A seminal 2007 study on work design tests the impact of 14 work characteristics including motivational (e.g. autonomy), social (e.g., feedback from others), and work context (e.g., physical demands) characteristics on 19 work outcomes. These work outcomes included behavioural (e.g., performance, absenteeism), attitudinal (e.g., job satisfaction, promotion satisfaction, internal work motivation), and well-being (e.g., anxiety, […]
The widespread experiment in remote work forced on society by the pandemic proved that employees are not less productive working from home and that companies can achieve the same results without in-person meetings, exchanges between management and employees, or the oft-cited “watercooler” discussions. This revelation that the accepted assumptions about the efficiency and effectiveness benefits […]
Improvements in health care and lifestyles have led to a greater number of people living longer. The result is the rise of “sandwich generation” caregivers—caregivers simultaneously responsible for minor children and older (65+) adults. An analysis of the data from the 2015 National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS) and National Study of Caregiving (NSOC)—two […]
Often treated as a joke or as a facetious explanation for unexpected behavior, the mid-life crisis is in fact real, according to a detailed report from a global team of researchers, and it is impacting the health and wellness of employees and business leaders in the most affluent countries. The research team reviewed numerous statistics […]
Your thoughts and feelings impact how you interpret what is happening around you. You might, for example, receive a vague email from your boss asking for a meeting. For hours, you stress about why he or she wants a meeting, imagining a variety of worst-case scenarios. In the end, the meeting is rather innocuous—no big […]
Resilience is the ability to adaptively respond to challenges and avoid the burnout and feelings of being overwhelmed that can damage the well-being, health and performance of leaders and employees. Improving resilience in an organization leads to higher feelings of engagement, less burnout, less stress, less conflict, and overall higher performance. Based on decades of […]
Unlike other careers, retirement from a military career typically occurs when people are still of working age. As a result, many veterans transition to a civilian workplace. In an average year, for example, the UK workforce will include between 13,000 to 23,000 veterans. Most companies are keen to hire veterans, who bring both experience and […]
Artificial Intelligence is both appreciated and feared: appreciated for the benefits it offers in terms of speed, accuracy and consistency; feared because many believe those benefits can render many human employees obsolete—a fear summarized in the familiar phrase, “Machines will take our jobs.” Studies show that such fears, leading to employee resistance and suspicion, will […]
Repeatedly making decisions for extended periods of time is mentally taxing and leads to what psychologists call ‘decision fatigue’. As a result, the decision makers will revert to default decisions—decisions that require the least amount of mental work. For example, one study showed that judges tended to refuse parole at a greater rate during periods […]
Research on power in organizations often treats power as unidirectional—how subordinates deal with superiors or how superiors deal with subordinates. Two researchers challenge this static, unidirectional perspective with a new theory of power framework built on the concept of a continuum of a sense of power. In their interactions with others, individuals are not always […]
