Categories : *Journal of Applied Psychology
How Does Workplace Ambiguity Make Employees Act?
Workplace ambiguity can influence whether or not employees act in accordance with their personal values.
Categories : *Journal of Applied Psychology Climate
IO Psychology – At your service: Antecedents and consequences of emphasizing good service
A service climate examines employees’ perceptions of organizations’ emphasis on quality of service. There exists a lack of research explicating the antecedents, outcomes, and moderators of service climate; this study seeks to fill this void in the literature. The authors found support for service climate as a critical linkage between internal and external service parameters.
Categories : *Personnel Psychology Trust1 Comment
Employee see employee do
In this study, the authors examine how perceived supervisor embeddedness relates to employees’ own affect toward, attachment to, and behavior within the firm. Data were collected from employees at three time points across a 10-month period. Results supported the proposed model in three ways!
Categories : *Perspectives on Psychological Science Potential
Further predictors of academic performance
In this meta-analysis, the authors examined the construct validity and predictive validity of 10 study-skill constructs for college students. Study habit, skill, and attitude inventories and constructs were found to rival standardized tests and previous grades as predictors of academic performance, yielding substantial incremental validity in predicting academic performance.
Effects of Training & Coaching on Job Performance
The authors introduce the Strategies for Enhancing Performance Initiative to identify, test, and measure the most effective performance control practices in the workplace to both increase performance and to mitigate the negative effects of stress.
Categories : *Journal of Applied Psychology Performance
Performance Under Fire: Goal Orientation
In a study sampling students over the 15-week semester, the authors sought to identify perceptions of time pressure as a predictor of state goal orientations. Results revealed that perceptions of time pressure were negatively related to state mastery goal orientation and positively related to state performance-avoid goal orientation, and state goal orientations mediated the relationship between time pressure and performance.
Categories : *Journal of Applied Psychology1 Comment
Employee Turnover Can Mean Poor Organizational Performance
Research confirms that increased employee turnover is related to poor organizational performance across numerous studies
Categories : *Academy of Management Journal Change Management
Success through consistency
In this study, the authors examined how rhythms of change relate to firm performance. An explorative analysis revealed that corporate strategic changes occur in distinct rhythms; additionally, companies that change in regular rhythms outperform those that change irregularly.
Categories : *Personnel Psychology
Transformational Leadership Can Depend on the Followers
Research shows that the effectiveness of transformational leadership hinges on several key characteristics of the followers.
Categories : *Journal of Organizational Behavior Mentoring
I/O Psychology – Supporting your mentors benefits the protégés
Through surveys of employees engaged in ongoing mentoring relationship, the authors explored relationships among mentors’ perceived organizational support (POS), the extent of mentoring functions protégés received, and protégés’ POS. The authors also investigated the role of the mentor’s altruistic personality.