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
Don’t Stress About the Job Search…Oh Wait, Maybe You Should!
Topic: Staffing, Stress Publication: International Journal of Selection and Assessment Article: The joint role of locus of control and perceived financial need in job search. Blogger: Benjamin Granger Not surprisingly, one of the most important predictors of finding employment is the intensity with which one searches for a job (Remember mom saying, “Get off the couch and go look
Categories : *Journal of Business Ethics Stress Wellness Work Environment
Doing what Simon Says Regarding Safety
Topic: Stress, Wellness, Work Environments Publication: Journal of Business Ethics Article: Ethical climates and workplace safety behaviors: an empirical investigation. Blogger: LitDigger How do you know that you won’t trip on the telephone cord your coworker has stretched across the entryway of your cubicle? You don’t (until the inevitable happens). How do you know whether or not workplace safety behaviors are actually practiced in your organization? A study
Rest, Relax and Be Merry…At Work!
Topic: Stress, Work-Life Balance Publication: Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology Article: Staying vigorous until work is over: The role of trait vigor, day-specific work experiences and recovery. Blogger: Benjamin Granger After a long hard day of work, many of us get back home only to do more work! After all that,
Categories : *Environment & Behavior Job Attitudes Stress Work Environment
Office Decorations…Keeping Males Calm?
Topic: Job Attitudes, Stress, Work Environment Publication: Environment & Behavior Article: Anger and Stress: The Role of Landscape Posters in an Office Setting Blogger: LitDigger Is there more to aesthetic beauty than, well, aesthetics? Office employees may think they’re enjoying art for art’s sake, but the benefits of art may be more complex