Categories : Engagement Leadership Performance Personality
Narcissistic Leaders Can Use Humility to Succeed
Research demonstrates that narcissism can be harnessed with humility, an unlikely combination that may lead to good leadership.
Categories : Culture Engagement Wellness Work-Life Balance
How to Stop Distracting Technology in the Workplace
Modern technology allows us to do some pretty amazing things. One of these things includes playing an engaging game of chess with someone on the opposite side of the planet while sitting at your work desk. Yes, technology can be distracting. But what can employers do about it? How can they make sure that employees focus on the work that they are supposed to be doing?
Categories : Decision Making Engagement Leadership Teams
How to Make Meetings Productive: The Role of Employee Participation
Whatever your field of work, you probably have to go to meetings. And no, they are not usually something to look forward to. It’s likely this is the case because they aren’t always productive or even necessary, yet we still continue to have them. So how can we use meetings to actually improve workplace outcomes, and leave employees feeling good? New research highlights the importance of employee participation.
Categories : Engagement Job Design Motivation Performance Potential
What is Gamification and How Can It Improve Organizational Effectiveness?
Playing games or going to work, which is more fun? Okay, that was an easy one, but what if we could make work seem a little like a game? That would probably make work a little more fun, right? 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.
Categories : *Journal of Applied Psychology Development Engagement Job Satisfaction Potential Professional Identity
How a Sense of Calling Can Affect Career Decisions
New research reveals that having a strong sense of ”calling” early on in life may help later in navigating the tension between choosing the career you want versus choosing one for financial stability and job security. When a sense of calling is stronger earlier in life, perceived ability plays a greater role than actual ability when it comes to actually pursuing a challenging career.
Flow at Work: Recovery Affects Whether Employees will “Be in the Zone”
Experiencing workplace flow is like “being in the zone” and it increases productivity and performance. This study found that feeling recovered impacted the experience of flow during the day, highlighting the importance of recovering from spending energy at work.
Categories : *Social Science Computer Review Counter-Productive Work Behavior Engagement Job Performance Measurement
Social Media at Work: Implications for Productivity
The use of social media at work is becoming increasingly common. A recent study done to develop a questionnaire for measuring good and bad social media behaviors revealed that, in addition to harmful social media behaviors being related to decreased performance, the beneficial behaviors seemed to have no significant relationship to performance. In short, no particular increase in performance output was detected.
Categories : *Personnel Psychology Engagement Job Performance Rewards Turnover
Are You Managing and Keeping Your Star Performers?
In the evolving workforce of the 21st century, there is a tendency for star performers to produce a disproportionate amount of output compared to the average performer. Despite this trend there has been very little shift in how we treat and manage star performers, often treating and paying them the same as average performers. The result is higher turnover among stars. How important are star performers and what can we do to better manage and retain them?
Categories : Engagement Leadership
Can Leaders Handle Challenge? The Role of Leadership Self-Efficacy
Only some leaders rise to meet challenges. What helps determine whether leaders sink or swim? Research provides some answers.
Categories : *Journal of Vocational Behavior Development Engagement Motivation
It’s Not All About the Money? The Role of Career Values in the Engagement of Recent College Graduates
Life after college can be intimidating. Finding work is often hard, and finding work that lives up to your hopes and dreams is even harder. It’s easy to become overwhelmed by all the choices you have to make when transitioning from college to working life. But a new study sheds light on which career values are most important to identify and use as guides when entering the working world.