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, 2022January 3, 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, 2021December 7, 2021 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, 2021November 22, 2021 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
Categories: Career and Professional Issues – Posted on November 10, 2021November 10, 2021 Guide to I-O Psychology PhD Program Application Success in applying to an industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology doctoral program requires careful preparation. This guide to I-O psychology PhD program … Continue reading >Guide to I-O Psychology PhD Program Application
Categories: HR Issues – Posted on November 1, 2021November 1, 2021 What Are the Kirkpatrick Levels of Training Evaluation? One of the most important HR activities in any organization is training. It is part of the onboarding process for … Continue reading >What Are the Kirkpatrick Levels of Training Evaluation?
Categories: Employee Health – Posted on October 25, 2021October 25, 2021 Is Perfectionism Bad for Your Health? I’ve known many colleagues and students who struggle with perfectionism. While high standards for your work can be productive, excessive … Continue reading >Is Perfectionism Bad for Your Health?
Categories: Career and Professional Issues – Posted on October 19, 2021October 19, 2021 What Is Industrial-Organizational Psychology? I am an industrial-organizational (I-O) psychologist. My graduate training was in I-O psychology, I have taught I-O psychology, and I … Continue reading >What Is Industrial-Organizational Psychology?
Categories: Leadership – Posted on October 12, 2021October 17, 2021 What Is Self-Determination Theory? What are the main drivers in your life? For example, what motivates you to action at work? Do you enjoy … Continue reading >What Is Self-Determination Theory?
Categories: Teaching – Posted on September 28, 2021September 28, 2021 I Like Teaching Statistics with JASP I admit it. I am a die-hard coder. I like writing computer programs and will sometimes do so just for … Continue reading >I Like Teaching Statistics with JASP
Categories: Organizational Change – Posted on September 15, 2021September 15, 2021 An Action Research Approach to Organizational Climate A few years ago, I had the pleasure to co-direct a USF Muma College of Business DBA dissertation by Tres … Continue reading >An Action Research Approach to Organizational Climate
Categories: Research Methods – Posted on September 8, 2021September 8, 2021 Three Types of Scientific Inference When you break it down, science is about inference. Scientists collect information (data) in a systematic way and draw conclusions … Continue reading >Three Types of Scientific Inference
Categories: Mental Health – Posted on August 31, 2021August 31, 2021 COVID News Is Bad for Mental Health Before cable networks and the internet, we got our news in small doses. We had our morning newspaper and the … Continue reading >COVID News Is Bad for Mental Health
Categories: Organizational Behavior – Posted on August 24, 2021August 24, 2021 Organizational Climate Is Complex and Dynamic This past weekend I taught my organizational climate and culture class to executive Doctor of Business Administration students. It is … Continue reading >Organizational Climate Is Complex and Dynamic
