Categories: Cyber Behavior – Posted on May 22, 2023May 22, 2023 AI Content Generators Will Not Replace People We have all heard the hype that the new AI content generators are going to put artists and writers out … Continue reading >AI Content Generators Will Not Replace People
Categories: Cyber Behavior – Posted on May 15, 2023May 15, 2023 Is Cyberloafing Good or Bad? A few months ago I was invited to write a commentary on a paper about cyberloafing. Vivien Lim and Thompson … Continue reading >Is Cyberloafing Good or Bad?
Categories: Mental Health – Posted on May 9, 2023May 9, 2023 What Is Workplace Mental Health? May is Mental Health Awareness month in the U.S. which reminds us that we should pay attention to the mental … Continue reading >What Is Workplace Mental Health?
Categories: HR Issues – Posted on April 25, 2023April 25, 2023 What Does KSAO Stand for? There is no human resource (HR) management concept that is more important than the KSAO. Graduate students in my field … Continue reading >What Does KSAO Stand for?
Categories: Mental Health – Posted on April 16, 2023April 16, 2023 Why Workplace Mental Health Matters Work can be a dangerous place. Depending on the industry there are many ways in which people can be injured. … Continue reading >Why Workplace Mental Health Matters
Categories: Career and Professional Issues – Posted on April 10, 2023April 10, 2023 Conflict of Interest in Peer Review Last week I shared my ethical concerns about the harm produced by our journal peer review system in the organizational … Continue reading >Conflict of Interest in Peer Review
Categories: Career and Professional Issues – Posted on April 2, 2023April 2, 2023 The Ethics of Academic Peer Review In 1974 I had my first experience with submitting to a major academic peer reviewed journal in my field. It … Continue reading >The Ethics of Academic Peer Review
Categories: Job Satisfaction, Uncategorized – Posted on March 27, 2023March 27, 2023 How Job Satisfaction Is Measured A century ago Louis Leon Thurstone taught us that “attitudes can be measured” and Robert Hoppock showed us how we … Continue reading >How Job Satisfaction Is Measured
Categories: Career and Professional Issues – Posted on March 20, 2023March 20, 2023 What Is a Practitioner-Scholar? About seven years ago I was fortunate to be invited to teach in the USF Muma College of Business executive … Continue reading >What Is a Practitioner-Scholar?
Categories: Leadership – Posted on March 13, 2023March 13, 2023 Working Hours and Employee Productivity I recently came across an article posted by NewsNation showing that 33 companies have recently learned what the Hawthorne researchers … Continue reading >Working Hours and Employee Productivity
Categories: Organizational Change – Posted on March 6, 2023March 6, 2023 Policies Cannot Change Culture People love to create policies. We have policies for what to do and policies for what to say. Creating a … Continue reading >Policies Cannot Change Culture
Categories: Teaching – Posted on February 20, 2023March 1, 2023 The Art of Stupid Questions As a woodworking hobbyist I read Wood magazine. In the latest issue, the editor Lucas Peters related an experience from … Continue reading >The Art of Stupid Questions
Categories: Mental Health – Posted on February 13, 2023February 13, 2023 Reasonable Accommodation Is Not Enough The summer I graduated high school I worked in a contact lens factory called Obrig Laboratories. I recall decades later … Continue reading >Reasonable Accommodation Is Not Enough
Categories: Research Methods – Posted on January 31, 2023January 31, 2023 Open Science Is No Panacea Like all human endeavors, science is flawed. There are biases, poor practices and downright fraud that undermine the integrity of … Continue reading >Open Science Is No Panacea
Categories: HR Issues – Posted on January 22, 2023January 22, 2023 What Is Overemployed Remote Work? An article by Megan Carnegie in my favorite magazine Wired caught my eye this morning. Carnegie was discussing the phenomenon … Continue reading >What Is Overemployed Remote Work?
Categories: HR Issues – Posted on January 9, 2023January 16, 2023 Personality Assessment for Employee Selection The use of pre-employment assessment is a $multi-billion industry. It is the most popular service that practitioners in my field … Continue reading >Personality Assessment for Employee Selection
Categories: Uncategorized – Posted on January 2, 2023January 2, 2023 Most Viewed Paul Spector Blogs of 2022 My first blog of 2023 is a look back at the most viewed Paul Spector Blogs of 2022. This retrospective … Continue reading >Most Viewed Paul Spector Blogs of 2022
Categories: Research Methods – Posted on December 12, 2022December 13, 2022 Theory Is Misused in Organizational Science If you read the academic literature in the organizational sciences, you will see the phrase “informed by theory…” It is … Continue reading >Theory Is Misused in Organizational Science
