Categories: Career and Professional Issues – Posted on June 21, 2021June 27, 2021 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
Categories: Employee Health – Posted on June 13, 2021June 13, 2021 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
Categories: Research Methods – Posted on June 7, 2021June 7, 2021 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?
Categories: Mental Health – Posted on June 1, 2021June 1, 2021 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
Categories: Career and Professional Issues – Posted on May 24, 2021May 26, 2021 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
Categories: Career and Professional Issues – Posted on May 17, 2021May 17, 2021 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
Categories: Research Methods – Posted on May 11, 2021May 17, 2021 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
Categories: Employee Health – Posted on May 3, 2021May 3, 2021 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
Categories: Career and Professional Issues – Posted on April 26, 2021April 26, 2021 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
Categories: Leadership – Posted on April 19, 2021April 19, 2021 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
Categories: Research Methods – Posted on April 6, 2021May 1, 2021 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?
Categories: HR Issues – Posted on March 30, 2021May 1, 2021 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
Categories: Cyber Behavior – Posted on March 23, 2021May 1, 2021 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
Categories: Employee Health – Posted on March 16, 2021May 1, 2021 Being Rude Is Not the Same As Being a Bully Work can be a nasty place. Employees can experience abuse and mistreatment from peers, supervisors, subordinates and even the public. … Continue reading >Being Rude Is Not the Same As Being a Bully
Categories: Employee Health – Posted on March 8, 2021May 1, 2021 Having a Good Psychosocial Safety Climate Is Important Working can be stressful, so it is important that organizations do what they can to manage stress. All jobs can … Continue reading >Having a Good Psychosocial Safety Climate Is Important
Categories: Employee Health – Posted on March 1, 2021May 1, 2021 Nursing Is One of the Hardest Occupations There are health and safety risks for every occupation, with some having more injuries than others. The landscaper who mows … Continue reading >Nursing Is One of the Hardest Occupations
Categories: Organizational Behavior – Posted on February 23, 2021May 1, 2021 Failure Is the Price for Future Success There is a Chinese proverb that failure is the price for future success. It recognizes the role of failures and … Continue reading >Failure Is the Price for Future Success
Categories: Employee Health – Posted on February 15, 2021May 1, 2021 Social Support Is Important for Police Stress Policing is a highly stressful job. These first responders put themselves at risk both physically and psychologically in carrying out … Continue reading >Social Support Is Important for Police Stress
