Categories : *Human Performance
Team Building: Encouraging Your Team to Eat Together is a Recipe for Success
Research shows that when employees eat together, it improves team performance. Why does this happen?
Categories : *Journal of Applied Psychology
Power Disparity on Teams Only Works in One Situation
Researchers discover that power disparity on teams can work if the most powerful person is also the most competent person on the team.
Categories : *Journal of Applied Psychology
Will Competitive Employees Help Themselves or Help the Team?
Researchers consider when performance-minded employees use their competitiveness to either help themselves or help their team.
Categories : *Journal of Applied Psychology1 Comment
Does Diversity Training Improve Team Creativity?
Researchers explore the conditions that leads diversity training to be most successful, specifically in increasing team creativity.
Make Meetings More Productive by Encouraging Employee Participation
Researchers demonstrate how supporting employees and holding less frequent meetings can lead to increased employee participation.
Categories : *Journal of Applied Psychology
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
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
Team Personality Influences Individual Behavior
Researchers investigate the personality of teams and demonstrate how it can positively influence the behavior of individual team members.