Categories : *MIT Sloan Management Review
Changing the System Can Alleviate Challenges to Knowledge Workers
Experts successfully implement a job-redesign intervention that made a substantial positive impact on MIT and Harvard knowledge workers.
Categories : *Leadership Quarterly
How to Turn Ethical Leadership into Employee Success
Researchers uncover two key factors that help determine if ethical leadership will lead to employee success.
Categories : *Leadership Quarterly
How Can Leaders Effectively Manage Employees’ Negative Emotions?
Research shows that leaders can manage the negative emotions of their employees by adopting specific strategies.
Categories : *Journal of Applied Psychology
How Organizational Citizenship Behavior Can Be Good for You
Research demonstrates that performing organizational citizenship behavior at work leads to distinct advantages to the employees performing it, in addition to the organization.
Categories : *Journal of Applied Psychology
How to Reduce Emotional Exhaustion at Work
Researchers explore how employees can best manage their emotions when dealing with stressful customer interactions. What are implications for management?
Categories : Burnout HR Policy Human Resources Performance Wellness
Can Work Breaks Increase Employee Productivity?
We all like breaks: Lunch breaks, coffee breaks, water-cooler breaks, checking Facebook breaks, week in Maui breaks. But won’t lots of breaks hurt an organization’s bottom line? New research shows that the opposite may be true. Breaks may be beneficial for employee success.
Categories : Burnout Business Strategy Health & Safety Human Resources Organizational Performance Performance Talent Management Wellness Work-Life Balance
Leveraging Human Capital: Are Your Employees Getting Enough Sleep?
Who do you really want answering that important 3am phone call? Probably not your employee. New organizational theory proposes that constant connectedness or working irregular hours can lead to sleep deprivation. While pushing employees extra hard may seem to initially increase organizational performance, it is certainly no long-term winning strategy.
Categories : *Journal of Applied Psychology
Work Overload and Job Demands Lead to Lower Professional Standards
Research shows that overworked employees make compromises on professional standards. How can organizations avoid this problem?
Which Leadership Style Leads to Burnout?
Research explores how different leadership styles are associated with different emotional strategies. What are the implications?
Categories : Burnout Health & Safety HR Policy Stress Work-Life Balance
Email Overload and the Harmful Effects of Telepressure
You sit down at your desk to start the workday and log in to your work email. “YOU’VE GOT (187 pieces of) MAIL!” You might just have email overload. Besides for being extremely annoying, you might feel pressured to quickly respond to all of these emails. This pressure now has a word: telepressure. Does telepressure make you more productive at work, or can it lead to harmful outcomes ultimately affecting an organization’s bottom line?