Substance Abuse and the Workplace On August 12, 2019 (11 – 12 pm, Grand Ballrooms 7-8) I gave a talk on substance abuse and the … Continue reading >Substance Abuse and the Workplace
What Should You Assess in Your Job Applicants? Article about figuring out the Knowledge, Skill, Ability, and Other Characteristics you need to assess in your job applicants. This … Continue reading >What Should You Assess in Your Job Applicants?
Cyberloafing Helps Employees Cope Cyberloafing (employees using electronic devices for nonwork activities while at work) has been considered a drain on productivity that managers … Continue reading >Cyberloafing Helps Employees Cope
The Truth about Overlearning Overlearning, extra practice given at the time something is taught, is often built into classes in school and into organizational … Continue reading >The Truth about Overlearning
Why Is Job Satisfaction Important? Job satisfaction is the extent to which people like or dislike their jobs. People vary in how much they like … Continue reading >Why Is Job Satisfaction Important?
Workplace Incivility Linked to Burnout Nursing is a tough profession as nurses must deal with a variety of challenges including being the target of mistreatment, … Continue reading >Workplace Incivility Linked to Burnout
Are Overqualified Workers Unhappy? A new study by Maryana Arvan, Shani Pindek, Stephanie Andel and Paul Spector explores the relationship between overqualification and job … Continue reading >Are Overqualified Workers Unhappy?
Pre-Plan Even If You Don’t Pre-Register The idea of pre-registering studies with journals prior to conducting a study is spreading. Many journals encourage researchers to submit … Continue reading >Pre-Plan Even If You Don’t Pre-Register
Why You Shouldn’t Be a Coercive Leader Many leaders believe that you have to crack the whip to get employees to do their jobs. They believe that … Continue reading >Why You Shouldn’t Be a Coercive Leader
Prepare Students for the Job Market Faculty are experts in their disciplines so it is understandable that most undergraduate classes and curricula in the arts, humanities … Continue reading >Prepare Students for the Job Market
Item Format Method Variance At least since Campbell and Fiske’s (1959) classic paper on measurement, researchers have been concerned with item format as a … Continue reading >Item Format Method Variance
Using R Is Nostalgic I like R because for me, using R is nostalgic. It is a nostalgic experience because R is a throwback … Continue reading >Using R Is Nostalgic
Optimizing Citations in Research Reports Citation of external sources is a vital element in the writing of research reports, as well as other scholarly and … Continue reading >Optimizing Citations in Research Reports
What Is Organizational Climate? Beth and Mike are recent Marketing graduates who met up on Friday evening to celebrate their first week on new … Continue reading >What Is Organizational Climate?
Students Are Not Information Dumpsters Professors concerned about rigor will often pack their courses with content in both assigned readings and in-class lectures. The traditional … Continue reading >Students Are Not Information Dumpsters
Employee Mistreatment The #metoomovement has focused much needed attention on sexual harassment in the workplace. Sexual harassment is a serious problem for … Continue reading >Employee Mistreatment
Leading To Maximize Performance One of the main functions of an organization leader is to manage the job performance of his or her subordinates. … Continue reading >Leading To Maximize Performance
How to Bridge the Academic-Practice Divide One of the most lively discussions among members of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) is the gulf … Continue reading >How to Bridge the Academic-Practice Divide
