skilled workers v. white-collar, managerial and professional workers. The respondents were British married men aged between 25 and 39. Information was obtained through interviews about financial and other problems, perceived threats associated with unemployment, anxiety, depression, general psy…
An interactionist approach to measuring anxiety at work
This paper describes the development of a measure of work anxiety. The construction of the measure was guided by the interactionist position that behaviour is determined by situations in interaction with individual responses. In developing the measure it was also possible to test two hypotheses relating to interactional theory and a third hypothesis about whether previous experience of situations leads them to be seen as more, or less, threatenin…
Whither stress research
This paper offers a way of identifying fruitful research avenues through the maze of possibilities existing in the field of occupational stress. The field appears to be at a crossroads in which key choices will have to be made in the 1980s. The choices involve: How should we study stress? Who do we want to study? And what problems should we study? Central methodological challenges include: highlighting the relative value of various methods with r…
Experiences of strain and pleasure among British adults
Role stress—a methodological trap
This study explores the notion that many existing studies which show moderate relationships between role variables and stress symptoms are doing so because of the operational similarity of independent and dependent variables. It was predicted that the removal of such an artefact by clearly separating the two sets of variables would result in a nil relationship. Matched ‘cases’ and ‘controls’ were compared in two different organizations. The indep…
Correlates of individual perceptions of organizational climate
The possible factors affecting the ways individuals perceive differently the climate of their employing organization are discussed, and the effects of three sets of possible determinants are examined empirically using data from a sample of 387 persons working at different levels in 14 organizations. The results tend to show that the perceptions of significant others may have greater influence than either variables reflecting the individual's posi…
Organization structure and sociometric nominations amongst line managers in three contrasted organizations
This study contrasts the interactions and influence choices amongst line managers in three organizations. The organizations were selected because of their contrasting formal structures (degree of bureaucratization, etc., after Pugh et al., 1968). The relations between the sociometric indicators and the various aspects of organization structure are explored across different sub‐parts of the line management systems. The overall results are that the…
The Hemphill Group Dimensions Description Questionnaire
Proactive behaviour in unemployment
The widely accepted but little scrutinized explanatory framework for documented effects of unemployment, the deprivation hypothesis, is based on the claim that unemployment deprives one of, and employment imposes on one, experience within five crucial categories, quite apart from financial impoverishment. In this study we describe a qualitative empirical examination of 11 unemployed people who are experiencing material but not psychological depri…
Social class and psychological ill-health during unemployment
This study explores psychological health and the experience of being unemployed for between 6 and 11 months in two social class groups: unskilled and semi-skilled workers v. white-collar, managerial and professional workers. The respondents were British married men aged between 25 and 39. Information was obtained through interviews about financial and other problems, perceived threats associated with unemployment, anxiety, depression, general psy…
A Longitudinal Study of the Psychological Well-Being of Unemployed Men and the Mediating Effect of Neuroticism
This paper proposes that the psychological experience of unemployed persons is determined by the stressfulness of the environment, but the relationships between the two is affected by certain conditioning variables, e.g., general health and social class, and by personal attributes such as their commitment to being employed and the tactics they use to cope with being unemployed. This model is tested empirically in a longitudinal study of 75 men wh…
Experiences of strain and pleasure among British adults
Whither stress research
This paper offers a way of identifying fruitful research avenues through the maze of possibilities existing in the field of occupational stress. The field appears to be at a crossroads in which key choices will have to be made in the 1980s. The choices involve: How should we study stress? Who do we want to study? And what problems should we study? Central methodological challenges include: highlighting the relative value of various methods with r…
Role stress—a methodological trap
This study explores the notion that many existing studies which show moderate relationships between role variables and stress symptoms are doing so because of the operational similarity of independent and dependent variables. It was predicted that the removal of such an artefact by clearly separating the two sets of variables would result in a nil relationship. Matched ‘cases’ and ‘controls’ were compared in two different organizations. The indep…
Social class and re‐employment
The effects of long‐term unemployment on attitudes to employment
This paper is concerned with whether long‐term unemployment (6‐24 months) affects people's attitudes to employment once they have found a new job. One hundred and forty men aged 25‐40 were asked whether they felt various aspects of employment (e.g. job security, pay) are more important to them as a result of being unemployed. The effects of mental well‐being when unemployed on attitudes to employment are explored. Unemployment is reported to have…
Multilevel approaches to stress management
When considering stress intervention strategies within organisational settings a variety of options are available to practitioners including job redesign, clarification of role relationships, developing coping skills, and employee assistance in terms of medical or psychotherapeutic treatment. It seems that many organisations focus on some but not all of the above when seeking to ameliorate the effects of exposure to stress. Most appear to address…
On the importance of knowing the affective meaning of job demands
Theorizing about the effects of job demands on mental health, job satisfaction and performance can be enhanced by allowing for a more complicated view of job demands. This paper describes an empirical attempt aimed at investigating facets of job demands. It hypothesizes that (1) many individuals will agree that job demands of certain kinds and strengths, will be associated with either satisfaction, or dissatisfaction, (2) that there will be no ge…
The Hemphill Group Dimensions Description Questionnaire
Madness in our method. A comment on Jackofsky and Slocum's paper, ‘A longitudinal study of climates’
Organization structure and sociometric nominations amongst line managers in three contrasted organizations
This study contrasts the interactions and influence choices amongst line managers in three organizations. The organizations were selected because of their contrasting formal structures (degree of bureaucratization, etc., after Pugh et al., 1968). The relations between the sociometric indicators and the various aspects of organization structure are explored across different sub‐parts of the line management systems. The overall results are that the…
The Hemphill Group Dimensions Description Questionnaire
Organization structure and sociometric nominations amongst line managers in three contrasted organizations
