Year: 2009

Categories : *Academy of Management Organizational Performance TeamsTags :

Arranging the Top Dogs for Maximum Effectiveness

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Topic: Teams, Organizational Performance Publication: The Academy of Management Journal Article: Top management team functional background diversity and firm performance. Blogger: Benjamin Granger A key factor that can have a direct effect on an organization’s overall performance is the composition of its top managers.  Teams of top leaders are commonly referred to as top management teams (TMT), and researchers have investigated how various aspects of an organization’s TMT effect

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Categories : *Personnel Psychology DiversityTags :

Diversity just makes cent$

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Topic: Diversity Publication: Personnel Psychology Article: Mean racial-ethnic differences in employee sales performance:  The moderating role of diversity climate. Blogger: Larry Martinez Having lots of diversity in your organization seems like a generally good business principal; after all, almost every one of the top companies have mission statements that include diversity as one of their

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Categories : *The Wall Street Journal Compensation Motivation RewardsTags :

Pay-for-performance: Helping those that help themselves?

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Topic: Compensation, Motivation, Rewards Publication: The Wall Street Journal Article: When schools offer money as a motivator. Blogger: James Grand Long gone are the days when Mom and Dad would offer a few bucks for an “A” on your report card to buy some candy from the grocery store.  Now, the schools are starting to provide the incentives—and they aren’t just offering up

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Categories : *Organizational Research Methods Research Methodology

It’s the Simple Things in Life…Understanding the Grounded Theory Method in Management Research

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Topic: Research Methodology Publication: Organizational Research Methods Article: Grounded Theory Method in management research: Users’ perspectives. Blogger: James Grand Qualitative research is the “art” of taking real-time narratives or observations of human behavior/cognitions and systematically analyzing them for themes, theories and indicators of what is occurring in a given situation.  In truth, such data is collected all the time in organizations.

Categories : *Journal of Occupational & Organizational Psychology Stress Work-Life BalanceTags :

Rest, Relax and Be Merry…At Work!

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Topic: Stress, Work-Life Balance Publication: Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology Article: Staying vigorous until work is over: The role of trait vigor, day-specific work experiences and recovery. Blogger: Benjamin Granger After a long hard day of work, many of us get back home only to do more work!  After all that,

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Categories : *International Journal of Selection and Assessment Assessment SelectionTags :

When the Cat’s Away the Mice Will Cheat. Unless…

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Topic: Assessment, Selection Publication: International Journal of Selection and Assessment Article: Two step testing in employee selection: Is score inflation a problem? Blogger: Benjamin Granger Many organizations are moving from traditional proctored selection tests to unproctored web-based tests.  Why? Among other advantages, unproctored web-based selection tests are often cheaper (no need

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Categories : *Environment & Behavior Job Attitudes Stress Work EnvironmentTags :

Office Decorations…Keeping Males Calm?

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Topic: Job Attitudes, Stress, Work Environment Publication: Environment & Behavior Article:  Anger and Stress: The Role of Landscape Posters in an Office Setting Blogger: LitDigger Is there more to aesthetic beauty than, well, aesthetics?  Office employees may think they’re enjoying art for art’s sake, but the benefits of art may be more complex

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