Evidence-Based Management and Featured Evidence-Based Management: From the What and the Why, to the How To The central premise of Evidence-Based HR is that people decisions are more likely to be successful when they build on critical thinking and the use of the best available evidenceContinue Reading
Evidence-Based Management and Featured Why do we need Evidence-Based Management? We already explained what Evidence-based management is, but why do we need it? Research findings explain how HR managers are often not better on a HR knowledge test than university undergraduates. Discover what you can do about it, and why this matter for the world of HR.Continue Reading
Employee Turnover and Featured and Myth-Busting Employee Turnover: Will Money Help Retaining Employees? General compensation and financial rewards alone may have a limited impact on employee turnover. Rewards beyond pay (e.g. benefits, career or growth opportunities, and training) may have a larger effect employee turnover than money.Continue Reading
Assessment and Featured and Myth-Busting and Recruitment and Selection Emotional intelligence can predict performance – but not as well as you might think Emotional intelligence can predict performance, but we will tell you how much and why, and EI-lovers might not like it.Continue Reading
Featured and Myth-Busting and Work Motivation Generational differences at work. Myth or reality? Lots of articles, books, lectures or even TED talks based on surveys and expert opinions are claiming that Veterans, Boomers, Xs and Millennials need to be treated differently because they hold diverse work-related attitudes. Is that a myth or reality? In this article we will present the counterintuitive results of a very solid and reliable study.Continue Reading
Featured and Organizational Development and Performance Management and TeamworkJan 16, 2023 “Working together”: Does it really matter for Team Performance? Key Points: Team collaboration is not fixed; embedding it is a great target for organizational improvement. Teams can be designed for collaboration. Focus on building collaboration into tasks and outcomes the team is pursuing. Team collaboration can impact how we think, act, and feel about our teammates. In turn, it improves performance. This Evidence-Based Summary hasContinue Reading
Teamwork and Training and DevelopmentJul 15, 2019 Team Building: How to Get Real Results from Team Building Activities Key points Team building interventions have three essential characteristics which clarify the confusion around the term and help differentiate it from other interventions aimed at teams; Team building interventions improve team members’ feelings and team interactions, but don’t have a considerable effect on team performance; Effective team building activities are not only fun, but mustContinue Reading
Featured and TeamworkMay 14, 2018 Effective team communication? Focus on quality! Effective team communication has many benefits. If you are concerned that poor team communication may be costing your business money, keep reading. In this Evidence Summary, we outline some of the latest science on how you can improve communication within your team.Continue Reading
Featured and TeamworkOct 9, 2017 Five questions about psychological safety, answered. Psychological safety recently came storming into the mainstream when research by Google on high-performing teams hit the news. This Evidence Summary highlights the findings from 117 studies representing over 22,000 individuals and nearly 5,000 groups!Continue Reading
Training and DevelopmentSep 3, 2019 Training: Make Change Stick with Behaviour Modelling Key Points: Behaviour modelling training (BMT) is a popular training intervention which focuses on changing behaviours on the job. BMT improves trainees’ knowledge, skills, and desired actions on the job You can design BMT to work even better, for example by describing both the “what” and the “why” of the new behaviors trainees learn SarahContinue Reading
Teamwork and Training and DevelopmentJul 15, 2019 Team Building: How to Get Real Results from Team Building Activities Key points Team building interventions have three essential characteristics which clarify the confusion around the term and help differentiate it from other interventions aimed at teams; Team building interventions improve team members’ feelings and team interactions, but don’t have a considerable effect on team performance; Effective team building activities are not only fun, but mustContinue Reading
Featured and Training and DevelopmentOct 18, 2018 Informal Learning: Your Essential Guide Informal learning behaviours may be linked to better performance, and here is what you can do to maximise them in your peopleContinue Reading
