Categories : *Journal of Occupational Health Psychology
Employees Under Pressure: Work Faster or Work Longer?
Researchers demonstrate the pitfalls of employees working longer or working faster to deal with time pressure.
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 : *Personnel Psychology1 Comment
How Personality is Linked to Charismatic Leadership in Different Work Conditions?
Research demonstrates how a stressful work environment can play a role in how employees perceive their leaders.
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 : *Academy of Management Journal
Leadership Style Can Reduce Stress and Increase Job Performance
Research explains how transactional leadership and transformational leadership relate to employee stress and job performance.
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.