Transparency Is a Must for Leaders At the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) conference last week, I had a conversation with an employment discrimination … Continue reading >Transparency Is a Must for Leaders
Take a Microbreak to Maintain Performance When I am working, I sometimes take a microbreak to maintain performance. These are very short pauses, often less than … Continue reading >Take a Microbreak to Maintain Performance
Psychological Reactance Explains Behavior Ever wonder why initiatives to change employee behavior achieve the opposite of what was intended? A well-meaning HR department decides … Continue reading >Psychological Reactance Explains Behavior
Help Students Overcome State-Orientation When students struggle in class, there is a tendency for faculty to attribute it to a lack of ability, motivation, … Continue reading >Help Students Overcome State-Orientation
Companies Have to Adapt to Poor Education A few weeks ago I was at a store and tried to pay for part of the item with a … Continue reading >Companies Have to Adapt to Poor Education
What Is Action Research? When it comes to organizational change, we often think in terms of single interventions. For example, if we have low … Continue reading >What Is Action Research?
Journals Must Bridge the Academic-Practice Gap There has been growing recognition among academics and practitioners alike that we need to do something to bridge the gap … Continue reading >Journals Must Bridge the Academic-Practice Gap
What Do Employee Engagement Questionnaires Measure? If you work for a large organization, there is a good chance that you have completed an employee engagement survey. … Continue reading >What Do Employee Engagement Questionnaires Measure?
Our Editors Must Practice Research Integrity Not long ago, a friend shared with me an editor’s decision letter from one of our top IO psychology/management journals. … Continue reading >Our Editors Must Practice Research Integrity
Multiverse Analysis Can Increase Research Integrity A couple of months ago I posted about questionable research practices on LinkedIn and Lorne Hartman asked me what I … Continue reading >Multiverse Analysis Can Increase Research Integrity
PARKing Is Another Questionable Research Practice One of the tools of the open science movement, designed to improve the integrity of research, is pre-registration. The idea … Continue reading >PARKing Is Another Questionable Research Practice
Young People Struggle to Adapt to the Workplace Recent articles in the media have noted how employers are disappointed in young hires. They talk about lack of preparation … Continue reading >Young People Struggle to Adapt to the Workplace
Support Neurodivergent Employees with High Expectations Leland Vittert wrote Born Lucky and did a News Nation special about how he overcame the limitations of autism. He … Continue reading >Support Neurodivergent Employees with High Expectations
Striving for High Standards of Research Integrity The past two weeks I wrote about a growing problem of questionable research practices in industrial-organizational psychology and management. Two … Continue reading >Striving for High Standards of Research Integrity
Questionable Research Practices in Top Management Journals In response to my blog article last week about how journal lists can promote questionable research practices, a friend sent … Continue reading >Questionable Research Practices in Top Management Journals
Bad Research with Journal Lists I was talking to a friend recently who said that at her business school, a requirement of tenure is that … Continue reading >Bad Research with Journal Lists
Avoid Fit-Hacking Your Statistical Model There is a well-known saying that if you torture the data long enough it will confess to anything. This reflects … Continue reading >Avoid Fit-Hacking Your Statistical Model
Technology Is Revolutionizing College Textbooks Last week was exciting for me. Now available is the 9th edition of my textbook Industrial and Organizational Psychology Research … Continue reading >Technology Is Revolutionizing College Textbooks
