Do you want to excel at what you do, instead of just going through the motions? A new study on thriving at work finds that employees who are more hopeful, efficacious, resilient, optimistic, and have supportive supervisors are more likely to succeed, which in turn is related to greater self-development and work performance.
Research explains the concept of climate for inclusion, shows how to measure it, and explains why it is so beneficial to organizations.
Research reveals that powerful leaders can inhibit team communication and thereby jeopardize organizational effectiveness.
What skills does a person need to land a first job and carve out a successful career? Researchers tells us the most important factors.
Multitasking is the order of the day. Who excels at multitasking? New research on the dual dimensions of multitasking seeks to answer this question.
Harvard Business Review offers advice on how employees can clear up unnecessary work task and instead focus on what really matters.
Flex-schedules, work from home, modified hours, alternate office locations – lately the news is full of debates as to whether or not idiosyncratic deals and atypical work arrangements really, well, work. A recent study suggests that not only do such idiosyncratic deals, or i-deals, work – they actually improve job performance and inspire employee gratitude.
According to a new research study, a job candidate’s feelings about the selection testing process can affect subsequent job performance. Does this mean organizations need to redesign their selection tests?
Most people are able to learn the situational demands of different environments and apply them appropriately. The job selection process, with its involved interviews and situational tests, is a peculiar and specialized kind of environment. New research suggests that an under-examined element that may come into play, not only during this part of the hiring process, but also in job performance generally.
Organizations have spent decades trying to get a clear picture of how employees do what they do. Now highly sophisticated wearable monitoring devices are available to scrutinize employee behavior and generate a goldmine of data for analysis.
