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Hiring Internally Versus Externally: Is the Verdict In?
Researchers demonstrate advantages to hiring internal applicants versus external applicants when filling job openings.
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Can Pay-For-Performance Systems Motivate Low Performers?
Pay-for-performance systems reward high-performers, but how do they impact low-performers? Can these systems be designed to motivate all employees?
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Job Crafting Training Works for Older Employees
Finding the perfect job can seem like an impossible challenge, but creating the perfect job may be more feasible than you think.
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Being Yourself on Job Interviews Provides a Competitive Advantage
Researchers demonstrate that being yourself, or self-verification, can provide an edge to otherwise qualified candidates.
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Brief Exposure to Workplace Rudeness Can Hurt Job Performance
Researchers discover that early-morning exposure to workplace rudeness can hurt work performance throughout the day.
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The Best Strategies for Getting Hired with a Criminal Record
Research shows that job applicants with criminal records can increase potential job offers through apologies or justification, while avoiding excuses.
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How the Designated Rule-Breaker Impacts Team Performance
Researchers examine how performance is impacted when someone is designated to engage in unethical or illegal behavior on behalf of a team.
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Myth Debunked? Length of Selection Assessments and Retaining Applicants
New research shows that organizations should aim for valid applicant assessments and not worry about their length.
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The Way Disabilities Are Disclosed May Affect Employment Decisions
People with disabilities are often harmfully stereotyped, making it difficult for them to be hired.
Danger for High Performing Employees
New research explores how high performers are perceived by their peers and how those perceptions influence their behavior.
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Leadership White Paper Slideshare
We’ve explored the top articles within the realms of leadership research and have discovered the top 10 trends and insights for 2017.
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How Do Successful Culturally Diverse Virtual Teams Operate?
Leaders and employees are not always prepared to succeed on virtual teams, especially when they are composed of people from culturally diverse backgrounds.
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Do This for Better Communication on Virtual Teams
New research provides one simple change we can make that may influence our virtual team members to engage with our ideas instead of rejecting them outright.
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What Makes People Succeed on Virtual Teams?
Does virtual teamwork require a different set of competencies from those needed in traditional teamwork?
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When Should Leaders NOT Promote Interpersonal Justice?
What happens when leaders only say that justice is important but don’t exactly demonstrate it?
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How to Increase Trust in Top Leaders
New research has answers that have important implications for top leaders who want to make sure that their employees trust them.
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Our First Ever White Paper Is Here!
I/O at Work is excited to release our first ever white paper focused around the topic of Leadership Trends & Insights.
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Leaders Can Use These Nine Skills to Become Better Problem-Solvers
Training leaders to use these cognitive skills can help novice leaders overcome deficits in problem-solving and catch up to their experienced counterparts.
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Can Leadership Style Fix Machiavellian Employees?
Have you ever worked with someone who always seems to have selfish ulterior motives and tries to manipulate others using charm?
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How Leader Humility Boosts Team Performance
Leaders show humility by accepting employees’ ideas, pointing out their strengths, and being able to accurately assess their own strengths and weaknesses.
The Consequences of Abusive Supervision
New research demonstrates what abusive supervisions does to the mental state of employees, and shows how they behave in response.
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Empowering Leadership Leads to Success for Virtual Teams
New research finds that empowering leadership is an effective way of promoting collaborative behavior among geographically dispersed virtual teams.
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Shared Leadership Can Boost Team Performance
New research shows that promoting shared leadership is a great start to boosting team performance.
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How Childhood Poverty Limits Later Leader Emergence
Organizations benefit from having a diverse set of leaders. But are we unintentionally missing out on certain demographic of leaders?
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How to Get the Most out of Leadership Training
A new article suggests that corporate training is only effective if organizational systems and infrastructure are in place to support it.
How Can Multisource Feedback Improve Organizational Financial Performance?
Employees benefit from multisource feedback, which is when they learn about their strengths and areas for development from different perspectives.
Show Me the Money: The Influence of Money on Workplace Behavior
New research weighs in on this topic and shows that professional athletes may act differently when money is on the line.
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What Are the Hidden Pitfalls of Making Backup Plans?
