Employees with high intelligence may choke under the pressure of ambitious performance goals. How can organizations tailor their approach to better motivate these bright employees?
Why do some employees use performance pressure as a motivational tool to perform better, while others become stressed out and perform worse?
Researchers demonstrate the pitfalls of employees working longer or working faster to deal with time pressure.
Researchers demonstrate the positive effects of challenge stressors and negative effects of hindrance stressors in the workplace.
Researchers determine that stress can make employees avoid new social contacts or keep to themselves, leading to detrimental workplace outcomes.
Research demonstrates how a stressful work environment can play a role in how employees perceive their leaders.
Researchers demonstrate that employees can use thriving as a means to counteract the negative effects of bad workplace relationships.
Forget whistling while you work, how about running a whole entire marathon! That’s right, treadmill desks and cycling desks are now being sold as an alternative to the old-fashioned desks that didn’t really do anything all that interesting. So, do these things actually work? Can employees get physically fit without a loss of productivity? And how do the employees feel after using them?
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?
Researchers demonstrate how stressful situations at home can lead to detrimental outcomes at work for employee health.
