Assessment and Evidence-Based Management and Featured and Interviews and Other and Performance Management and Recruitment and Selection Finding The Right Match Can Be Tricky: The Effectiveness of Various Candidate Selection Methods May Shock You! Key Points: Selection tools are quite different in their ability to predict performance than previously thought. Some less, some more. Overall (rather than contextualized) personality measures and years of job experience, are not meaningful predictors of performance. Structured Interviews, Job Knowledge, Biodata, Work Samples, Cognitive Ability and Integrity Tests are useful assessment methods and criteria.Continue Reading
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
Assessment and Featured and Myth-Busting and Other and Recruitment and Selection Myth-Busting: How Believing Smart People to be Socially Stunted Could be Costing You and Your Business Key Points: The belief that highly intelligent people lack social skills is a common stereotype, but recent research suggests it is more likely a myth than an informative stereotype. Findings suggest that smarter people tend to be better at accurately interpreting and responding to the social and emotional cues of others. By using objective data,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
Diversity & Inclusion and Featured and Leadership and Other and Teamwork and Work MotivationSep 8, 2023 How an Employer-Employee Identity Discrepancy May be Exhausting Your People and Bleeding Your Profits Key Points: Studies indicate that employees identify with organizations when there is an alignment in values, feelings of support, and they feel trust in the organization’s leaders to make the right decisions. The evidence suggests that organizational identification is malleable and can change with changes in the values of the organization or with changes inContinue Reading
Health and Safety and TeamworkFeb 16, 2023 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
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 Other and Performance Management and Training and Development and Work MotivationJul 21, 2023 Goal setting can influence job performance. But under which conditions? Key Points: Set challenging and specific goals for higher performance. Use data, feedback, and progress monitoring to achieve goals effectively. Consider individual differences and intrinsic motivation for successful goal setting. Most personal and professional progress is directed by our goals. Research shows that when we set and reach goals, we get into a virtuous cycleContinue Reading
Featured and Leadership and Training and DevelopmentApr 28, 2023 A Quick-Start Guide to Leadership Training Done Right Key Points: When delivered effectively, leadership training programs can improve leadership, change behavior, and help an organization’s bottom line. But you can’t just assume that the training you’re considering (or already receiving) is actually being delivered effectively. You should conduct a needs analysis before beginning training to ensure that the program that you’re considering isContinue Reading
Assessment and Featured and Health and Safety and Leadership and Training and DevelopmentApr 25, 2023 How Mindfulness Can Benefit Leaders, Their Followers, and Make for More Profitable Business Key Points: Mindfulness is positively correlated with many highly sought health and wellness indicators. Mindfulness is similarly correlated with highly sought and highly effective leadership styles like transformational leadership, authentic leadership, and with specific leader behaviours like less leader abuse. Organizations would do well to implement demonstrably effective evidence-based mindfulness training as it’s both costContinue 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
Featured and Health and Safety and Leadership and Other and Performance ManagementSep 15, 2023 Lean on Me: A Leader’s Impact on Wellness Key Points: Mental health is a vital occupational health factor that organizations should prioritize by actively developing positive leaders who reflect effective leadership styles and behaviours, implementing supportive policies, and proactively monitoring employee well-being to create a more productive and inclusive work environment. Effective leadership styles like transformational leadership, relations-oriented leadership, and task-oriented leadership, andContinue Reading
Assessment and Evidence-Based Management and Featured and Interviews and Other and Performance Management and Recruitment and SelectionAug 25, 2023 Finding The Right Match Can Be Tricky: The Effectiveness of Various Candidate Selection Methods May Shock You! Key Points: Selection tools are quite different in their ability to predict performance than previously thought. Some less, some more. Overall (rather than contextualized) personality measures and years of job experience, are not meaningful predictors of performance. Structured Interviews, Job Knowledge, Biodata, Work Samples, Cognitive Ability and Integrity Tests are useful assessment methods and criteria.Continue Reading
Diversity & Inclusion and Featured and Leadership and Other and Teamwork and Work MotivationSep 8, 2023 How an Employer-Employee Identity Discrepancy May be Exhausting Your People and Bleeding Your Profits Key Points: Studies indicate that employees identify with organizations when there is an alignment in values, feelings of support, and they feel trust in the organization’s leaders to make the right decisions. The evidence suggests that organizational identification is malleable and can change with changes in the values of the organization or with changes inContinue Reading
Diversity & Inclusion and Employee Turnover and Featured and Health and Safety and Interviews and Other and Recruitment and SelectionJun 9, 2023 What Can You Do to Encourage Discussions About Accommodating Employee Disabilities? Key Points: People with disabilities face barriers in employment, and accommodations such as accessibility facilities, flexible policies, and modified equipment are crucial for their work experience and quality of life. Many Canadian companies lack clear accommodation practices, resulting in less than 20% of people with disabilities using accommodations despite their right to be accommodated. TheContinue Reading
