Featured and Health and Safety and Job Insecurity and OtherOct 31, 2024 How to Tackle Job Insecurity: Job Resources VS Demands Key Points: Have you ever found yourself trying to look busy at work, just to avoid being perceived as slacking on the job, and to protect your job? That feeling refers to job insecurity – the fear of losing one’s job. Job insecurity (JI) is a menace. In the Randstad’s Annual work monitor report almostContinue Reading
Employee Turnover and Featured and Leadership and Other and Performance Management and Work MotivationApr 8, 2024 Turnover: Decoding It’s Effects on Performance Key Points: Relationship between turnover rates and organizational performance is significant and negative. Voluntary and reduction-in-force (RIF) turnover have more negative impact than involuntary turnover rates in the context of organizational performance. We have been going through a tough job market with lots of uncertainties: Covid lockdowns, rising and waning inflation, disruption of supply chains,Continue 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
Employee Turnover and Featured and Health and Safety and Job Insecurity and Other and Performance Management and Work MotivationAug 4, 2023 Job Insecurity: Why It Matters and Is It All Inside Your Head? Key Points: You’ve no doubt heard the news that layoffs are trending. All it took for companies to start laying off thousands was the shift in the economic outlook and anticipation of the monetary policy changes that were going to follow that shift. The layoff frenzy seemed to start at tech where X (formerly Twitter)Continue Reading
Featured and Health and Safety and Leadership and Other and Performance Management and Work MotivationJul 28, 2023 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
Employee Turnover and Featured and Interviews and Other and Recruitment and SelectionJul 14, 2023 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