A new study discovers that merely thinking about backup plans can lead to negative outcomes. What are they?
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What Does Sleep Have to Do With Charismatic Leadership?
New research shows that sleep may be beneficial to effectively being a charismatic leader.
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Do You Have the CEO Type Personality?
Everyone knows the CEO of their company, but do they also know all of the members of the top management teams?
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Do These Things to Create a Successful Diversity and Inclusion Strategy
Company cultures that value inclusiveness and diversity of background and perspective encourage employees to bring their whole selves to work.
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Moral Objection: What Happens When You Stand up to Wrongdoing?
New research helps us sort out the consequences to standing up to unethical behavior. How can we make it easier for everyone to do the right thing?
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A Snapshot of SIOP 2016 (Pt. 5) – SIOP Bonus Coverage
We’ve partnered with numerous SIOP presenters, and they’ve provided us with the nitty-gritty on some of the very best presentations, offered to you in a multi-part series.
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These Four Things Lead to Team Success
How can you set up your team for success? Read on to learn the critical environmental conditions for high-performance teaming.
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A Snapshot of SIOP 2016 (Pt. 4) – Diversity
We’ve partnered with numerous SIOP presenters, and they’ve provided us with the nitty-gritty on some of the very best presentations, offered to you in a multi-part series.
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How Managers Can Become Leaders
Management positions come with formal power and authority; yet, only some managers are truly viewed as leaders.
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A Snapshot of SIOP 2016 (Pt. 3) – Fairness
We’ve partnered with numerous SIOP presenters, and they’ve provided us with the nitty-gritty on some of the very best presentations, offered to you in a multi-part series.
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Delivering Bad News at Work: Is There a Good Way?
Layoffs, poor performance reports, and discipline meetings are not fun parts of work. Whether you are the giver or receiver of bad news, these moments can be trying.
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The Best Combination of Leadership and Organizational Culture
Should CEOs behave in ways that align with the organizational culture in place or do they add more value by emphasizing the things that are currently being overlooked.
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A Snapshot of SIOP 2016 (Pt. 2) – Business Success
We’ve partnered with numerous SIOP presenters, and they’ve provided us with the nitty-gritty on some of the very best presentations, offered to you in a multi-part series.
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The Dark Side of Pay-for-Performance Programs
Pay-for-performance incentive programs may increase competition, stress, conflict, and mistrust, and may even lead to good employees leaving the company.
A Snapshot of SIOP 2016 (Pt. 1) – Employee Success
We’ve partnered with numerous SIOP presenters, and they’ve provided us with the nitty-gritty on some of the very best presentations, offered to you in a multi-part series.
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How to Increase the Proportion of Women in Higher-Level Management Positions
Although the number of women in management roles is increasing, women are still underrepresented in higher-level management positions.
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When Do Proactive Employees Receive Higher Job Performance Ratings?
A recent study investigates how initiative taking and political skill affects evaluations of employees’ performance.
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Rapport Building on Job Interviews: How Much Does It Matter?
You are ready for the job interview with all the right answers to difficult questions. Yet strangely, the first order of business is to establish good rapport with the interviewer.
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How Can Companies Protect Their Reputations by Discouraging Employees’ Bad Behavior?
A company’s reputation is a valuable resource that can be tainted by employees’ poor or criminal behavior outside the workplace, called off-duty deviance.
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Does Rude Treatment by Interviewers Affect Job Searching Motivation?
Consider new research that explores whether an interviewer’s professional discourtesy can lower a job seeker’s motivation.
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How Does Individual Employee Recognition Help the Team?
New research explores the positive effects of individual recognition on team performance.
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How Can Leaders Effectively Manage Employees’ Negative Emotions?
Negative emotions are unfortunately found in most workplaces, and they can threaten the productivity or well-being of employees who have them.
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Employees with Autism Spectrum Disorders
People diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder may see their careers suffer due to stereotyping, stigmatizing, or misunderstandings about what their diagnosis actually means.
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Why is Workplace Ostracism so Dangerous?
Besides for the potential of workplace ostracism to make a person feel terrible, new research shows that it also may affect an organization’s bottom line.
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The Impact of Networking on Employee Turnover
New research suggests that whom you are networking with may affect whether or not you voluntarily leave your job.