Diversity & Inclusion and Featured and Training and DevelopmentSep 18, 2017 Does Diversity Training Work? Time for an Evidence-Based Answer There’s one place where cooperation between people is necessary: the workplace. With so many instances of division, leaders must take responsibility for giving people opportunities to collaborate and, thus, foster inclusion in the workplace. Can diversity training help leaders build a more inclusive workplace? What can we do to increase the chances for diversity training to work?Continue Reading
Featured and Training and DevelopmentAug 31, 2017 What makes people apply what they learn during training Laslo Bock: “American companies spent $156 Bn on learning programs in 2011, a staggering sum . Most of that money and time is wasted. Not because the training is necessarily bad, but because there’s no measure of what is actually learned and what behaviours change as a result”Continue Reading
Featured and Training and DevelopmentAug 8, 2017 Onboarding new employees: the 3 elements that make all the difference New hires are like sponges, absorbing all kinds of information – about the company, their new role, their new team, and much more. Organizations can make this process smoother by designing and delivering great onboarding.Continue Reading
Health and Safety and Other and Performance ManagementMar 17, 2023 Job Satisfaction and Job Performance: Do They Have a Causal Relationship? Key Points: Work attitudes do seem to have a small causal impact on job satisfaction. Job satisfaction does not seem to cause an improvement in work attitudes. The impact of attitudes fades over time. Everyone on Earth has probably experienced just how much our attitudes can impact our work. Many of us have elucidating momentsContinue Reading
Featured and Organizational Development and Performance Management and Work MotivationJan 31, 2023 How to create work that gets employees energized The drivers, factors, and contexts that boost work motivation. Key Points: Stand out elements for work motivation are goal setting, feedback, and feeling supported by your manager. Human motivation is not fixed; it can change through mindsets, circumstances, and outcomes. Tasks that involve creativity, autonomy, teamwork, and well-being are strong drivers of intrinsic motivation, theContinue Reading
Diversity & Inclusion and Featured and OtherFeb 21, 2018 Gender Pay Gap: How Negotiation Can Help Women Achieve Equal Pay The gender pay gap is real. It often starts at the hiring stage when initial salaries are set, and then increases as people get promoted. Succeeding (or not) in a single salary negotiation may impact pay equity in the workplace.Continue Reading
Diversity & Inclusion and Featured and Training and DevelopmentSep 18, 2017 Does Diversity Training Work? Time for an Evidence-Based Answer There’s one place where cooperation between people is necessary: the workplace. With so many instances of division, leaders must take responsibility for giving people opportunities to collaborate and, thus, foster inclusion in the workplace. Can diversity training help leaders build a more inclusive workplace? What can we do to increase the chances for diversity training to work?Continue Reading
Featured and Leadership What we do (and don’t) know about the factors linked to workplace coaching success Key points Coach-client trust, coaching motivation, and client self-efficacy are most consistently linked with workplace coaching success in current empirical research on coaching. The influence of feedback, coach-client similarity, and supervisor support is less clear. In addition to external research, people designing workplace coaching programs may want to look to organizational sources of evidence toContinue Reading
Featured and Leadership and Organizational Development Trust in Leadership – One Key Factor During Organizational Change Key Points – Employees who trust their leaders may feel more committed, more satisfied, and more likely to stay – Trust in leadership helps organizational change because it can create a collaborative environment where people share their knowledge – Leaders can build trust by making processes fair and transparent, treating people equally, and allocating resourcesContinue Reading
Featured and Leadership Ignoring Bad Leadership May Be Risky Business — Here’s Why. Bad leadership affects 10%-16% of US employees. This comes to an annual cost of close to $24 billion. If you haven’t considered how the “dark side” of leadership may be affecting your employees and your organization, now might be the time to give it some thought!Continue Reading
