Categories : *Journal of Applied Psychology
When Mental Detachment from Work Is a Must
Researchers demonstrate that employees benefit from the ability to mentally remove themselves from work while off the clock. Their organizations benefit too.
Categories : *Journal of Organizational Behavior
Employees and Management Can Meet Halfway to Redesign Jobs
Researchers discuss a certain kind of idiosyncratic deal that employees make with their employers, in this case to redesign certain job elements. What are the outcomes for employees?
Categories : *Journal of Occupational & Organizational Psychology
Employees Maximize Performance by Playing Hard and Resting Hard
Researchers investigate the importance of employee recovery while off the job, and explain how it can lead to increased productivity while on the job.
Categories : *Journal of Applied Psychology
The Importance of Fostering a Service Climate
Researchers discuss the important of fostering a service climate for employee who are engaged in customer service.
Categories : *Personnel Psychology *The Financial
Heavy Workloads Can Harm Employees
Researchers find that heavy workloads can negatively affect employees in multiple different ways.
Categories : *Journal of Vocational Behavior
Excessive Job Demands Can Harm Employees
Researchers explain why excessive job demands can be so harmful for employees.
Categories : *Applied Psychology: An International Review
Culture Matters When it Comes to Workplace Stress
Researchers identify cross-cultural differences in how employees respond to workplace autonomy or lack of autonomy.
Categories : *Journal of Applied Psychology
Does Workplace Stress Lead to Good or Bad Behavior?
Researchers investigate the different types of stressors to which employees are exposed, Which are the impacts on organizational citizenship behavior and counterproductive work behavior?
Categories : *Personnel Psychology Stress
Stressed at Work? Here’s a Drink on Me!
Topic: Stress Publication: Personnel Psychology (AUTUMN 2009) Article: Daily work stress and alcohol use: Testing the cross-level moderation effects of neuroticism and job involvement Authors: S. Liu, M. Wang, Y. Zhan, and J. Shi Reviewed By: Benjamin Granger Many employees (perhaps as many as 92.5 million in the U.S. alone)
The Researcher’s Advantage to Chilled-Out Survey Participants
Topic: Stress, Wellness Publication: Journal of Organizational and Occupational Psychology Article: Too stressed out to participate Examining the relation between stressors and survey response behavior. Blogger: LitDigger If you’re in the kind of work I’m in, your projects thrive off of survey response rates. Yes, that is only one element to a successful organizational study, BUT CLEARLY response rates are a big deal to research! You probably have read some articles on