Goals for Groups (IO Psychology)
Topic: Goals, Teams, Job Performance Publication: Journal of Applied Psychology (NOV 2011) Article: The Effect of Goal Setting on Group Performance: A Meta-Analysis Authors: A. Kleingeld, H. van...
View ArticleTips for Getting Tips (IO Psychology)
Topic: Job Performance, Personality, Training Publication: Journal of Applied Psychology (NOV 2011) Article: Want a Tip? Service Performance as a Function of Emotion Regulation and Extraversion...
View ArticleThe relationship between job performance and turnover – It’s not as simple as...
Topic: Job Performance, Turnover, Culture Publication: Journal of Applied Psychology (JAN 2012) Article: The effect of culture on the curvilinear relationship between performance and turnover Authors:...
View ArticleDoes Asking For Help Lead to High Performance? (IO Psychology)
Topic: Learning, Personality, Job Performance Publication: Journal of Applied Psychology (MAR 2012) Article: The Impact of Help Seeking on Individual Task Performance: The Moderating Effect of Help...
View ArticleA new rating scale for multisource feedback (IO Psychology)
Topic: Feedback, Job Performance, Measurement Publication: Personnel Psychology (AUTUMN 2012) Article: Evidence for the effectiveness of an alternative multisource performance rating methodology...
View ArticleWhen Customers Attack: Verbal Aggression and Employee Performance (IO...
Topic: Job Performance, Training, Conflict Publication: Journal of Applied Psychology (SEPT 2012) Article: When Customers Exhibit Verbal Aggression, Employees Pay Cognitive Costs Authors: A. Rafaeli,...
View ArticleBad Behavior At Work: Are Managers Asking For It? (IO Psychology)
Counterproductive work behaviors (CWBs) occur when employees do things that go against organizational goals. For example, stealing, bullying, unnecessary absence, swivel chair racing, beer pong in the...
View ArticleJob Commitment and Performance (IO Psychology)
Job involvement is related to both in-role job performance and organizational citizenship behavior, according to an investigation by Aamir Ali Chughtai of Dublin City University. Job involvement...
View ArticleThe curious case of the employee’s declining performance (Human Resource...
Minbasian, Earl, and Bright (2013) research study investigated openness to experience as a possible predictor of job performance. This sounds intuitive, right? [Read More]
View ArticleJob Performance – Predictors of Mood
The authors studies employees' positive and negative emotions from concurrent appraisals of the immediate task situation and individual differences in performance goal orientation. Hypothesized...
View ArticleEffects of training and coaching on job performance (IO Psychology)
The authors introduce the Strategies for Enhancing Performance Initiative to identify, test, and measure the most effective performance control practices in the workplace to both increase performance...
View ArticleStretch Goals: Careful Timing Required
We’ve all heard that boredom leads to employee turnover. Conventional wisdom says continuing to challenge your employees over time with difficult assignments and stretch goals is vital to keeping their...
View ArticleEnvy At Work: The Tale of Two Envies
Helen of Troy. Keeping up with the Joneses. Green with Envy. Envy is a power force with many names, manifestations, and forms. It has caused conflicts, large and small, since humans first began to...
View ArticleDoes a Job Furlough Affect Performance?
We all have limited amount of stress and pressure we can take. Many studies have established the strain resulting from the threat to employees' resources that layoffs or possible income losses...
View ArticleEffective Decision-Making: Why are Some Leaders Better at it than Others?
Effective decision-making is critical to successful leadership. However, not all decisions are created equal. Military leaders make their best decisions by taking into account the whole view of a...
View ArticleFake Smile at Work? How you do it may determine your job satisfaction
Most of us eventually encounter situations at work where we have to pretend to be cheerful even when we’re not. Research shows that how you fake a smile at work makes a big difference in job...
View ArticleThe Connection Between Self-Esteem and Job Satisfaction
Are you satisfied with your job? If not, the answer may be to look inward. This study includes an important note for employers regarding employee's perception of success/failure. Fortunately, the right...
View ArticleSelf-efficacy and Job Performance
Is the belief in one’s ability to succeed, also called self-efficacy, tied to past job performance or a cause of future success? Does self-efficacy lead to or come from successful job performance? This...
View ArticleSelection Tests and Job Performance
Does a candidate’s feelings about a company’s selection testing process affect their job performance, if hired? According to a new study, the answer to this question is: Yes. Does that mean you need to...
View ArticleIdiosyncratic Deals: How work arrangements affect job performance
Flex-schedules, work from home, modified hours, alternate office locations – lately the news is full of debates as to whether or not idiosyncratic deals and atypical work arrangements really, well,...
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