A I Ferreira
Biographic Data
| ID | 1500658 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A I Ferreira |
| GIVEN NAMES | A I |
| FAMILY NAME | Ferreira |
| SIGNATURE | FERREIRA A I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8280-1623 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Training and development pathways
Purpose This study aims to examine how shifting organizational dynamics and boundaryless career trajectories shape contemporary career paradigms, with a focus on protean careers. Grounded in social cognitive career theory, it investigates how protean career orientation, self-efficacy and self-perceived managerial competencies acquired through higher education influence subjective career success. Design/methodology/approach Using a two-wave longit…
Saudade
Emotions and paradoxes permeate organizational life. The former shape how individuals interpret, respond to, and cope with the tensions that arise from the latter. While paradox theory has extensively explored the handling of these tensions through cognitive and structural mechanisms, the emotional dimensions remain largely underexplored. We discuss saudade, a paradoxical, culturally grounded emotion in Portuguese, an evocative state of being cha…
Neurodevelopmental disorders
It is vital that working memory capacity can be assessed and trained with motivating resources, in a personalized way in children with neurodevelopmental disorders. This paper illustrates the possibility of a serious game, such as WorM, to assess and train children's working memory capacity. WorM was designed, developed and evaluated through three studies (Study 1: informative, Study 2: validation and Study 3: user studies). The first two qualita…
Social robots as health promoting agents
Social interaction matters to job search over the long haul
The Use of Robots in the Workplace
Workplace wellness programs constitute a preventive measure to help avoid healthcare costs for companies, with additional benefits for employee productivity and other organizational outcomes. Interventions using social robots may have some advantages over other conventional telemedicine applications, since they can deliver personalized feedback and counseling. This investigation focused on a health-promoting intervention within work environments,…
The different shades of co-working spaces
This study aims to contribute to the existing literature by providing a deeper understanding of the links between the multiple layers in organizational culture and the different Co-working characteristics. The research presented here develops a new taxonomy of Co-working spaces by integrating results from qualitative semi-structured interviews supported by previous theoretical and empirical research. We conducted interviews with 44 owners or foun…
Transformational leadership and team performance in sports teams
This study tests how transformational leadership fosters team performance through team cohesion and how that relationship is moderated by previous team performance and leadership consensus. We computed a moderated‐mediation model based on a sample of 690 professional players in 59 top professional teams in interactive team sports leagues (basketball, handball, roller hockey, and indoor football/soccer) in Spain. Our findings suggest that transfor…
Hide your sickness and put on a happy face”
The study of emotional labor and sickness presenteeism in the hotel industry is crucial due to the current context of economic uncertainty and to a climate of insecurity that forces employees to continue to show up for work even despite being sick. This research aimed to explore the effect of supervision distrust as an antecedent of surface acting on hotel service employees' emotional exhaustion levels. Sickness surface acting—the voluntary effor…
When Time Flies
Based on a model for the experience of timelessness in organisations, this study aims to empirically study the relationship between timelessness and creative process engagement. Research provides an integration of the current model of timelessness by including the dependent variable creative process engagement. With multilevel data, results suggested that timelessness mediated the indirect relationship between individual and work environment vari…
Exploring empathy in cyberbullying with serious games
Strategic thinking
The lack of instruments that evaluate strategic thinking and the fact that it is positively related to high levels of professional performance has led us to the development and validation of a questionnaire that allows us to measure it in an organizational context. This was done through three studies. First an exploratory study, in which 272 Human Resources (HR) professionals participated, allowed us to develop its items and analyze its psychomet…
Presenteeism and Productivity
The results highlight TSH's moderating role in decreasing employees' capacity to fulfill tasks when these individuals have high levels of glycemia and cortisol in their blood. These findings have practical and theoretical implications based on a fuller understanding of how biomarkers and hormones explain productivity despite presenteeism
