Categories : *Journal of Applied Psychology
How Leaders Can Foster Trusting Workplace Relationships
Research finds that leaders play an important role in helping their followers develop trusting workplace relationships.
Categories : *Human Performance Culture Job Attitudes Job Performance
Taking a Hard Line on Employee Lateness Can Pay Off!
Topic: Culture, Job Attitudes, Job Performance Publication: Human Performance Article: Employee lateness behavior: the role of lateness climate and individuals lateness attitude. Blogger: Benjamin Granger Many organizations go to great lengths to curtail employee lateness (showing up tardy for work) and for good reason – it can cost organizations billions of dollars in productivity a year. In
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)
The Intuition Strikes Back
Topic: Assessment, Selection, Staffing Publication: Industrial and Org. Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice Article: Stubborn reliance on human nature in employee selection: statistical decision aids are evolutionarily novel. Blogger: Benjamin Granger In a previous blog titled “Intuition vs. Science: The Battle Rages On!”, I wrote on Highhouse’s (2008) article which called attention to the disparity between
Intuition vs. Science: The Battle Rages On!
Topic: Assessment, Selection, Staffing Publication: Industrial and Org. Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice Article: Stubborn reliance on intuition and subjectivity in employee selection. Blogger: Benjamin Granger How do typical organizations make hiring decisions? More specifically, do employers tend to prefer selection decision aids supported by research, or do they tend to prefer the use
Categories : *Administrative Science Quarterly Change Management Organizational Development Organizational Performance
Venture Capital…and I/O?
Topic: Change, Organizational Development, Organizational Performance Publication: Administrative Science Quarterly Article: Bringing the context back in: Settings and the search for syndicate partners in venture capital investment networks. Blogger: Rob Stilson All right, so let me get the “summary” part of this out of the way first. A recent study by Sorenson and Stuart
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Behavioral Targeting…Yuck!
Topic: Organizational Justice Publication: Business Week Article: Interactional justice: Communication criteria of fairness. Blogger: James Grand Business Week (September 8, 2008) reported that campaign managers from the McCain and Obama camps used a new advertising technique conspicuously termed “behavioral targeting” (how did that make it through PR?) in order to reach specific demographic sectors of the voting
Categories : *Journal of Applied Psychology
When Does the Public Support Striking Employees?
Research considers whether or not people support striking employees. What factors lead to support for a union on strike?
What’s the Big Deal with Emotional Intelligence Tests?
Topic: Emotional Intelligence, Selection Publication: Journal of Organizational Behavior Article: Faking emotional intelligence: Comparing response distortion on ability and trait based EI measures. Authors: A.L. Day, S.A. Carroll Reviewed by: Benjamin Granger Many believe that job applicants can fake personality tests. And we know that in some cases (e.g., unproctored, online) cheating on ability
Categories : *Academy of Management Diversity
Training Cats & Dogs to Work Together
Topic: Diversity Publication: Academy of Management Article: The influence of training focus and trainer characteristics on diversity training effectiveness. Blogger: LitDigger More and more organizations today are recognizing the value of having a diverse workforce, which means that many are throwing down the big bucks to support diversity initiatives.