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
Categories: Research Methods – Posted on December 7, 2021February 7, 2022 What Is a Meta-Analysis Scientists often repeat studies to determine if they can be replicated, that is, if the same results can be found … Continue reading >What Is a Meta-Analysis
Categories: Employee Health – Posted on November 29, 2021November 29, 2021 Training Can Improve Workplace Safety Work can be a dangerous place. Every day people are injured and even killed on the job. Keeping employees safe … Continue reading >Training Can Improve Workplace Safety
Categories: Career and Professional Issues – Posted on November 22, 2021February 7, 2022 What Is Organizational Behavior? I am trained as an industrial-organizational (I-O) psychologist, but my research area is organizational behavior or OB for short. I … Continue reading >What Is Organizational Behavior?
Categories: Career and Professional Issues – Posted on November 16, 2021November 16, 2021 We Should not Discourage Students from Manual Work Last week I was watching a crew of manual workers installing riprap around the pond across the street to fix … Continue reading >We Should not Discourage Students from Manual Work
