Tag: management

Study suggests taking personality into account may help in workforce planning

From the Concordia University press release via EurekAlert!: What if factory foremen treated their workers less like the machines they operate, and more like people, with personality strengths and differences?… Read more »

Study suggests external personality assessments may be more accurate in the workplace

From the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto press release: Businesses will get more accurate assessments of potential and current employees if they do away with self-rated personality tests… Read more »

Study suggests top executives’ team spirit may affect whole business

From the SAGE Publications press release via EurekAlert!: Effective teamwork among an organization’s top management makes employees happier and more productive, with positive benefits to the organization. Despite an abundance… Read more »

Study suggests sleep deprivation can influence professional behaviour

From the University of Arizona press release by Lia Samson via Physorg: Early 2011 saw a spate of reports in the media about air traffic controllers sleeping on the job… Read more »

Study links managerial role with more automatic decision-making

From the Public Library of Science press release via EurekAlert!: Managers and non-managers show distinctly different brain activation patterns when making decisions, according to research published Aug. 22 in the… Read more »

Study suggests social rejection can fuel imaginative thinking in individuals who already feel independent

From the Johns Hopkins press release via EurekAlert!: It’s not just in movies where nerds get their revenge. A study by a Johns Hopkins University business professor finds that social… Read more »

Study suggests feedback can have negative effect on performance

From the Queen Mary, University of London press release via EurekAlert!: People who give positive encouragement and constructive criticism could be wasting their breath according to the latest research from… Read more »

Study suggests sense of belonging may be more motivating in the workplace than money

From the University of Iowa press release via Newswise: A sense of belonging and attachment to a group of co-workers is a better motivator for some employees than money, according… Read more »