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Harnessing Job Stress to Build Personal Resilience
New research examines the relationship between different types of workplace stressors, resilience, and psychological strain.
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How Organizational Citizenship Behavior Can Be Good for You
What happens if you do more than your job calls for? On one hand, you might be helping your organization achieve success. But what does it do for you?
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Do Serial Entrepreneurs Learn From Their Mistakes?
Are experienced entrepreneur looking to start a new business in a different industry more likely to achieve success in this new industry or their current industry?
Fairness During Recruitment Can Affect Job Offer Acceptance
New research explores how perceptions of fairness affect whether or not a candidate accepts a job offer.
The Pros and Cons of Being a Jerk at Work
New research explores whether being a jerk has distinct advantages in the business world.
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Discrimination Can Block Pathways into Organizations
Would professors respond differently to prospective doctoral students requests based on students’ gender and race?
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Stress in the Workplace Can Affect Our Social Networks
When you’re stressed out, you may find yourself relying on your friends for support. However, stress may be affecting the type of friends you choose to have.
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Stereotypes and Employment Discrimination Against Cancer Survivors
Cancer survivors may also experience stereotyping and discrimination in the workplace as a result of their health status.
How Childhood Social Class Influences CEO Risk Taking
The American Dream is often exemplified by “rags to riches” stories, where individuals achieve success despite humble family origins. But do these individuals forget their roots once they have ascended the social class ladder? A recent study suggests that social class origins continue to influence CEOs, even after they have moved from lower to higher social class standings.
Getting Credit for Speaking Up: Sub-Conscious Bias and Employee Voice
If you speak up at work, will people listen? Will they even acknowledge that you are trying to make a contribution?
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Layoffs Make You More Likely to Quit Your Next Job
Have you considered how employee layoffs impact the employees who experience this life-altering event?
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Team Building: Encouraging Your Team to Eat Together is a Recipe for Success
Prepare a meal together with your coworkers, and break down barriers as you’re breaking bread.
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Territorial Marking Can Impact Workplace Creativity
New research shows that territorial marking can impact creativity.
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Power Disparity on Teams: Now We Know When It Works
Power can be a hot commodity in the workplace, and because it’s so desirable, it’s not unusual for opportunistic people to snatch it all up.
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How Mindfulness Can Cool Employees with a Hot Temper
Although personal or professional slights are common, sometimes feeling wronged can lead people to retaliate in ways that are harmful to other employees or the organization.
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What Can We Learn from 10 Years of Virtual Team Research?
With the drastically improving state of technology, a work team can consist of employees working together from around the globe. But is this a good idea?
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Can Leadership or Climate Influence Underreporting of Workplace Accidents?
How can an organization reduce workplace accidents if they don’t even know when or how they happen?
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Can Mentoring Increase Organizational Citizenship Behavior?
Organizational citizenship behavior means going the extra mile, and it’s easy to see how it can benefit organizations. Getting people to do it? Well, that’s a trickier subject.
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How to Reduce Emotional Exhaustion at Work
Research has long explored strategies used by service industry employees to meet the emotionally demanding “display rules” necessary for their profession.
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Transformational Leadership: Good for You and Good for Them
New research shows that a certain kind of leadership behavior can have distinct positive benefits for leaders. Transformational leadership—there is more than meets the eye.
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Narcissistic Leaders Can Use Humility to Succeed
At first glance, narcissistic leaders don’t sound like the kind of people we’d want to work for. But have you considered that narcissism often comes with many character traits—like unwavering self-confidence—that are crucial to successful leadership? Is there a way to benefit from the “good” parts of narcissism without suffering from the “bad” parts? New research shows that a healthy dose of humility can go a long way for the narcissistic personality.
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Can Work Breaks Increase Employee Productivity?
We all like breaks: Lunch breaks, coffee breaks, water-cooler breaks, checking Facebook breaks, week in Maui breaks. But won’t lots of breaks hurt an organization’s bottom line? New research shows that the opposite may be true. Breaks may be beneficial for employee success.
