Categories : *Journal of Applied Psychology
How Jobs Can Affect Moods
Researchers explore how characteristics of a person’s job can influence whether the person will be happy or sad.
Categories : *Journal of Management
The Importance of Idiosyncratic Deals at Work
What are idiosyncratic deals? Researchers devise a method of identifying and classifying these deals and then go on to explain why they are so important in organizations.
Categories : *Personnel Psychology
When Do Human Resource Practices Relate to Financial Performance?
Organizations might assume that intensive human resources initiatives help the company’s financial performance. Researchers demonstrate that this is not always the case.
Categories : *Industrial & Labor Relations Review
What Factors Make Employees More or Less Likely to Quit?
Researchers find four factors that make employees less likely to quit, and three factors that make them more likely to quit.
Categories : *Personnel Psychology
Uncommon Personality Traits and Career Performance
In this study, authors move beyond the “dark triad” to assess aberrant personality tendencies at work via an alternative methodology.
Categories : *Journal of Business Research1 Comment
How Can Organizations Win Back Customers After Mistakes?
When customers complain about service or products, retailers have different approaches in how they respond. How do these decisions by management actually influence customer behavior?
Categories : *Personnel Psychology
How to Align Jobs With Employees
Researchers discuss the importance of creating jobs that contain the values of the occupation as a whole.
Categories : *Journal of Vocational Behavior
Three Types of Organizational Commitment
Meyer, et al. (2002) conducted meta-analyses to investigate the relationship between the three different forms of commitment presented in Meyer and Allen’s (1991) Three Component Model (TCM). They also evaluated antecedents, consequences, and correlates presented in the TCM.
Categories : *Harvard Business Review
How to Beat Disruptions to Your Business Model
Harvard Business Review authors focus on how practitioners and business leaders can anticipate and address disruptions to their business models.
Categories : *Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Process
What Encourages Employee Whistleblowing?
Recent research finds that ethical behavior among employees is related to the tone set by ethical leaders and coworkers.