University students' perceptions of campus climate, cyberbullying and cultural issues
This study investigated the influence of campus climate dimensions, namely newcomer adjustment and feelings of well-being on the tendency for victims of cyberbullying to become aggressors, and how cultural issues could influence students’ involvement in situations of cyberbullying. Participants included 979 Portuguese and Brazilian university students who responded to the Cyberbullying Inventory for College Students and the Institutional and Psyc…
Leader and Peer Ethical Behavior Influences on Job Embeddedness
Drawing on the social learning theory, the current research proposes that employees learn specific ethical behavior by observing others (leader and peers), thus influencing their job embeddedness. This study examined the mediating and moderating contextual variables in the relationship between ethical leadership and job embeddedness using a sample of 343 employees from 40 different companies. Results revealed that ethical leadership is related to…
The impact of anger on creative process engagement
Drawing on the cognitive persistence perspective of creativity and conservation of resources theory, we investigated how 2 social contexts (perceived relationship conflict and coworker support for creativity) influence the relationship between anger and creative process engagement (CPE) in organizations. We tested our hypotheses using 422 daily surveys from 98 participants, collected over 5 consecutive workdays. The results show that anger percei…
Consultant–Client Relationship and Knowledge Transfer in Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises Change Processes
Based on Szulanski's knowledge transfer model, this study examined how the communicational, motivational, and sharing of understanding variables influenced knowledge transfer and change processes in small- and medium-sized enterprises, particularly under projects developed by funded programs. The sample comprised 144 entrepreneurs, mostly male (65.3%) and mostly ages 35 to 45 years (40.3%), who filled an online questionnaire measuring the variabl…
Diferenças de cultura entre instituições de ensino superior público e privado
A presente investigação tem por objectivo verificar se existem diferenças de cultura entre duas instituições de ensino superior: uma do sector privado e outra do sector público. Procura-se verificar uma maior tendência das universidades privadas por uma abordagem no Modelo de Regulação por Mecanismos de Mercado (Correia, Amaral & Magalhães, 2002). Espera-se, neste sentido, que a instituição privada possua uma orientação de cultura mais vocacionad…
Construction of a Memory Battery for Computerized Administration, Using Item-Response Theory
In accordance with Item Response Theory, a computer memory battery with six tests was constructed for use in the Portuguese adult population. A factor analysis was conducted to assess the internal structure of the tests (N = 547 undergraduate students). According to the literature, several confirmatory factor models were evaluated. Results showed better fit of a model with two independent latent variables corresponding to verbal and non-verbal fa…
Optimismo em crianças e adolescentes
O objectivo deste trabalho visa a adaptação e validação da Escala Revista de Orientação para a Vida para Crianças e Adolescentes Portugueses. O presente estudo incidiu sobre um total de 3195 participantes do 5o e 7o anos de escolaridade. A análise de componentes principais encontrou dois factores, um ligado ao optimismo e outro que reflecte o pessimismo. Os resultados evidenciados na análise factorial confirmatória revelam um bom ajustamento da e…
The impact of anger on creative process engagement
Drawing on the cognitive persistence perspective of creativity and conservation of resources theory, we investigated how 2 social contexts (perceived relationship conflict and coworker support for creativity) influence the relationship between anger and creative process engagement (CPE) in organizations. We tested our hypotheses using 422 daily surveys from 98 participants, collected over 5 consecutive workdays. The results show that anger percei…
Hide your sickness and put on a happy face”
The study of emotional labor and sickness presenteeism in the hotel industry is crucial due to the current context of economic uncertainty and to a climate of insecurity that forces employees to continue to show up for work even despite being sick. This research aimed to explore the effect of supervision distrust as an antecedent of surface acting on hotel service employees' emotional exhaustion levels. Sickness surface acting—the voluntary effor…
University students' perceptions of campus climate, cyberbullying and cultural issues
