Categories : *Journal of Applied Psychology
Dealing With Attachment Issues in the Workplace
Researchers consider different types of personality in the workplace through the lens of psychological attachment theory.
Categories : *Journal of Vocational Behavior
Which Employees Are More Likely to Change Careers?
Researchers explore the factors that predict whether someone will change careers. What are the organizational implications?
Categories : *Journal of Applied Psychology
Employees May Have Mixed Feelings Toward Change
Researchers investigate employee attitudes toward organizational change. They find that certain people and certain situations are more likely to leave employees with mixed feelings.
Categories : *Human Performance
Are Arrogant Employees Actually Better?
Researchers develop a scale to measure workplace arrogance. They find that arrogant employees have lower self-esteem and actually perform worse than others.
Categories : *Journal of Applied Psychology
Employee Differences in Faking Positive Emotions
Researchers find that employees differ in their ability to fake positive emotions on the job. What does this mean for organizations that require this of employees?
Categories : *Journal of Applied Psychology
Goal-Oriented Leadership May Not Work for All Employees
Goal-oriented leadership has a clear upside, but may not work as well for employees who have lower levels of emotional stability.
Categories : *Personnel Psychology
Do Narcissistic People Make Effective Leaders?
There appears to be similarity between characteristics of narcissists and effective leaders. But could there actually be a difference between the two?
Categories : *Journal of Applied Psychology
How Letters of Recommendation Can Hurt Female Job Candidates
Researchers discover that “helping” terms typically used to praise females in letters of recommendation may actually be making them appear less qualified.
Categories : *Journal of Applied Psychology
The Importance of Locus of Control in the Workplace
Researchers explain the concept of work locus of control and demonstrate its relationship with workplace effectiveness.
Categories : *International Journal of Selection and Assessment
Maximizing the Predictive Power of Personality Tests
Although measures of personality are fairly common in employee selection and assessment contexts, research suggests that measures of various personality characteristics tend to be less predictive of job performance than other common selection tests (e.g., cognitive ability tests, technical work sample tests). Typically, items on personality measures ask job applicants/employees