Do Financial Incentives Always Improve Performance?
New research addresses the debate about whether or not financial incentives are beneficial for performance on interesting tasks.
New research addresses the debate about whether or not financial incentives are beneficial for performance on interesting tasks.
Research explores how difficult jobs can ultimately lead to poor mental health and death, specifically when employees lack the resources for dealing with the high job demands.
Job developmental experiences are usually considered helpful for employee development, but they can sometimes lead to harmful outcomes.
Research finds that organizations can increase workplace achievement and employee engagement by reducing unnecessary tasks.
Employees who have intrinsic motivation on one task may experience reduced performance on other less interesting tasks.
To relate with coworkers, we can empathize with their feelings or try to understand how they see the world. Which approach works better?
Researchers find that perspective taking and empathic concern are distinct forms of interpersonal learning. Which is better in the workplace?
Experts successfully implement a job-redesign intervention that made a substantial positive impact on MIT and Harvard knowledge workers.
Finding the perfect job can seem like an impossible challenge, but creating the perfect job may be more feasible than you think.
What if organizations could make work seem a little like a game? This process is called gamification and researchers are discovering more about how we can use it to motivate employees to feel enthusiastic about going to work.