Featured and Recruitment and SelectionMay 1, 2015 Use structured interviews Employers have, at some point or another, probably felt both the pride of hiring a star employee and the disappointment of hiring a dud. There is one thing that these two types of employees have in common, though: success on an employment interview. How does this happen? How can the interview be maximized to measureContinue Reading
Featured and Health and SafetyApr 1, 2015 How High Job Demands Can Actually Lower Your Stress “How can I be less stressed at work?” Almost all employees at one time or another have asked this burning question, but not many have found the magic bullet to solve it. One potential answer may lie in Robert Karasek’s job demands-control model (JD-CM), which was developed to explain how different levels of job demands and control could influence strain, job satisfaction, and learning in the workplace. In order to fully understand this model, it is important to see that strain is the result of an imbalance between job demands and control within an organization.Continue Reading