Categories : *Business Horizons
Workplace Bullying May Be a Competition for Resources
Researchers find that workplace bullying is often done in response to an unsupportive work environment. What can organizations do in response?
Categories : *Human Performance
Are Arrogant Employees Actually Better?
Researchers develop a scale to measure workplace arrogance. They find that arrogant employees have lower self-esteem and actually perform worse than others.
Categories : *Journal of Applied Psychology
How Organizations Can Influence Employees to Behave Morally
Research finds that organizations and employee beliefs combine to influence how employees act at work.
Categories : *Academy of Management
Unethical Organizational Behavior Can Spread Quickly
Have you found yourself wondering how organizations can get away with corruption? How it can seemingly become an industry norm to engage in devious practices? New research may provide some answers. THE RESEARCH STUDY Research on the use of wage arrears—purposely delaying payment of workers’ earned wages—in Russia showed that
Categories : *Journal of Applied Psychology
Employees May Be More Dishonest Via Email
Researchers explore whether employees are more likely to lie via email versus other methods of communication. Implications for organizations are discussed.
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 : *Personnel Psychology *The Financial
The Motives Behind Counterproductive Work Behavior
Researchers find that employees have different reasons for engaging in counterproductive work behavior, which may lead to different outcomes.
Categories : *Academy of Management
Why It’s Important to Measure Behavior Fluctuations
Researchers use a new approach to measuring organizational citizenship behavior and counterproductive work behavior.
Categories : *Journal of Applied Psychology Organizational Justice Sexual Harassment Workplace Deviance
Identifying the Roots of Sexual Harassment
Topic: Organizational Justice,Sexual Harassment, Workplace Deviance Publication: Journal of Applied Psychology Article: Organization justice and men’s likelihood to sexually harass: The moderating role of sexism and personality. Author: F. Krings, S. Facchin Featured by: Benjamin Granger Researchers Krings and Facchin (2009) set out to uncover the reasons why men engage in sexual harassment at work. The authors
Categories : Culture Job Attitudes Workplace Deviance
Why High Self-Esteem Makes for Employees of Your Dreams
Topic: Culture, Job Attitudes, Workplace Deviance Publication: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Article: Organizational supports and organizational deviance: The mediating role of organization-based self-esteem. Author: D.L. Ferris, D.J. Brown, D. Heller Featured by: Benjamin Granger Organizational deviance such as employee theft (stealing, surfing the web), unexcused absences, and taking long breaks, cost organizations millions of dollars. Fortunately, research has found that supportive work environments make deviant behaviors less likely. But, it is unclear why supportive work