Assessment and Other and Recruitment and Selection Personality and Workplace Deviance: Big Five Versus HEXACO Key Points: Scientists have been studying personality at work for a century and they’ve created some fantastic measures of personality like the Big Five and the HEXACO. A recent meta-analysis examined which assessment was better at predicting deviant work behaviour, the newer HEXACO model or the much more established Big Five model. They found thatContinue Reading
Recruitment and Selection Recruitment: is an experienced hire a better hire? Key Points Previous work experience doesn’t predict performance in a new job as much as you might believe Previous work experience is also a poor predictor of training performance The impact previous work experience can have on job performance may depend on the complexity of the job How many times have you glanced through aContinue Reading
Employee Turnover and FeaturedJan 22, 2018 Employee Turnover: An Evidence-Based Approach to a Thorny Issue Employee turnover can be costly. It’s easy to find advice on how to reduce employee turnover, but an evidence-based practitioner would look for more than that. Here you can read the results of 17 years of research with data on 669,000 people.Continue Reading
Employee Turnover and Featured and Myth-BustingFeb 5, 2018 Employee Turnover: Will Money Help Retaining Employees? General compensation and financial rewards alone may have a limited impact on employee turnover. Rewards beyond pay (e.g. benefits, career or growth opportunities, and training) may have a larger effect employee turnover than money.Continue Reading
Employee Turnover and FeaturedMar 26, 2018 Job Characteristics Contributing to Employee Turnover: Do Nothing and You Risk Losing People Do you have positions, teams or departments where employees tend to stay for significantly shorter periods of time than in the rest of the organization? In these situations, the characteristics of the job might contribute to driving people away.Continue Reading
Employee Turnover and FeaturedJun 12, 2018 Employee Turnover: How to become a manager that people don’t want to leave You may have heard the saying “people leave managers, not jobs”. But is it even true?Continue Reading
Health and Safety and Other and Performance Management Job Satisfaction and Job Performance: Do They Have a Causal Relationship? Key Points: Work attitudes do seem to have a small causal impact on job satisfaction. Job satisfaction does not seem to cause an improvement in work attitudes. The impact of attitudes fades over time. Everyone on Earth has probably experienced just how much our attitudes can impact our work. Many of us have elucidating momentsContinue Reading
Featured and Health and Safety It’s All Fun and Games Until You’ve Created a Hostile Work Environment: How Workplace Bullying is Linked to Mental Health Key Points: Workplace bullying has been linked to negative outcomes of health and mental illness. Although depression, anxiety, stress, and burnout were all associated with being bullied. Symptoms of depression were most consistently. Anxiety and stress fall into two categories: Generalized anxiety and PTSD, which had stronger relationships with workplace bullying. Similarly, burnout symptoms wereContinue Reading
Featured and Interviews An Evidence-Based Take on Understanding Workplace Behaviors: Interview with John Ballard, PhD, Author of Decoding the Workplace John Ballard is emeritus professor of management at Mount St. Joseph University in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 2016 the university presented him its Distinguished Scholar Award for his efforts to bridge the management scholar-practitioner gap through his blogs, tweets, and his award-winning book. He is co-author of the much-acclaimed “Who Built Maslow’s Pyramid? A History ofContinue Reading
Featured and Interviews On Leadership: Interview with John Antonakis, Editor-In-Chief of The Leadership Quarterly Prof. John Antonakis talks about leadership, fads and fashions, people analytics and leadership development programs.Continue Reading
Featured and Interviews An Evidence-Based Take on Engagement and Surveys: Interview with Paul Fairlie, Founder & CEO of Heliosophy Paul Fairlie, Founder & CEO of Helisophy, shares his evidence-based view on engagement, employee surveys and organizational performance.Continue Reading
Featured and Interviews and Performance Management Next Generation Performance Management: Interview with Alan Colquitt, Director at Eli Lilly. Alan Colquitt is the Director of Global Assessment, Workforce Research, and Organizational Effectiveness at Eli Lilly and Company. He is the author of the recently published book “Next Generation Performance Management: The Triumph of Science over Myth and Superstition”.Continue Reading
