Topic: Decision Making Publication: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Article: Do we listen to advice just because we paid for it? The impact of advice cost on its use. Blogger: Benjamin Granger Now, presumably, expensive advise is really good advice, right? I mean, if a consultant charges big bucks, then she
Topic: Organizational Justice Publication: Journal of Management Article: Perceptions of discrimination: A multiple needs model perspective. Blogger: James Grand I know the saying goes “Life isn’t always fair – sometimes you’re the bug and sometimes you’re the windshield.” But in truth, things aren’t usually that black and white (or life and death,
Topic: Hodge-Podge Publication: Journal of Business Communication Article: Are investors influenced by how earnings press releases are written? Blogger: Rob Stilson This article investigates whether investors are influenced by how an earnings press release is written. FYI: Earnings press releases are voluntary but still serve to inform investors on the current
Research finds that leaders play an important role in helping their followers develop trusting workplace relationships.
Topic: Culture, Job Attitudes, Job Performance Publication: Human Performance Article: Employee lateness behavior: the role of lateness climate and individuals lateness attitude. Blogger: Benjamin Granger Many organizations go to great lengths to curtail employee lateness (showing up tardy for work) and for good reason – it can cost organizations billions of dollars in productivity a year. In
Topic: Emotional Intelligence, Wellness Publication: Academy of Management Article: Grief and the workplace. Blogger: Benjamin Granger To shed light on the issue of grief in the workplace, Mary Ann Hazen (2008) provided several suggestions for how managers and organizations can effectively respond to grieving employees. Several suggestions provided by Hazen (2008)
Topic: Assessment, Selection, Staffing Publication: Industrial and Org. Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice Article: Stubborn reliance on human nature in employee selection: statistical decision aids are evolutionarily novel. Blogger: Benjamin Granger In a previous blog titled “Intuition vs. Science: The Battle Rages On!”, I wrote on Highhouse’s (2008) article which called attention to the disparity between
Topic: Assessment, Selection, Staffing Publication: Industrial and Org. Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice Article: Stubborn reliance on intuition and subjectivity in employee selection. Blogger: Benjamin Granger How do typical organizations make hiring decisions? More specifically, do employers tend to prefer selection decision aids supported by research, or do they tend to prefer the use
Topic: Change, Organizational Development, Organizational Performance Publication: Administrative Science Quarterly Article: Bringing the context back in: Settings and the search for syndicate partners in venture capital investment networks. Blogger: Rob Stilson All right, so let me get the “summary” part of this out of the way first. A recent study by Sorenson and Stuart
Topic: Organizational Justice Publication: Business Week Article: Interactional justice: Communication criteria of fairness. Blogger: James Grand Business Week (September 8, 2008) reported that campaign managers from the McCain and Obama camps used a new advertising technique conspicuously termed “behavioral targeting” (how did that make it through PR?) in order to reach specific demographic sectors of the voting
