When Does Negative Feedback Improve Employee Creativity?
Researchers find that negative feedback can sometimes help improve employee creativity, but only certain circumstances. What should organizations do?
Researchers find that negative feedback can sometimes help improve employee creativity, but only certain circumstances. What should organizations do?
Research explores why people assign human characteristics to business organizations. How can leadership make good use of this strategy?
Empathy is not a trait typically associated with CEOs or high level business leaders, but it could be advantageous in moderation.
Is telecommuting an effective work arrangement? A new review of the existing research makes informed conclusions about telecommuting implications for different work outcomes, including job satisfaction, organizational commitment, stress, performance, wages, withdrawal behavior, and firm-level metrics. So what’s the bottom line? Does telecommuting make life better or worse?
Researchers investigate whether a period of unemployment can lead to personality changes, and whether gender makes a difference.
For some jobs, working from home is just not possible. This is especially true if you are an assembly line technician, postal worker, coal miner, or pirate. But in the new economy, many professions require little else but a computer and mouse. This is why telework—or working from home—is all the rage. But does it work? And is it good for employees?
Researchers investigate what happens in response to work-family conflict and what organizations can do to solve the problem.
What if organizations could make work seem a little like a game? This process is called gamification and researchers are discovering more about how we can use it to motivate employees to feel enthusiastic about going to work.
Researchers explain that workplace bullying is a form of institutional corruption that can ultimately undermine organizational success.
Researchers discuss the reasons for the Ostrich Problem, which occurs when employees refuse to track progress or listen to feedback.