What Is Quiet Quitting? The first time I saw the term in a news article, I was intrigued and wondered, what is quiet quitting? … Continue reading >What Is Quiet Quitting?
Method Variance: The Measure-Centric Approach In 1959 Donald Campbell and Donald Fiske published one of the most influential papers ever written about psychological measurement. They … Continue reading >Method Variance: The Measure-Centric Approach
Workplace Bullying Is a Problem for Organizations Helen Green was a bank employee who experienced an emotional breakdown requiring hospitalization after extended bullying at work. The company … Continue reading >Workplace Bullying Is a Problem for Organizations
What Is Workplace Ostracism? What is workplace ostracism? No matter the setting, we all want to belong. After all, self-determination theory tells us that … Continue reading >What Is Workplace Ostracism?
Writing for a General Blog Audience Last week the SIOP Electronic Communication Committee posted my interview with Beth Melillo about my blogging journey. We began with … Continue reading >Writing for a General Blog Audience
Statistical Control Is Academic Rigor Theater The incorporation of statistical control variables into our analyses has been common practice in many social science fields including the … Continue reading >Statistical Control Is Academic Rigor Theater
Enlightened Management Isn’t a New Idea In doing research for a chapter on counterproductive work behavior, I came across a 1944 article about employee withdrawal. Writing … Continue reading >Enlightened Management Isn’t a New Idea
The Weak Inference of Model Testing Modern research in the organizational and many other social sciences has become dominated by model testing. Models specify an order … Continue reading >The Weak Inference of Model Testing
The Stress of Being a Paramedic It is hard to think of a job that deals with more trauma than a paramedic. These first responders are … Continue reading >The Stress of Being a Paramedic
Focus Scientific Writing on Impact When the COVID19 pandemic hit in 2020, it seemed that everyone was jumping on the bandwagon to publish COVID research. … Continue reading >Focus Scientific Writing on Impact
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
