From the USC Marshall School of Business press release via EurekAlert!: Often, employees are shocked by what they think is a supervisor’s severe reaction to a subordinate’s seemingly minor transgression. The supervisors who punish them…
From the British Psychological Society (BPS) press release via AlphaGalileo: Research published today suggests that managers recognise the need to feign their emotions at work, especially when interacting with staff. This is the key finding…
From the American Sociological Association press release via EurekAlert!: Employers are often more focused on hiring someone they would like to hang out with than they are on finding the person who can best do…
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? Surely the workers would benefit,…
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 and ask those being assessed…
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 of research on teamwork in…
From the University of Iowa press release by Tom Snee via ScienceDaily: When stock analysts aren’t sure how to assess the earnings of a hard to value firm, they often just predict those earnings will…
From the Temple University press release via EurekAlert!: With an 8.1 percent August unemployment rate and 12.5 million Americans out of work, a new Temple University study examines a neglected area of research: how the…
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 as a result of sleep…
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 open access journal PLOS ONE.…