Categories : *Journal of Organizational Behavior
The Dark Side of Procedural Justice: When Fairness Is Not Enough
Researchers demonstrate how workplace fairness may not always be enough to avoid harmful workplace outcomes.
Categories : *Journal of Organizational Behavior
What Type of Happy Employees Can Benefit Organizations?
Research considers different types of employee happiness and investigates which type is related to positive organizational outcomes.
Categories : *Journal of Organizational Behavior Creativity Culture
Culture and Creativity: Is It All About Social Context?
Workplace creativity has become increasingly valuable to employers. In the new study researchers found significant differences in how employees in Eastern and Western cultures function best creatively. They found that, due to factors such as power distance and collectivism, social context played a major role.
Thriving At Work Rather Than Just Going Through the Motions
Do you want to excel at what you do, instead of just going through the motions? A new study on thriving at work finds that employees who are more hopeful, efficacious, resilient, optimistic, and have supportive supervisors are more likely to succeed, which in turn is related to greater self-development and work performance.
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How to Design Effective Diversity Training Programs
Researchers explain how organizations can maximize the success of diversity training programs.
Categories : *Journal of Organizational Behavior Counter-Productive Work Behavior Feedback Leadership
Consequences of Abusive Supervision
Schools have adopted a zero-tolerance policy towards bullying. But what about bullying in the workplace? A new study on abusive supervision suggests that supervisor aggression can create emotional exhaustion among employees, ultimately leading to feedback avoidance.
Categories : *Journal of Organizational Behavior
Transformational Leadership is More Effective for Employees with Bad Moods
Research shows that the positive effects of transformational leadership are not the same for all employees.
Categories : *Journal of Organizational Behavior
Good Moods in the Workplace are Productive Up to a Certain Point
Researchers show that employees with good moods are more proactive, but this effect can backfire if moods are too good.
Categories : *Journal of Organizational Behavior Mentoring
I/O Psychology – Supporting your mentors benefits the protégés
Through surveys of employees engaged in ongoing mentoring relationship, the authors explored relationships among mentors’ perceived organizational support (POS), the extent of mentoring functions protégés received, and protégés’ POS. The authors also investigated the role of the mentor’s altruistic personality.
Categories : *Journal of Organizational Behavior
Employee Mentoring Substantially Benefits Both Mentor and Protégé
Mentoring programs are frequently used to benefit protégés, but researchers discover that these programs also have distinct benefits for the mentors themselves.