Background, moderators and consequences of marketing and market orientation on the competitiveness of cluster companies.
Perception of belonging and affiliation, influence of the manager's cognitive style, influential aspects in group decision making in the cluster, method of group decision making. Mimicry and managerial perceptions.
Study of organisational conflict and its effects on individuals and teams.
Second-tier and transversal clusters. Economic dynamisation of territories and their external markets.
Study of emotional regulation and its impact on the performance and well-being of workers.
To analyse the relationships between employability, job insecurity, labour market and psychological well-being of young people. To analyse processes and strategies for the integration of young people and their level of adjustment. To assess and optimise psychological resources for labour market integration-career adjustment.
The international entrepreneur. Strategic effectiveness in new companies. Organisational alternatives in bankruptcy environments. Business reorganisation and restructuring. Decline, crisis and turnaround. Second Chance Policies.
The main goal of this line of research is to analyse the characteristics of teenage lifestyles, exploring their psychosocial correlates, with the purpose of promoting healthy behaviours.
This line focuses on the study of the incorporation of human capital into organisations (the integration of young people into the labour market), the waste of human capital due to unemployment or over-qualification and strategies to improve the career development of individuals. These questions require basic, often interdisciplinary research, and at the same time are of great practical, personal and social relevance. Therefore, in our research we have set up observatories on young people's entry into the labour market and strategies for career development in the early stages of their careers. In this area we not only analyse processes related to employment, but also self-employment and entrepreneurial behaviour and initiatives.
Study of justice in organisations and its impact on the performance and well-being of workers.
It investigates the background and consequences of leadership in organisations and their units.
Legal and criminological analysis of the problem, with a special focus on crimes of sexual assault and abuse, as well as crimes related to child pornography.
Psychomotor aspects (motor skills) and their relation with psychosocial aspects in adolescents (e.g., self-concept) are analysed, analysing how both aspects interact.
Study of the issues, difficulties and solutions to the measurement of psychophysical aspects (quality, perception of pain, life satisfaction...) in people with some illness, in particular, those involving the alteration of psychological processes (e.g., dementias).
Study of psychosocial aspects in adolescents, in particular, the measurement of socialisation, aggressive behaviour and meaning of life, analysing its interrelation.
Higher education and mobility. Intercultural competences and well-being. Training in intercultural competences. Migration processes and personal balance. Cultural identity and acculturation processes. Language and cultural diversity. Cultural stereotypes and minorities. Gender and migration processes. Gender identities and “new environments”. Acculturation processes and cultural shock. Communication and intercultural mediation. Mobility and migration policies. ICT resources, communication and migration processes. Citizenship, participation and cultural diversity.
Deciding factors of multi-localisation, agglomerations, compatriot and activity clusters. Generation and development of international social capital. Networks and guanxi. Distance and localisation-entry strategy.
The goal is to study the relationships between the motivational processes that occur in school and sport contexts and the performance, well-being and health behaviours of adolescents, in order to optimise these processes and their effects by promoting positive environments.
It investigates the processes of formation of the climate and culture of the organisations, as well as the effects of the climate and culture on the functioning, results, and quality of working life of the organisations and their units.
Study of the effects of different configurations and characteristics of managers' personality and processes on the strategic decision-making of organizations.
Study of psychological processes related to physical activity behaviour and their association with mental well-being.
The study of group behaviour and work units makes a significant contribution to the psychosocial understanding of the structural and processual aspects of these units and the results they produce for their members, the unit itself and its constituents ("stakeholders"). Phenomena such as the climate and culture of these units, the leadership and interaction between their members and the various cognitive-affective-emotional phenomena at the group level are the main aspects investigated in this line of work.
This line of research explores the psychosocial processes, such as self-efficacy, confidence, self-concept, attributions, etc., that contribute to sport performance and satisfaction with the sport experience.
Prevention of psychosocial risks at work and work-related stress, prevention of accidents at work, improving the safety culture and climate in companies, improving the occupational health of workers, increasing the productivity of organisations and companies in the public and private sectors.
This line of work is a complementary development of the line described above. It stands out as a differentiated line because it deals with a very important technological field of organisational behavioural psychology, paying special attention to R&D for the analysis and prevention of psychosocial risks in organisations. Phenomena such as stress and psychosocial risk factors at work are investigated. Attention is also paid to various positive aspects of occupational health such as engagement, flow, and other related aspects. Finally, psychosocial interventions to prevent psychosocial risks at work are developed and evaluated.
New intervention strategies: motivational techniques and social support networks; change indicators and trajectories in the intervention process; effectiveness of intervention programmes with abusers developed in the community.
Study of the service climate and quality of service and its impact on user satisfaction and quality of life.
Development and validation of new attitude measures towards gender-based violence; changing attitudes towards gender-based violence in abusers.
Analysis of spatio-temporal models. To implement geographic information systems for the study of interorganisational relations: configuration, content, container and effect. Positive and negative externalities. Moderating and mediating factors. Knowledge transfer in clusters. Franchised relationships.
Analysis of the social structure, the processes of commodification, the shaping of identities in liquid modernity, processes of precariousness.
To analyse suppression and mediation effects in the context of Social Psychology.
Spatio-temporal epidemiology of child abuse and gender-based violence in the city of Valencia; socio-demographic correlates of the spatial distribution of violence in close relationships; neighbourhood characteristics and social attitudes geography in the city of Valencia.
Analysis of intercultural differences in the use of discipline practices; development of implicit measures of attitudes towards aggression in parent-child relationships; attitudes towards corporal punishment and child maltreatment risk.
To study virtual communities and networks as a mechanism for social innovation and a way of managing and sharing knowledge. On the one hand, organisational management strategies (facilitating conditions, existing rules for sharing or support from the community manager) are analysed, as well as structural factors (leadership and prestige of the community) and their influence on the results for users and professionals (sense of community, quality of knowledge, proactive participation, satisfaction, innovation...). In addition, the influence that technological (navigation, interactivity), personal (expectations of results, self-efficacy) and/or motivational (identification, reciprocity and confidence) factors may have on efficient functioning is also studied. To this end, the perceptions of users or professionals of virtual communities of practice in relation to the aforementioned variables are analysed. The results allow us to outline a set of guidelines oriented towards the efficient design and optimal management of these virtual communities.
This line of research pays special attention to the study of employee well-being and its relationship with performance and productivity at work. It therefore investigates two fundamental components of the relationship between people and organisations: the well-being of people at work in its different facets and also their effective performance that contributes to the results of the organisation. Special attention is paid to the synergies and antagonisms between well-being and performance and to the antecedents that affect these two aspects of organisational behaviour and their interactions. The research is conducted from a multilevel, longitudinal approach, paying special attention to the most relevant antecedents of the different combinations of well-being and performance.
The general objective of this line of research is to analyse the individual and collective well-being of the VTs, as well as the impact that the creation of subgroups and the development of the group's emotional management can have on both their well-being and their effectiveness. To do so, a longitudinal experimental study is developed, where four different experimental conditions are considered, as a result of the combination of the two central variables: creation or not of subgroups and training or not in emotional management. An interactive platform is used with different applications created ad-hoc for this purpose. All the groups are made up of four people and work over five working sessions solving tasks of an individual and collective nature. The results will contribute to the design of healthy virtual teams, with members with high well-being and at the same time effective. As well as the design of specific training programmes in emotional management for virtual collaborative contexts.
Studying people's behaviour at work in order to improve their quality of working life and productivity, by means of personnel selection, management and leadership training, coaching, mediation, conflict resolution, communication improvement, etc.
