The increasingly aging population in most industrialized societies, coupled with the rather age-diverse current workforce makes discrimination against older employees a prevalent issue, especially in employment contexts. This renders research on ways for reducing this type of discrimination a particularly pressing concern. Drawing on theories of social identity and impression management, our re...

Impression management refers to an individual's deliberate efforts to cultivate a particular image. Sometimes impression management occurs in reaction to a face threatdan incident or behavior that could create an impression inconsistent with one's desired self-image. On social network sites (SNSs) such as Facebook, where content can be shared widely and is often persistent, studies have repeate...

Facebook was initially designed as a social tool representing a person‟s social life, yet today it functions as a platform synthesizing all facets of life, including the work context. Within the frame of the social capital theory, a survey was conducted measuring Facebook users‟ experience, perceptions of privacy and career impression management. Results found that higher Facebook experience wa...

Although job design has long been a central topic in the academic literature on organizations, theoretical perspectives on job design are rooted primarily in organizational psychology, and have only recently begun to draw from sociological theory. Moreover, extant sociological perspectives have focused largely on cross-cultural differences in the perception of job characteristics and the effect...