What Science Tells Us About Telecommuting
Is telecommuting an effective work arrangement? A new review of the existing research makes informed conclusions about telecommuting implications for different work outcomes, including job satisfaction, organizational commitment, stress, performance, wages, withdrawal behavior, and firm-level metrics. So what’s the bottom line? Does telecommuting make life better or worse?
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How is Personality Linked to Charismatic Leadership in Different Work Conditions?
What predisposes some leaders to be more charismatic than others? A new study finds that certain traits and values are associated with more charismatic leadership—but only under certain work conditions. What is the secret recipe for inspiring people at work?
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Fashion Forward Talent Management
There are powerhouse companies behind the brands Louis Vuitton, Cartier and Gucci, and they are fierce contenders in the war for talent. These luxury mega-giants are proving that talent management is always in vogue. What do these companies do differently to ensure that their brands remain on top? What is their secret?
Why Would People Stigmatize Employees Who Volunteer?
How is volunteering perceived in the workplace? Contrary to expectations, employees who volunteer are viewed both positively and negatively depending on the perceived motives behind the volunteering. The results of a recent study show that volunteering for the “wrong reasons” results in negative judgment and potentially harmful behavior toward employee volunteers.
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Ethnic and Gender Discrimination When Reviewing Job Resumes
They say that recruiters look at job resumes for just a few seconds, but sometimes that’s all it takes for a job applicant to be categorized and judged accordingly. Some of these categorizations may not work out in the applicant’s favor, especially when stereotypes and group biases are in play. What situations are most prone to hiring discrimination, and what can organizations do to make sure they treat all applicants fairly?
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The Future of Human Resources: Create Value
Is HR useful for anything? Well, of course we think it is or we probably wouldn’t have this website. Yet there always seem to be a few skeptics out there. So what does HR have to do to finally and fully be acknowledged as a strategic partner in organizational success? The key, says a new article, is in creating value for the organization. The future of HR may actually be brighter than its past.
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The Psychology of Unemployment: Can Personality Change?
Unemployment is a scary sounding word. In today’s economy it seems typical to be “between jobs” for an extended amount of time. Have you ever considered the psychological effects of being out of work? New research shows that extended unemployment can even change someone’s personality.
The Role of HR as a Strategic Partner: Forming the G3
It’s no secret that HR leaders have struggled for some time to get a “seat at the table,” and to be seen as credible business partners. As the world becomes increasingly more complex, human capital continues to be one of the most often cited challenges facing the CEOs of today. A new article suggest that a different and more strategic role for the CHRO, or Chief Human Resources Officer, is necessary.
Leader Decision Making: Balancing Company Needs Versus Employee Needs
Leaders are often met with paradoxes. Sometimes they must choose between the needs of the organization and the needs of their employees. But a recent study shows that it might not be necessary to choose just one side. How can Eastern cultural values help leaders please everyone? Can leaders really satisfy company needs as well as employee needs?
Diversity Training: Are All Methods Equal?
The workforce is more diverse than it has ever been, with the number of female, racial or ethnic minority, and older employees continuously increasing. With the change in worker composition, organizations are becoming increasingly focused on diversity training. But, are all methods equal? A recent article shows that some methods may be more effective than others.
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When Does Job Security Affect Job Performance?
Job security has become a recurring theme after the economic downturn. It seems that nobody is completely immune to the threat of layoffs. Have you ever wondered what this does to the productivity and effectiveness of employees? What can employers do to make sure that their employees don’t become discouraged in the face of job insecurity, and instead maintain good job performance?
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The Recipe for Creating Proactive Employees
Good employees may do whatever is asked of them, but better employees don’t wait to be told: they assess the situation, take initiative, and make positive changes on their own. But where can we find these magical people? New research shows that certain types of people are more likely to be proactive, and there is also something employers can do to encourage proactive behavior in the workplace.
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Stigma-by-Association: How Follower Characteristics Influence Evaluation of Leaders
It can be difficult to evaluate leaders. Do we judge them based on their actions, the success of the individuals in the group, or the group outcomes? Or is there some other way that we determine their effectiveness? Shocking new research shows that people may evaluate leaders based on the racial makeup of the people they are leading.
