Category: Work

Research explores workers’ response to abusive supervision

From the University of Texas at Dallas press release: A recent Naveen Jindal School of Management study examined the damaging impact abusive supervision has in the workplace including the ways… Read more »

New insights into how employees manage stressful situations at work

From the University of East Anglia press release: Researchers have developed a new tool which could benefit organisations and their staff by assessing employees’ beliefs about how they manage challenging… Read more »

Study suggests employees who work in open-plan offices feel worse and are more dissatisfied with their work

From the Karlstad University press release: It is becoming increasingly common for employees to share the workplace with their colleagues in large open-plan office areas. In this way, companies and… Read more »

Study suggests use of mobile devices at home can carry conflict to workplace

From the University of Texas at Arlington press release: A University of Texas at Arlington researcher is part of a team of authors who have found that using a mobile… Read more »

Study suggests bargain hunting affects perceptions of customer service workers

From the University of British Columbia press release: Everyone loves a bargain, but new research suggests some employees may be getting short-changed when it comes to how consumers perceive them… Read more »

Study suggests bosses who ‘phone snub’ their employees risk losing trust, engagement

From the Baylor University press release: Supervisors who cannot tear themselves away from their smartphones while meeting with employees risk losing their employees’ trust and, ultimately, their engagement, according to… Read more »

Study suggests blurring the boundaries between work and personal life can lead to exhaustion

From the Springer press release: In working life it’s now almost expected that employees answer work-related emails after hours, or take their laptops with them on holiday. But the blurring… Read more »