This study investigated the influence of campus climate dimensions, namely newcomer adjustment and feelings of well-being on the tendency for victims of cyberbullying to become aggressors, and how cultural issues could influence students’ involvement in situations of cyberbullying. Participants included 979 Portuguese and Brazilian university students who responded to the Cyberbullying Inventory for College Students and the Institutional and Psyc…
Leader and Peer Ethical Behavior Influences on Job Embeddedness
Drawing on the social learning theory, the current research proposes that employees learn specific ethical behavior by observing others (leader and peers), thus influencing their job embeddedness. This study examined the mediating and moderating contextual variables in the relationship between ethical leadership and job embeddedness using a sample of 343 employees from 40 different companies. Results revealed that ethical leadership is related to…
Diferenças de cultura entre instituições de ensino superior público e privado
A presente investigação tem por objectivo verificar se existem diferenças de cultura entre duas instituições de ensino superior: uma do sector privado e outra do sector público. Procura-se verificar uma maior tendência das universidades privadas por uma abordagem no Modelo de Regulação por Mecanismos de Mercado (Correia, Amaral & Magalhães, 2002). Espera-se, neste sentido, que a instituição privada possua uma orientação de cultura mais vocacionad…
Optimismo em crianças e adolescentes
O objectivo deste trabalho visa a adaptação e validação da Escala Revista de Orientação para a Vida para Crianças e Adolescentes Portugueses. O presente estudo incidiu sobre um total de 3195 participantes do 5o e 7o anos de escolaridade. A análise de componentes principais encontrou dois factores, um ligado ao optimismo e outro que reflecte o pessimismo. Os resultados evidenciados na análise factorial confirmatória revelam um bom ajustamento da e…
Construction of a Memory Battery for Computerized Administration, Using Item-Response Theory
In accordance with Item Response Theory, a computer memory battery with six tests was constructed for use in the Portuguese adult population. A factor analysis was conducted to assess the internal structure of the tests (N = 547 undergraduate students). According to the literature, several confirmatory factor models were evaluated. Results showed better fit of a model with two independent latent variables corresponding to verbal and non-verbal fa…
Diferenças de cultura entre instituições de ensino superior público e privado
A presente investigação tem por objectivo verificar se existem diferenças de cultura entre duas instituições de ensino superior: uma do sector privado e outra do sector público. Procura-se verificar uma maior tendência das universidades privadas por uma abordagem no Modelo de Regulação por Mecanismos de Mercado (Correia, Amaral & Magalhães, 2002). Espera-se, neste sentido, que a instituição privada possua uma orientação de cultura mais vocacionad…
Consultant–Client Relationship and Knowledge Transfer in Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises Change Processes
Based on Szulanski's knowledge transfer model, this study examined how the communicational, motivational, and sharing of understanding variables influenced knowledge transfer and change processes in small- and medium-sized enterprises, particularly under projects developed by funded programs. The sample comprised 144 entrepreneurs, mostly male (65.3%) and mostly ages 35 to 45 years (40.3%), who filled an online questionnaire measuring the variabl…
Leader and Peer Ethical Behavior Influences on Job Embeddedness
Drawing on the social learning theory, the current research proposes that employees learn specific ethical behavior by observing others (leader and peers), thus influencing their job embeddedness. This study examined the mediating and moderating contextual variables in the relationship between ethical leadership and job embeddedness using a sample of 343 employees from 40 different companies. Results revealed that ethical leadership is related to…
The impact of anger on creative process engagement
Drawing on the cognitive persistence perspective of creativity and conservation of resources theory, we investigated how 2 social contexts (perceived relationship conflict and coworker support for creativity) influence the relationship between anger and creative process engagement (CPE) in organizations. We tested our hypotheses using 422 daily surveys from 98 participants, collected over 5 consecutive workdays. The results show that anger percei…
University students' perceptions of campus climate, cyberbullying and cultural issues
This study investigated the influence of campus climate dimensions, namely newcomer adjustment and feelings of well-being on the tendency for victims of cyberbullying to become aggressors, and how cultural issues could influence students’ involvement in situations of cyberbullying. Participants included 979 Portuguese and Brazilian university students who responded to the Cyberbullying Inventory for College Students and the Institutional and Psyc…
When Time Flies