This study contrasts the interactions and influence choices amongst line managers in three organizations. The organizations were selected because of their contrasting formal structures (degree of bureaucratization, etc., after Pugh et al., 1968). The relations between the sociometric indicators and the various aspects of organization structure are explored across different sub‐parts of the line management systems. The overall results are that the…
Correlates of individual perceptions of organizational climate
The possible factors affecting the ways individuals perceive differently the climate of their employing organization are discussed, and the effects of three sets of possible determinants are examined empirically using data from a sample of 387 persons working at different levels in 14 organizations. The results tend to show that the perceptions of significant others may have greater influence than either variables reflecting the individual's posi…
Role stress—a methodological trap
This study explores the notion that many existing studies which show moderate relationships between role variables and stress symptoms are doing so because of the operational similarity of independent and dependent variables. It was predicted that the removal of such an artefact by clearly separating the two sets of variables would result in a nil relationship. Matched ‘cases’ and ‘controls’ were compared in two different organizations. The indep…
An interactionist approach to measuring anxiety at work
This paper describes the development of a measure of work anxiety. The construction of the measure was guided by the interactionist position that behaviour is determined by situations in interaction with individual responses. In developing the measure it was also possible to test two hypotheses relating to interactional theory and a third hypothesis about whether previous experience of situations leads them to be seen as more, or less, threatenin…
Whither stress research
This paper offers a way of identifying fruitful research avenues through the maze of possibilities existing in the field of occupational stress. The field appears to be at a crossroads in which key choices will have to be made in the 1980s. The choices involve: How should we study stress? Who do we want to study? And what problems should we study? Central methodological challenges include: highlighting the relative value of various methods with r…
Experiences of strain and pleasure among British adults
Proactive behaviour in unemployment
The widely accepted but little scrutinized explanatory framework for documented effects of unemployment, the deprivation hypothesis, is based on the claim that unemployment deprives one of, and employment imposes on one, experience within five crucial categories, quite apart from financial impoverishment. In this study we describe a qualitative empirical examination of 11 unemployed people who are experiencing material but not psychological depri…
Social class and psychological ill-health during unemployment
This study explores psychological health and the experience of being unemployed for between 6 and 11 months in two social class groups: unskilled and semi-skilled workers v. white-collar, managerial and professional workers. The respondents were British married men aged between 25 and 39. Information was obtained through interviews about financial and other problems, perceived threats associated with unemployment, anxiety, depression, general psy…
A test of a model for explaining the affective experience of unemployed men
This paper uses a model drawn from the occupational stress literature to predict variations in the psychological experience of long‐term unemployed men. The model proposes that variations are mainly due to the stressfulness of the environment which is defined by the balance of problems, supports and opportunities existing in it. The model assumes, however, that the impact of the environment is modified by certain other variables such as social cl…
Social class and re‐employment
The effects of long‐term unemployment on attitudes to employment
This paper is concerned with whether long‐term unemployment (6‐24 months) affects people's attitudes to employment once they have found a new job. One hundred and forty men aged 25‐40 were asked whether they felt various aspects of employment (e.g. job security, pay) are more important to them as a result of being unemployed. The effects of mental well‐being when unemployed on attitudes to employment are explored. Unemployment is reported to have…
Clustering Individuals as a Way of Dealing with Multiple Predictors in Occupational Stress Research
As the number and type of variables thought to affect the amount of stress experienced by an individual in the workplace increase, and as these effects are often found to be nonlinear and to interact with each other, the forms of statistical analyses employed present different costs and benefits. The use of cluster analysis as a preliminary means of categorizing individuals is described as the least artificial and empirically most accurate means …
On the importance of knowing the affective meaning of job demands
Theorizing about the effects of job demands on mental health, job satisfaction and performance can be enhanced by allowing for a more complicated view of job demands. This paper describes an empirical attempt aimed at investigating facets of job demands. It hypothesizes that (1) many individuals will agree that job demands of certain kinds and strengths, will be associated with either satisfaction, or dissatisfaction, (2) that there will be no ge…
A Longitudinal Study of the Psychological Well-Being of Unemployed Men and the Mediating Effect of Neuroticism
This paper proposes that the psychological experience of unemployed persons is determined by the stressfulness of the environment, but the relationships between the two is affected by certain conditioning variables, e.g., general health and social class, and by personal attributes such as their commitment to being employed and the tactics they use to cope with being unemployed. This model is tested empirically in a longitudinal study of 75 men wh…
Madness in our method. A comment on Jackofsky and Slocum's paper, ‘A longitudinal study of climates’
Changing job structures
The nature and structure of workers' trust in management
This paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of the nature of trust at work. Use is made of the facet approach to generate a definitional framework of trust, and this is proposed as a theoretical basis for the analysis of the structural characteristics of trust. Hypotheses regarding the relations between the definitional framework and empirical observations were tested by applying Smallest Space Analysis to analyse data collected from…
Multilevel approaches to stress management
When considering stress intervention strategies within organisational settings a variety of options are available to practitioners including job redesign, clarification of role relationships, developing coping skills, and employee assistance in terms of medical or psychotherapeutic treatment. It seems that many organisations focus on some but not all of the above when seeking to ameliorate the effects of exposure to stress. Most appear to address…
Britain's C rimean War Trophy Guns
Many of the numerous monumental cannon which adorn B ritish cities are C rimean War trophies: something little discussed in the historiography of the war. Focusing on the trophy cannon at L udlow, in the W elsh Marches, the article looks at both the national and the local scene. It describes first the A llied operation in Sevastopol to gather prize R ussian cannon and their removal to England. The utility of shipping the guns home and the uses to…
Psychology (18 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Statistics (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Economics (5 works)