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Why Apply Human Characteristics to Organizations?
Research explores why people assign human characteristics to business organizations. How can leadership make good use of this strategy?
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Empathy May Help Leaders Succeed in Times of Crisis
Empathy is not a trait typically associated with CEOs or high level business leaders, but it could be advantageous in moderation.
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Happy Holidays from I/O at Work!
Thank you to all of our readers for our continued success in 2014, and we look forward to bringing you another year of fascinating content in 2015. Check back in early January to keep up with the latest-breaking I/O psychology research. -The I/O at Work Team
Categories : *Journal of Applied Psychology Culture Personality Teams Uncategorized
Teamwork- How Team Personality Influences Individual Behaviors
Teamwork is often an unavoidable necessity in most workplaces, and crucial for productivity and competitiveness. A new study examines how team personality traits such as extroversion and agreeableness ultimately influenced individuals’ helping behaviors. Groups who ranked high on extroversion seemed to adopt cooperative norms, which influenced individual behaviors, whereas agreeableness seemed to impact only individual helping.
How Power Distance Agreement Improves Performance in the Workplace
Every leader has a different style, from unilateral to more democratic decision-making. But a new study suggests that, as long as supervisors and employees agree on the Power Distance (or disparity in control) between them, it can have positive benefits on workplace performance.
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Beware of Failure to Track Progress on Goals
Researchers discuss the reasons for the Ostrich Problem, which occurs when employees refuse to track progress or listen to feedback.
Categories : *Industrial & Organizational Psychology - Perspectives on Science and Practice Human resource management Uncategorized Work-Life Balance
What’s Missing from the Research on Work-Family Balance?
Research shows that human resource management departments that allow employees more flexible options to support their work-family balance create an environment of superior job performance and lower turnover. So why are more and more employers turning away from family friendly policies? The article suggest that, in part, the fault lies with the type of research being done.
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Employee Behavior and Wearable Monitoring Devices
From a manager with eyes in the back of her head to the efficiency expert studying the factory floor, we’ve spend decades trying to get a clear picture of how employees do what they do. Now highly sophisticated wearable monitoring devices are available to scrutinize employee behavior and generate a goldmine of data for analysis. The result? Big brother may be hiding in your shirt collar.
Raise employee engagement with volunteerism
More and more companies are implementing volunteer programs. So, what effect do company-sponsored volunteerism programs have on the employees who participate? Is a strong culture of volunteerism key to employee engagement? In this study, learn how a strong volunteer program is a win for the NGO, a win for the employee who volunteers, and a win for the company that sponsors volunteer programs.
Keeping Your Business Model Afloat Before It Goes Under Water
In this article, Wessel and Christensen (2012) focus on how practitioners and business leaders can anticipate and address disruptions to their business models. The authors guide us in ways to maximize company response to disruptions.