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 : *Journal of Applied Psychology
When Does Drinking Lead to Employee Absenteeism?
Researchers explore the topic of employee drinking and absenteeism. They find that heavy drinking episodes have the largest effect on attendance at work.
Categories : *Business Horizons
Organizations Win By Providing Work-Life Balance
Researchers determine the best practices that organizations can use to support their employees and provide them with work-life balance.
Categories : *Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Process
Which Employees Are Protected From Burnout?
Researchers find that when employees believe that their work helps others, they may be less likely to suffer from emotional exhaustion or burnout.
Categories : Health & Safety
Keeping it Safe for Daylight Saving Time
Topic: Health & Safety Publication: Journal of Applied Psychology (SEP 2009) Article: Changing to Daylight Saving Time cuts into sleep and increases workplace injuries Authors: C.M. Barnes & D.T. Wagner Reviewed By: Benjamin Granger Although Daylight Saving Time was originally proposed to align the human sleep/wake cycle with the Earth’s rotation
Categories : *Journal of Vocational Behavior Unemployment Wellness
The Unemployment Blues may be More Serious than You Think!
Topic: Unemployment, Wellness Publication: Journal of Vocational Behavior Article: Unemployment impairs mental health: Meta-analyses. Author: K.I. Paul, K. Moser Featured by: Benjamin Granger Does unemployment CAUSE poor mental health? After all, isn’t it possible that poor mental health can cause unemployment? Seriously, what employer wants to hire a distressed, anxious, depressed employee with low self-esteem? In an attempt to arrive at a firm conclusion about whether unemployment
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
Categories : *Academy of Management Emotional Intelligence Wellness
Managing Grief in the Workplace
Topic: Emotional Intelligence, Wellness Publication: Academy of Management Article: Grief and the workplace. Blogger: Benjamin Granger To shed light on the issue of grief in the workplace, Mary Ann Hazen (2008) provided several suggestions for how managers and organizations can effectively respond to grieving employees. Several suggestions provided by Hazen (2008)