Categories : *Industrial & Organizational Psychology
Corporate Social Responsibility Needs Leaders
Individual leaders are crucial to the success of overarching corporate social responsibility initiatives.
Categories : *Industrial & Organizational Psychology
Skills for Getting a Job and Having a Successful Career
What skills does a person need to land a first job and carve out a successful career? Researchers tells us the most important factors.
Categories : *Industrial & Organizational Psychology
Successful Negotiation Strategies: The Team Versus the Individual
In the modern global marketplace most successful companies are multi-national. How does that affect negotiating style? A new study suggests that different tactics are more effective based on the culture of the negotiators.
Categories : *Industrial & Organizational Psychology
Culture and Negotiation
Success in business negotiation is success in business. An invisible factor could be affecting how people react to your negotiation strategy. If you are negotiating across cultures, it’s possible you are missing an important dynamic: how your culture is perceived by the other negotiating party.
What Practitioners Need to Know about Personality Testing
Topic: Assessment, Personality, Selection Publication: Industrial and Organizational Psychology Article: Personality testing and Industrial Organizational Psychology: A productive exchange and some future directions. Blogger: Benjamin Granger In an overview of the current state of personality testing in organizations, Oswald and Hough (2008) take on several perspectives and present some important ideas for research and practice in the
The Intuition Strikes Back
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
Intuition vs. Science: The Battle Rages On!
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