Categories : *Harvard Business Review
Leaders Succeed with Warmth and Competence
Social psychology research demonstrates that warmth and competence are key attributes of successful leaders.
Categories : *Harvard Business Review
Organizations Should Invest in Training to Fill Skills Gaps
Many employers just can’t find enough qualified candidates. Harvard Business Review authors explain how training programs can fix the “middle skills gap.”
Categories : *Journal of Vocational Behavior
Work-Life Balance Still Applies to Those Without Families
Work Life balance doesn’t have to mean juggling job responsibilities and responsibilities to a wife and kids. In the modern era, families and social ties take all different forms.
What Makes Executive Coaching Succeed?
Executive coaching can turn a good employee into a great leader. What makes an executive coaching relationship work? Research has the answer.
Categories : *International Journal of Selection and Assessment
How Useful is Conscientiousness for Predicting Job Performance?
Researchers discover that conscientiousness has limited usefulness when predicting job performance. Where does it matter most?
Categories : *Academy of Management Journal
Implementing Creative Ideas at Work
Which factors predict whether creative work ideas will be implemented? Research provides some answers.
Categories : *Journal of Vocational Behavior
Stretch Goals May Not Work for All Employees
Conventional wisdom says continuing to challenge your employees over time with difficult assignments and stretch goals is vital to keeping their engagement high. But what challenges are the right challenges?
Categories : *Industrial & Organizational Psychology
Successful Negotiation Strategies: The Team Versus the Individual
In the modern global marketplace most successful companies are multi-national. How does that affect negotiating style? A new study suggests that different tactics are more effective based on the culture of the negotiators.
Categories : *Industrial & Organizational Psychology
Culture and Negotiation
Success in business negotiation is success in business. An invisible factor could be affecting how people react to your negotiation strategy. If you are negotiating across cultures, it’s possible you are missing an important dynamic: how your culture is perceived by the other negotiating party.
Categories : *Personnel Psychology
Raise Employee Engagement With Volunteering
More and more companies are implementing volunteer programs. So, what effect do company-sponsored volunteerism programs have on the employees who participate? Is a strong culture of volunteerism key to employee engagement? In this study, learn how a strong volunteer program is a win for the NGO, a win for the employee who volunteers, and a win for the company that sponsors volunteer programs.