Categories : Employee Satisfaction Human Resources Trust Turnover
Layoffs Make You More Likely to Quit Your Next Job
Have you considered how employee layoffs impact the employees who experience this life-altering event?
When Does Job Security Affect Job Performance?
Job security has become a recurring theme after the economic downturn. It seems that nobody is completely immune to the threat of layoffs. Have you ever wondered what this does to the productivity and effectiveness of employees? What can employers do to make sure that their employees don’t become discouraged in the face of job insecurity, and instead maintain good job performance?
Categories : *Journal of Occupational & Organizational Psychology Job Performance Organizational Commitment Training Trust1 Comment
Using Organizational Socialization Tactics to Help Newcomers Adjust
New research shows that certain organizational socialization tactics can help reduce newcomer anxiety and foster a greater sense of competence on the job. When socialization tactics enable the building of trusting relationships, organizations can facilitate greater organizational commitment among newcomers.
Categories : *Journal of Applied Psychology Leadership Trust Work Environment
Problem Solving at Work: It’s Not What You Know, but WHO You Know
When it comes to problem solving at work, it doesn’t necessarily matter what you know as much as who you know. Employees who work directly with products or customers have first-hand experience with some of their company’s biggest issues. But many don’t have the influence or resources to solve those
Categories : *Personnel Psychology Trust1 Comment
Employee see employee do
In this study, the authors examine how perceived supervisor embeddedness relates to employees’ own affect toward, attachment to, and behavior within the firm. Data were collected from employees at three time points across a 10-month period. Results supported the proposed model in three ways!
Trading Voice for Service: The Impact of Perceived Voice on Organizational Commitment During Periods of Change
Topic: Change Management, Organizational Commitment, Potential, Trust
Publication: Human Resource Management (JAN 2011)
Article: The influence of perceived employee voice on organizational commitment: An exchange perspective
Authors: E. Farndale, J. Van Ruiten, C. Kelliher, and V. Hope-Hailey
Reviewed By: Allison B. Siminovsky
Categories : Counter-Productive Work Behavior Fairness Trust Workplace Deviance
Is Bad Behavior from an Employee the Consequence of an Unfulfilled Organizational Promise?
Topic: Counter-Productive Work Behavior, Fairness, Trust, Workplace Deviance
Publication: Journal of Business and Psychology (WINTER 2010)
Article: Psychological contracts and counterproductive work behaviors: employee responses to transactional and relational breach
Authors: J.M. Jensen, R.A. Opland, and A.M. Ryan
Reviewed By: Allison B. Siminovsky
Categories : *Academy of Management Conflict Trust
The Dissolution of Alliances: It’s Business, But It’s Also Social
Topic: Conflict, Trust
Publication: Academy of Management Journal
Article: Built to last but falling apart: Cohesion, friction, and withdrawl from interfirm alliances
Authors: H. R. Greve, J. A. C. Baum, H. Mitsuhashi, & T. J. Rowley
Reviewed By: Katie Bachman
Categories : *Journal of Applied Psychology Decision Making Fairness Trust
Workplace Fairness: Crucial for Powerful Supervisors
Topic: Decision Making, Fairness, Trust
Publication: Journal of Applied Psychology (May, 2010)
Article: The Role of Authority Power in Explaining Procedural Fairness Effects
Authors: M. van Dijke, D. De Cremer, D.M. Mayer
Reviewed By: Ben Sher
Categories : *Journal of Applied Psychology Teams Trust
The Propensity to Trust
Topic: Trust, Teams Publication: Journal of Applied Psychology Article: Why do we trust? Moving beyond individual to dyadic perceptions Authors: M. Yakovleva, R.R., Reilly, and R. Werko Reviewed By: Benjamin Granger Trust among employees is a prerequisite to good teamwork. After all, if employees don’t trust in each other, how