Based on a model for the experience of timelessness in organisations, this study aims to empirically study the relationship between timelessness and creative process engagement. Research provides an integration of the current model of timelessness by including the dependent variable creative process engagement. With multilevel data, results suggested that timelessness mediated the indirect relationship between individual and work environment vari…
Exploring empathy in cyberbullying with serious games
Strategic thinking
The lack of instruments that evaluate strategic thinking and the fact that it is positively related to high levels of professional performance has led us to the development and validation of a questionnaire that allows us to measure it in an organizational context. This was done through three studies. First an exploratory study, in which 272 Human Resources (HR) professionals participated, allowed us to develop its items and analyze its psychomet…
Presenteeism and Productivity
The results highlight TSH's moderating role in decreasing employees' capacity to fulfill tasks when these individuals have high levels of glycemia and cortisol in their blood. These findings have practical and theoretical implications based on a fuller understanding of how biomarkers and hormones explain productivity despite presenteeism
Transformational leadership and team performance in sports teams
This study tests how transformational leadership fosters team performance through team cohesion and how that relationship is moderated by previous team performance and leadership consensus. We computed a moderated‐mediation model based on a sample of 690 professional players in 59 top professional teams in interactive team sports leagues (basketball, handball, roller hockey, and indoor football/soccer) in Spain. Our findings suggest that transfor…
Hide your sickness and put on a happy face”
The study of emotional labor and sickness presenteeism in the hotel industry is crucial due to the current context of economic uncertainty and to a climate of insecurity that forces employees to continue to show up for work even despite being sick. This research aimed to explore the effect of supervision distrust as an antecedent of surface acting on hotel service employees' emotional exhaustion levels. Sickness surface acting—the voluntary effor…
Social robots as health promoting agents
Social interaction matters to job search over the long haul
The Use of Robots in the Workplace
Workplace wellness programs constitute a preventive measure to help avoid healthcare costs for companies, with additional benefits for employee productivity and other organizational outcomes. Interventions using social robots may have some advantages over other conventional telemedicine applications, since they can deliver personalized feedback and counseling. This investigation focused on a health-promoting intervention within work environments,…
The different shades of co-working spaces
This study aims to contribute to the existing literature by providing a deeper understanding of the links between the multiple layers in organizational culture and the different Co-working characteristics. The research presented here develops a new taxonomy of Co-working spaces by integrating results from qualitative semi-structured interviews supported by previous theoretical and empirical research. We conducted interviews with 44 owners or foun…
Neurodevelopmental disorders
It is vital that working memory capacity can be assessed and trained with motivating resources, in a personalized way in children with neurodevelopmental disorders. This paper illustrates the possibility of a serious game, such as WorM, to assess and train children's working memory capacity. WorM was designed, developed and evaluated through three studies (Study 1: informative, Study 2: validation and Study 3: user studies). The first two qualita…
Training and development pathways
Purpose This study aims to examine how shifting organizational dynamics and boundaryless career trajectories shape contemporary career paradigms, with a focus on protean careers. Grounded in social cognitive career theory, it investigates how protean career orientation, self-efficacy and self-perceived managerial competencies acquired through higher education influence subjective career success. Design/methodology/approach Using a two-wave longit…
Saudade
Emotions and paradoxes permeate organizational life. The former shape how individuals interpret, respond to, and cope with the tensions that arise from the latter. While paradox theory has extensively explored the handling of these tensions through cognitive and structural mechanisms, the emotional dimensions remain largely underexplored. We discuss saudade, a paradoxical, culturally grounded emotion in Portuguese, an evocative state of being cha…
Psychology (15 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Political science (5 works) · Applied Psychology (4 works) · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior (4 works) · Knowledge management (4 works) · Mediation (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Absenteeism (3 works)