Categories : Development Stress Wellness
Harnessing Job Stress to Build Personal Resilience
New research examines the relationship between different types of workplace stressors, resilience, and psychological strain.
Categories : Culture Health & Safety Stress Wellness Work-Life Balance
Stress in the Workplace Can Affect Our Social Networks
When you’re stressed out, you may find yourself relying on your friends for support. However, stress may be affecting the type of friends you choose to have.
Categories : Leadership Personality Stress1 Comment
How is Personality Linked to Charismatic Leadership in Different Work Conditions?
What predisposes some leaders to be more charismatic than others? A new study finds that certain traits and values are associated with more charismatic leadership—but only under certain work conditions. What is the secret recipe for inspiring people at work?
Categories : Human Resources Job Performance Personality Stress
How to Survive Toxic Work Relationships by Thriving
Do you have a co-worker with whom interacting is draining? Have you ever worked with someone who was consistently aggravating, challenging, or rude? These types of relationships plague employees and organizations, and are even related to decreased job performance. However, de-energizing relationships can be managed and remedied, specifically through something psychologists call “thriving.”
Categories : Health & Safety HR Policy Performance Stress
Treadmill Desks: Good for Employers and Employees
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?
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?
Categories : *Personnel Psychology Health & Safety Stress Turnover
Overflowing Stress: How Personal Stress Leads to Stress on the Job
It is difficult for employees to completely separate their home lives from their work lives. Stress that develops at home can actually spillover into the work environment, which leads to negative health outcomes for employees and negative organizational outcomes. A new study shows why organizations need to be on the lookout for employees who are experiencing stressful events in their personal lives.
Categories : Fairness Leadership Organizational Justice Stress
How Leadership Styles and Fairness Can Help Increase Job Performance
There are several factors that can impact the way an employee performs on the job. A recent study looks at how organizational fairness and leadership styles affect the relationship between work stress and job performance. In the end, researchers found that having the right balance of various leadership styles could serve to relieve employee stress and improve job performance exponentially.
Categories : *Academy of Management Journal Development Employee Satisfaction Job Performance Motivation Stress
Working Abroad- How to Help Employees Weather the Storm
Many employees are being sent on overseas assignments these days. Some start off working well in foreign cultures, but don’t maintain their adjustment levels over time, while others never perform as well as they did back home. A new study shows that initial motivation and psychological empowerment are crucial to the process, but interact with different kinds of stressors to affect performance in both positive and negative ways.
Can your personality affect how well you adapt to changes in the workplace?
In an ever-changing business world, the ability to adapt quickly to changes in the workplace is incredibly valuable to employers. A new study on “Personality and Adaptive Performance at Work” examines how emotional stability and ambition influence an employee’s ability to handle change. Ultimately, it found that personality was one of several key factors that determine how people adapt.