What Is Counterproductive Work Behavior? Bob is a disgruntled employee. He doesn’t like his job or how he is treated at work. Last week his … Continue reading >What Is Counterproductive Work Behavior?
Workplace Coaching Improves Mental Health There is growing awareness that employee mental health is important to organizations. The cost of poor employee mental health to … Continue reading >Workplace Coaching Improves Mental Health
Nurse Understaffing Can Cause Medical Errors No one is perfect, so it is inevitable that medical errors will occur. Although most errors are minor and result … Continue reading >Nurse Understaffing Can Cause Medical Errors
Unhelpful Help from Your Supervisor Isn’t Helpful You are at work making slow but steady progress on an important task. Your boss, Alex, watches you for a … Continue reading >Unhelpful Help from Your Supervisor Isn’t Helpful
Passive Leadership Is the Worst Kind The Art of War by Sun Tzu is often used as a device to teach strategic thinking in business. As … Continue reading >Passive Leadership Is the Worst Kind
The Secret to Successful Academic Writing I have been writing academic papers for more decades than I care to admit, and I have had more than … Continue reading >The Secret to Successful Academic Writing
Everyone Deserves to Have Decent Work I have been doing research for a book on job satisfaction and came across a concept that really resonated with … Continue reading >Everyone Deserves to Have Decent Work
Did We Really Need a Study to Confirm the Obvious? Last week I blogged about a new study concerning work and suicide. I posted about it on social media and … Continue reading >Did We Really Need a Study to Confirm the Obvious?
Employment Can Contribute to Suicide Prevention In the U.S. alone there are nearly 50,000 suicide deaths per year, and more than 1.4 million suicide attempts. The … Continue reading >Employment Can Contribute to Suicide Prevention
Doing Research Is Like Woodworking Woodworking is a hobby of mine, and I like to read the magazine Fine Woodworking. In the December 2020 issue, … Continue reading >Doing Research Is Like Woodworking
The Three Fs of Mentoring Success The other day I came across a talk (Part 1; Part 2) I gave on mentoring that reminded me about … Continue reading >The Three Fs of Mentoring Success
Choosing Assessments for a Questionnaire Study I do a lot of survey research. Many of the studies I do rely on people sharing their experiences. As … Continue reading >Choosing Assessments for a Questionnaire Study
How to Build a Healthier Work Organization Last week I sat down with Ben Baran and Chris Everett of the Indigo Podcast to talk about health in … Continue reading >How to Build a Healthier Work Organization
Choosing Your Industrial-Organizational Psychology Career So you’ve chose industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology as your career. Good choice since it has shown up on various lists of … Continue reading >Choosing Your Industrial-Organizational Psychology Career
Leadership That Achieves Employee Engagement Effective leadership is about influencing others to behave in a particular way. At work this means getting your employees to … Continue reading >Leadership That Achieves Employee Engagement
Can Personality Destroy Test Validity? I recently read this article by Nancy Doyle who writes about neurodiversity for Forbes. She notes how neurodiverse people can … Continue reading >Can Personality Destroy Test Validity?
Unconscious Bias Can Destroy Recruitment One of my graduate school mentors, Herb Meyer, was the head of personnel research at General Electric company in the … Continue reading >Unconscious Bias Can Destroy Recruitment
Don’t Forget Insider Threat to Cybersecurity In the first 3 quarters of 2020, there were 2,935 publicly reported data breaches that exposed more than 36 billion … Continue reading >Don’t Forget Insider Threat to Cybersecurity
