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Will Organizational Stretch Goals Work?
Researchers explore whether organizations can succeed by using stretch goals, meaning goals that are difficult to obtain.
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What Causes the Dissolution of Strategic Alliances?
Researchers explore some of the factors that lead alliances between companies to break up.
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Customer Satisfaction Surveys May Introduce Bias Against Women and Minorities
Research shows that customer satisfaction survey responses tend to be biased against females and minorities. What can organizations do about this?
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Is Evidence-Based Management Actually Based on Evidence?
Researchers find that many previous studies on evidence-based management are not based on sound or rigorous research. What can I-O psychologists do to improve this situation?
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The Best Way to Assess Training Effectiveness
Researchers compare different methods of assessing the effectiveness of on-the-job training. They find that simply asking people whether training works may not work as well as people might think.
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Unethical Organizational Behavior Can Spread Quickly
Have you found yourself wondering how organizations can get away with corruption? How it can seemingly become an industry norm to engage in devious practices? New research may provide some answers. THE RESEARCH STUDY Research on the use of wage arrears—purposely delaying payment of workers’ earned wages—in Russia showed that
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How to Increase Use of Evidence-Based Management
This is a call to bridge the gap between science and practice in the field of industrial-organizational psychology.
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Should Organizations Monitor Employee Email?
Researchers discuss the pros and cons of employers monitoring employee emails.
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Why It’s Important to Measure Behavior Fluctuations
Researchers use a new approach to measuring organizational citizenship behavior and counterproductive work behavior.
Categories : *Academy of Management Conflict Gender
Misperceptions of Family-Work Conflict Maintain the Glass Ceiling
Topic: Conflict, Gender Publication: Academy of Management Journal (OCT 2009) Article: Bosses’ perceptions of family-work conflict and women’s promotability: Glass ceiling effects. Authors: J.M. Hoobler, S.J. Wayne, and G. Lemmon Reviewed By: Benjamin Granger Although women have made headway in cracking through the glass ceiling, this barrier is still very much