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Emotional Leaders Can Affect Job Performance
How do leaders’ emotions affect employees’ work? A new study finds a connection between leaders’ anger and happiness displays and employees’ motivation to engage in voluntary work performance.
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Workplace Incivility: Why Nice Employees Finish First!
Do you remember being told to “play nice” as a child? Well, all those years of playing nice may just pay off in the workplace! A new study shows that individuals who engage in good behavior instead of workplace incivility, are more likely to be perceived as a leader, are more frequently sought out for advice, and have better job performance. As Mother Teresa said, “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
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How Employees Develop Passion For Work
Do you have passion for work? If not, do you at least know someone who does? Why does it seem that some people have passion for work and others merely go through the motions? New research shows that people have two different mindsets about how to achieve passion for their jobs. Organizations need to understand each mindset in order to assist both types of people in achieving passion and job satisfaction.
Working From Home: Telework Can Keep Employees Happy
For some jobs, working from home is just not possible. This is especially true if you are an assembly line technician, postal worker, coal miner, or pirate. But in the new economy, many professions require little else but a computer and mouse. This is why telework—or working from home—is all the rage. But does it work? And is it good for employees?
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How to Inspire Workplace Innovation: Increase Self-Efficacy
Where does workplace innovation come from? Innovative people, of course. But finding those people or predicting who those people will be is a near-impossible task for most organizations. So what can we do about this problem? New research shows that organizations can use a simple strategy to inspire all their employees to make innovative contributions.
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How to Stop Distracting Technology in the Workplace
Modern technology allows us to do some pretty amazing things. One of these things includes playing an engaging game of chess with someone on the opposite side of the planet while sitting at your work desk. Yes, technology can be distracting. But what can employers do about it? How can they make sure that employees focus on the work that they are supposed to be doing?
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Leveraging Human Capital: Are Your Employees Getting Enough Sleep?
Who do you really want answering that important 3am phone call? Probably not your employee. New organizational theory proposes that constant connectedness or working irregular hours can lead to sleep deprivation. While pushing employees extra hard may seem to initially increase organizational performance, it is certainly no long-term winning strategy.
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Work-Life Balance and Smartphones: Disaster in the Making?
Research shows that smartphone use disrupts the balance between work and home. A new study shows that supervisor and coworker expectations of smartphone use during non-work hours can harmfully affect work-life balance. The study also found that feeling engaged at work may weaken the relationship between smartphone use and work-home interference.
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The Future of HR: Bringing Human Resources into the 21st Century
The words “Human Resources” conjure up images of paperwork for some, but true HR professionals understand the value of effective human resource management. The time is ripe for HR leaders to step up to the plate. A new article by Peter Cappelli provides must-read tips for anyone looking to take a company’s people processes to the next level.
The Hidden Danger of Narcissistic Leaders
In recent memory, we’ve seen seemingly well-intentioned CEOs engage in unethical behavior that eventually leads to organizational ruin. Why do they do it? Don’t these executives stand to lose the most from organizational failure? After all, their lives and reputations are most intertwined with the company. Fortunately, a groundbreaking theory is beginning to make sense of this baffling situation.
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Goal Orientation: Helping Team Performance or My Own Performance?
We are the few, the proud, the performance-prove goal oriented! True, we have a slightly cumbersome name, but don’t let that fool you. We seek to achieve, to demonstrate our mastery, and to make sure everyone knows how much better than you we are. But starting today, we are on your work team. Will we help your team achieve success, or will we be too caught up in competing with you for personal glory?
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Workforce Diversity: Does Diversity Training Improve Creativity?
Companies talk all the time about the incredible value of diversity in driving innovation and creativity, yet the research tells us it’s not quite so clear-cut. Most companies already utilize some form of diversity training to try to get the most out of their diverse workforces, but even that is no guarantee of success. New research looks at the effectiveness of diversity training, and shows us the conditions in which it should—and shouldn’t—be used.
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How to Survive Toxic Work Relationships by Thriving
Do you have a co-worker with whom interacting is draining? Have you ever worked with someone who was consistently aggravating, challenging, or rude? These types of relationships plague employees and organizations, and are even related to decreased job performance. However, de-energizing relationships can be managed and remedied, specifically through something psychologists call “thriving.”