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D-Index
46
Citations
12268
World Ranking
3534
National Ranking
599

Overview

David Holman is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom and primarily works within the field of Psychology. Their research spans several subfields including Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Their work addresses a variety of topics, with notable emphasis on Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Attachment and Relationship Dynamics, and Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior. Additional areas of focus include Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications, Emotional Labor in Professions, Workaholism, burnout, and well-being, as well as Counseling Practices and Supervision.

David Holman has published research in multiple venues, with frequent contributions to the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Risk Analysis, Research Square, Academy of Management Proceedings, and Emotion.

Selected recent publications include:

  • Does job crafting affect employee outcomes via job characteristics? A meta-analytic test of a key job crafting mechanism (2023), Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
  • Transactions between Big-5 personality traits and job characteristics across 20 years (2021), Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
  • A longitudinal study of the turning points and trajectories of therapeutic relationship development in occupational and physical therapy (2021), BMC Health Services Research
  • Personality traits and emotion regulation: A targeted review and recommendations (2020), Emotion
  • Emotion Work: A Work Psychology Perspective (2020), Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior

Frequent co-authors collaborating with David Holman include Ayana Horton, Gail Hebson, David J. Hughes, Karen Niven, and Dieter Zapf.

Best Publications

  • Shopfloor innovation: Facilitating the suggestion and implementation of ideas

    Carolyn M. Axtell;D. J. Holman;K. L. Unsworth;T. D. Wall

  • Emotion regulation in customer service roles: testing a model of emotional labor.

    Peter Totterdell;David Holman

  • The Effects of Performance Monitoring on Emotional Labor and Well-Being in Call Centers

    David Holman;Claire Chissick;Peter Totterdell

  • A classification of controlled interpersonal affect regulation strategies.

    Karen Niven;Peter Totterdell;David Holman

  • Employee Well-being in Call Centres

    David Holman

  • Emotional labour and emotional exhaustion: Interpersonal and intrapersonal mechanisms

    David Martínez-Iñigo;Peter Totterdell;Carlos M. Alcover;David Holman

  • The Global Call Center Report: International Perspectives on Management and Employment

    David Holman;Rosemary Batt;Ursula Holtgrewe

  • Rethinking Kolb's Theory of Experiential Learning in Management Education The Contribution of Social Constructionism and Activity Theory

    David Holman;Karel Pavlica;Richard Thorpe

  • Job types and job quality in Europe

    David Holman

  • Emotion Regulation of Others and Self (EROS): The Development and Validation of a New Individual Difference Measure

    Karen Niven;Peter Totterdell;Christopher B. Stride;David Holman

  • The Globalization of Service Work: Comparative Institutional Perspectives on Call Centers Introduction to a Special Issue of the Industrial & Labor Relations Review

    Rosemary Batt;David Holman;Ursula Holtgrewe

  • Acceptability of workplace bullying: A comparative study on six continents

    Jacqueline L. Power;Céleste M. Brotheridge;John Blenkinsopp;Lynn Bowes-Sperry

  • Work design influences: A synthesis of multilevel factors that affect the design of jobs

    Sharon K. Parker;Anja Van den Broeck;David Holman

  • Affect networks: a structural analysis of the relationship between work ties and job-related affect.

    Peter Totterdell;Toby Wall;David Holman;Holly Diamond

  • Work characteristics, learning-related outcomes, and strain: a test of competing direct effects, mediated, and moderated models.

    David J. Holman;Toby D. Wall

  • Using repertory grids in management

    Mark Easterby‐Smith;Richard Thorpe;David Holman

  • Employee wellbeing in call centres

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  • Promoting innovation: A change study

    Carolyn Axtell;David Holman;Toby Wall

  • Social networkers: Measuring and examining individual differences in propensity to connect with others

    Peter Totterdell;David Holman;Amy Hukin

  • The New Workplace : A Guide to the Human Impact of Modern Working Practices

    David Holman;Toby D. Wall;Chris W. Clegg;Paul Sparrow

  • Job design and the employee innovation process: The mediating role of learning strategies.

    David Holman;Peter Totterdell;Carolyn Axtell;Chris Stride

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Totterdell
Peter Totterdell University of Sheffield
Toby D. Wall
Toby D. Wall University of Sheffield
Patrick Waterson
Patrick Waterson Loughborough University
Chris Stride
Chris Stride University of Sheffield
Olga Epitropaki
Olga Epitropaki Durham University
Chris W. Clegg
Chris W. Clegg University of Leeds
Norbert K. Semmer
Norbert K. Semmer University of Bern
Steven G. Rogelberg
Steven G. Rogelberg University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Warren Mansell
Warren Mansell University of Manchester

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