Featured and Health and Safety and Leadership and Other and Performance Management Lean on Me: A Leader’s Impact on Wellness Key Points: Mental health is a vital occupational health factor that organizations should prioritize by actively developing positive leaders who reflect effective leadership styles and behaviours, implementing supportive policies, and proactively monitoring employee well-being to create a more productive and inclusive work environment. Effective leadership styles like transformational leadership, relations-oriented leadership, and task-oriented leadership, andContinue Reading
Diversity & Inclusion and Featured and Leadership and Other and Teamwork and Work Motivation How an Employer-Employee Identity Discrepancy May be Exhausting Your People and Bleeding Your Profits Key Points: Studies indicate that employees identify with organizations when there is an alignment in values, feelings of support, and they feel trust in the organization’s leaders to make the right decisions. The evidence suggests that organizational identification is malleable and can change with changes in the values of the organization or with changes inContinue Reading
Featured and Health and Safety and Leadership and Other and Performance Management and Work Motivation If you want to motivate people, avoid these four words: “You have no choice!” Key Points: Providing support for autonomy can help provide the basic underlying needs for intrinsic motivation – autonomy, competence and connectedness. When these needs are satisfied, employees are more likely to experience intrinsic motivation for their work. This is in-turn related to higher levels of general well-being, work engagement and positive work behaviors, and lowerContinue Reading
Assessment and Evidence-Based Management and Featured and Interviews and Other and Performance Management and Recruitment and Selection Finding The Right Match Can Be Tricky: The Effectiveness of Various Candidate Selection Methods May Shock You! Key Points: Selection tools are quite different in their ability to predict performance than previously thought. Some less, some more. Overall (rather than contextualized) personality measures and years of job experience, are not meaningful predictors of performance. Structured Interviews, Job Knowledge, Biodata, Work Samples, Cognitive Ability and Integrity Tests are useful assessment methods and criteria.Continue Reading
Employee Turnover and Featured and Interviews and Other and Recruitment and Selection Enhancing the Online Applicant Experience: Shaping Perceptions and Behavior in Online Recruitment Key Points: Applicant experience seems to be linked to how applicants perceive the organization or whether they finish their application or not. Applicant experience’s correlation with perception and behavior do not seem to vary based on gender and sex. There are no differences between males and females and various age groups. Nowadays, many companies useContinue 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
Featured and Health and Safety and Leadership and Other and Performance Management Lean on Me: A Leader’s Impact on Wellness Key Points: Mental health is a vital occupational health factor that organizations should prioritize by actively developing positive leaders who reflect effective leadership styles and behaviours, implementing supportive policies, and proactively monitoring employee well-being to create a more productive and inclusive work environment. Effective leadership styles like transformational leadership, relations-oriented leadership, and task-oriented leadership, andContinue Reading
Employee Turnover and Featured and Health and Safety and Job Insecurity and Other and Performance Management and Work Motivation Job Insecurity: Why It Matters and Is It All Inside Your Head? Key Points: Job insecurity is significantly related to a staggering 51 unique negative work and individual outcomes. Cognitive job insecurity – thoughts tied to job insecurity – and affective job insecurity – feelings tied to job insecurity – are found to be related but different concepts. Feelings related to job insecurity seem to be moreContinue Reading
Assessment and Evidence-Based Management and Featured and Interviews and Other and Performance Management and Recruitment and Selection Finding The Right Match Can Be Tricky: The Effectiveness of Various Candidate Selection Methods May Shock You! Key Points: Selection tools are quite different in their ability to predict performance than previously thought. Some less, some more. Overall (rather than contextualized) personality measures and years of job experience, are not meaningful predictors of performance. Structured Interviews, Job Knowledge, Biodata, Work Samples, Cognitive Ability and Integrity Tests are useful assessment methods and criteria.Continue Reading
Employee Turnover and Featured and Interviews and Other and Recruitment and Selection Enhancing the Online Applicant Experience: Shaping Perceptions and Behavior in Online Recruitment Key Points: Applicant experience seems to be linked to how applicants perceive the organization or whether they finish their application or not. Applicant experience’s correlation with perception and behavior do not seem to vary based on gender and sex. There are no differences between males and females and various age groups. Nowadays, many companies useContinue Reading
Diversity & Inclusion and Employee Turnover and Featured and Health and Safety and Interviews and Other and Recruitment and Selection What Can You Do to Encourage Discussions About Accommodating Employee Disabilities? Key Points: People with disabilities face barriers in employment, and accommodations such as accessibility facilities, flexible policies, and modified equipment are crucial for their work experience and quality of life. Many Canadian companies lack clear accommodation practices, resulting in less than 20% of people with disabilities using accommodations despite their right to be accommodated. TheContinue 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
