From the UC Berkeley press release via EurekAlert!: Employees often tiptoe around their bosses for fear of offending them. But new research from the University of California, Berkeley, shows people in power have thicker skin…
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 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 Association for Psychological Science press release: We’ve all heard of the “glass ceiling” but the recent economic crisis has illuminated another workplace phenomenon: the “glass cliff.” Women seem to be overrepresented in precarious…
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 Zürich press release via AlphaGalileo: Character strengths can be defined as traits that are evaluated as morally positive, such as self-control, teamwork or kindness. Character strengths that are particularly distinctive for…
From the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid press release via ScienceDaily: One of the keys to happiness at work is earning a lot of money, but what is equally important, if not more important, is…
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…