Categories : *Human Performance
What Makes People Succeed on Virtual Teams?
Researchers begin constructing a competency model for virtual teams. How do necessary competencies differ from those needed for traditional face-to-face teams?
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Team Building: Encouraging Your Team to Eat Together is a Recipe for Success
Research shows that when employees eat together, it improves team performance. Why does this happen?
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Measuring Job Performance: Maximum Versus Typical
Researchers investigate the relationship between two different ways to measure job performance. What can organizations do with this information?
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Should We Test the Intelligence of Athletes?
Researchers consider whether intelligence relates to success in a sample of NFL football players.
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Are Arrogant Employees Actually Better?
Researchers develop a scale to measure workplace arrogance. They find that arrogant employees have lower self-esteem and actually perform worse than others.
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Being a Team Player Can Improve Your Own Performance
Researchers find that employees who make certain contributions to their teams may also see an improvement in their own individual job performance.
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How to Match Feedback to the Type of Performance Goal
Researchers investigate how the the type of feedback can affect whether employees are successful at achieving their work-related goals.
Categories : *Human Performance Faking Personality Assessment
What Makes a “Good Faker”? And Do We Want Them?
Topic: Faking, Personality Assessment Publication: Human PerformanceArticle: Individual differences in the ability to fake on personality measures. Author: P.H. Raymark, T.L. Tafero Featured by: Benjamin Granger One common criticism of personality testing is its susceptibility to faking. Faking (i.e., response distortion) occurs when job applicants intentionally misrepresent themselves (e.g., respond in ways that present themselves as more attractive
Categories : *Human Performance Feedback Training
Faded Feedback – Just a Fad?
Topic: Feedback, Training Publication: Human Performance Article: Faded versus increasing feedback, task variability trajectories, and transfer of training. Author: J.S. Goodman, R.E. Wood Featured by: Benjamin Granger In training situations, immediate, specific, and frequent feedback to the learner is often prescribed by the experts. However, there is evidence that this “high guidance” feedback may ultimately
Categories : *Human Performance Featured Job Performance Motivation
What to do about the Failure-Focused Employee
Topic: Job Performance, Motivation Publication: Human Performance Article: Failure avoidance motivation in a goal-setting situation. Author: S.R. Heimerdinger, V.B. Hinsz Featured by: Benjamin Granger Although it is known that employees who set specific and difficult goals tend to outperform those who set broad and relatively easy goals, different employees have differing motivational mindsets when they set their goals. Some employees are motivated to