Categories: Organizational Change – Posted on June 20, 2022June 20, 2022 Enlightened Management Isn’t a New Idea In doing research for a chapter on counterproductive work behavior, I came across a 1944 article about employee withdrawal. Writing … Continue reading >Enlightened Management Isn’t a New Idea
Categories: Research Methods – Posted on June 6, 2022June 6, 2022 The Weak Inference of Model Testing Modern research in the organizational and many other social sciences has become dominated by model testing. Models specify an order … Continue reading >The Weak Inference of Model Testing
Categories: Employee Health – Posted on May 31, 2022May 31, 2022 The Stress of Being a Paramedic It is hard to think of a job that deals with more trauma than a paramedic. These first responders are … Continue reading >The Stress of Being a Paramedic
Categories: Career and Professional Issues – Posted on May 23, 2022May 23, 2022 Focus Scientific Writing on Impact When the COVID19 pandemic hit in 2020, it seemed that everyone was jumping on the bandwagon to publish COVID research. … Continue reading >Focus Scientific Writing on Impact
Categories: Research Methods – Posted on May 17, 2022May 17, 2022 Single-Item Measures Are Better Than You Think In 1992 I wrote a “Little Green Sage Series” book Summated Rating Scale Construction as an accessible guide to creating … Continue reading >Single-Item Measures Are Better Than You Think
Categories: Leadership – Posted on May 9, 2022May 9, 2022 Delegation Is the Key to Leadership Success If there’s one thing I’ve learned being an advisor to doctoral students and a manager of a team in an … Continue reading >Delegation Is the Key to Leadership Success
Categories: Employee Health – Posted on April 25, 2022April 25, 2022 Unhelpful Help Is Detrimental Social Support Two years ago and again last week I blogged about research I’ve done with Cheryl Gray about her new concept … Continue reading >Unhelpful Help Is Detrimental Social Support
Categories: Leadership – Posted on April 18, 2022April 18, 2022 Leaders Should Provide Helpful Support Recent research has begun to unpack how attempts by leaders to support followers is not always successful. We recently published … Continue reading >Leaders Should Provide Helpful Support
Categories: Research Methods – Posted on April 4, 2022April 4, 2022 Research Methods Determine Scientific Inference Of all the things I study, I am most passionate about research methods—doing research on how we do research. I … Continue reading >Research Methods Determine Scientific Inference
Categories: Career and Professional Issues – Posted on March 21, 2022March 21, 2022 A New IO Faculty Retention Problem Psychology departments have a new IO faculty retention problem. During my career, I have seen the growing diaspora of academic … Continue reading >A New IO Faculty Retention Problem
Categories: Job Satisfaction – Posted on March 14, 2022March 17, 2022 My Personal Job Satisfaction Journey Job satisfaction has a long history of interest by both academics and practitioners going back to the 1930s when Robert … Continue reading >My Personal Job Satisfaction Journey
Categories: Organizational Behavior – Posted on March 1, 2022March 1, 2022 Self-Correcting the Relationship between CWB and OCB Last week I gave a talk at Cankaya University about our work on the connection between counterproductive work behavior (CWB) … Continue reading >Self-Correcting the Relationship between CWB and OCB
Categories: Career and Professional Issues – Posted on February 14, 2022February 14, 2022 Choosing a Publication Outlet I have published more than 200 peer-reviewed academic journal articles, mostly in collaboration with colleagues. One of the most important … Continue reading >Choosing a Publication Outlet
Categories: Job Satisfaction, Organizational Behavior – Posted on February 7, 2022February 7, 2022 What Is Employee Engagement? There is a lot of talk about employee engagement and why it is vital for organizational success. Executives strive to … Continue reading >What Is Employee Engagement?
Categories: Mental Health – Posted on January 25, 2022January 25, 2022 HR Analytics Can Help with Mental Health When it comes to workplace health and safety, people usually think it means physical illness and injuries due to the … Continue reading >HR Analytics Can Help with Mental Health
Categories: Job Satisfaction – Posted on January 17, 2022January 17, 2022 What Is Employee Job Satisfaction? If you are currently employed, what do you think about your job? Do you like it? Would you like to … Continue reading >What Is Employee Job Satisfaction?
Categories: Employee Health – Posted on January 10, 2022January 10, 2022 Work Overload and Underload Are Both Stressful There is little doubt that having too much to do at work can be overwhelming and stressful. Excessive demands can … Continue reading >Work Overload and Underload Are Both Stressful
Categories: Uncategorized – Posted on January 3, 2022February 7, 2022 Paul Spector’s Dozen Most Popular Blogs for 2021 It is now a tradition. As I did last year, my first blog of 2022 will be a recap of … Continue reading >Paul Spector’s Dozen Most Popular Blogs for 2021
