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
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
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: 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