Categories : Performance Teams
Team Building: Encouraging Your Team to Eat Together is a Recipe for Success
Prepare a meal together with your coworkers, and break down barriers as you’re breaking bread.
Categories : Leadership Performance Teams
Power Disparity on Teams: Now We Know When It Works
Power can be a hot commodity in the workplace, and because it’s so desirable, it’s not unusual for opportunistic people to snatch it all up.
Categories : Goals Job Performance Performance Personality Teams
Goal Orientation: Helping Team Performance or My Own Performance?
We are the few, the proud, the performance-prove goal oriented! True, we have a slightly cumbersome name, but don’t let that fool you. We seek to achieve, to demonstrate our mastery, and to make sure everyone knows how much better than you we are. But starting today, we are on your work team. Will we help your team achieve success, or will we be too caught up in competing with you for personal glory?
Categories : Diversity Teams Training Workplace Culture1 Comment
Workforce Diversity: Does Diversity Training Improve Creativity?
Companies talk all the time about the incredible value of diversity in driving innovation and creativity, yet the research tells us it’s not quite so clear-cut. Most companies already utilize some form of diversity training to try to get the most out of their diverse workforces, but even that is no guarantee of success. New research looks at the effectiveness of diversity training, and shows us the conditions in which it should—and shouldn’t—be used.
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 : *Journal of Applied Psychology Culture Performance Teams
Climate Uniformity: A New Concept with Important Organizational Outcomes
Organizational climate can be a tricky subject, especially when there are multiple distinct opinions about the quality of a workplace. So what happens when some employees feel organizational support and other employees don’t? Poor communication, heightened task-conflict, and poor performance can occur.
Categories : *Journal of Applied Psychology
Unjust Leadership May Lead to Team Cohesiveness
New research demonstrates that employees may work together more cohesively in the face of unjust leadership.
Categories : *Journal of Applied Psychology
How to Fix the Bad Relationships that Affect Team Performance
Researchers explore the negative effects of bad work relationships between team members and discuss ways to reduce the harmful outcomes.
Categories : *Journal of Applied Psychology Counter-Productive Work Behavior Discrimination Performance Teams
Is It Lonely At the Top? The Victimization of High Performers
High Performers are defined as the group of talented employees that typically increase both team and organizational performance. Past research has shown that High Performers are likely to be victimized in the workplace by other organizational members. A new study attempts to explain the victimization of High Performers by examining the role of envy and work group identification.
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.