Have you ever been upset with your boss? Perhaps he or she overlooked an accomplishment or didn’t give you a raise that you thought you deserved. According to a study by labor relations expert David I. Levine, retaliating against one’s boss is more acceptable to employees if the retaliation is an act of omission or inaction, rather than active efforts to harm an unfair boss.
As NCAA basketball fans begin to research ESPN for information that could prove useful for their brackets -- many on company time -- employers are voicing concerns that the madness surrounding bracketology will cause declines in productivity. But Claire Simmers Ph.D., chair and professor of management at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, believes that if handled correctly, office pools are useful for boosting morale, as long as productivity is balanced.
Recent Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) limits aimed to enhance patient safety may compromise the quality of doctors’ training, according to a study by Mayo Clinic researchers published in the March issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings.
For the second time in three years, Whitehead Institute has been named the best place in the country for postdoctoral researchers to work.
The more honesty and humility an employee may have, the higher their job performance, as rated by the employees’ supervisor. That’s the new finding from a Baylor University study that found the honesty-humility personality trait was a unique predictor of job performance.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s move to strip or significantly narrow his state’s public-sector workers’ collective bargaining rights has significant implications for all unionized workers, both in the public and private sector, says Marion Crain, JD, the Wiley B. Rutledge Professor of Law and director of the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Work & Social Capital.
Researchers uncovered a serious gender gap in how male and female managers in the information systems field think about the challenges women in the profession face.
Improved training exercises, materials recommended.
Researchers at Oklahoma State University conducted a study of more than 450 college graduate employers examining not only what attributes employers look for but also the mechanisms with which employers measure these attributes.
Improving sustainability practices is a growing trend in businesses and organizations, with 62 percent of companies in 2009 reporting they had empowered internal teams to create eco-friendly workplaces. “It’s become part of our jobs to take time to think creatively about sustainability,” says Dedee DeLongpré Johnston, director of sustainability at Wake Forest.
Many jobs that require repetitive movements can cause injury to workers. Analyzing worker technique and muscle activity in relation to the workstation can provide answers to how an injury is incurred and how to prevent it in the future. With the assistance of surface electromyography (SEMG), an ergonomic analysis of worker behavior, posture, and movement can be conducted. The SEMG is a biofeedback instrument to measure muscle tension. The use of SEMG allows muscle function to be assessed in a manner that is objective and reproducible.
Employees with a strong sense of coherence—"a stress resistance resource" that is "a key factor in maintaining health"—have a more positive response to workplace changes resulting from a merger, reports a study in the February Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, official publication of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM).
UT-Battelle announced today that Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s approximately 5,000 employees and subcontractors recently passed a historic safety milestone by working 4 million hours without a serious injury.
Hands-on safety training for workers in highly hazardous jobs is most effective at improving safe work behavior, according to psychologists who analyzed close to 40 years of research. However, less engaging training can be just as effective in preparing workers to avoid accidents when jobs are less dangerous.
Angela B. Cornell, professor of law and director of the Labor Law Clinic at Cornell University, comments on the Supreme Court ruling in Thompson v. North American Stainless LP, which strengthens workplace anti-retaliation protections.
The On-Ramps into Academia workshop aims to lure women researchers working in government, industry or as consultants to academic positions in science, engineering and math departments. Applications for the second workshop, this spring, are due Feb. 15.
Employees with myocardial infarction (heart attack) and other types of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) are a major source of direct and indirect health costs, reports a study in the January Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, official publication of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM).
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has been recognized by FORTUNE magazine as one of the “100 Best Companies to Work For.”
The American Medical Group Association announced today that its Employee Satisfaction and Engagement Benchmarking Program recently reached an important landmark in its development. Its database recently surpassed more than 10,000 employees from 20 different medical groups.
Hannah Rudstam, senior extension associate at the Employment and Disability Institute in Cornell University’s ILR School comments on implications of the poll, “Recruiting Veterans with Disabilities: Perceptions in the Workplace.” The Cornell institute and the Society for Human Resource Management released the poll of more than 1,000 human resource professionals on Jan. 14.
Men are more likely than women to seek jobs in which competition with coworkers affects pay rates, a preference that might help explain persistent pay differences between men and women. But in cities where local wages are generally lower, women tend to want jobs in which competition determines wages, the study showed.
The January issue of the journal Anesthesiology examines the issue of burnout among anesthesiologists. Two studies provide significant burnout statistics among these highly trained medical specialists...
Running counter to conventional thought, a research study shows that demographic faultlines can alleviate injustices within the workplace.
Managers and executives who find value in diversity training are more committed to their organizations and satisfied with their careers than those who perceive training to be ineffective, suggest researchers from Ryerson University’s Diversity Institute in Management and Technology.
Creativity might be the trait many CEOs say is essential for senior leadership, but Cornell University research finds it can actually block you from reaching the top slots.
To meet their goal of lowering health care costs, worksite health promotion programs must be well implemented and have strong management support, reports the December Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, official publication of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM).
The unemployed may be more resilient than previously believed – the vast majority eventually end up as satisfied with life as they were before they lost their jobs.
Companies that have made recent wage and professional development cuts may want to start re-investing in their valued employees if they want to keep them according to a study in December's Journal of Vocational Behavior.
Researchers at the Center for Professional Excellence (CPE) at York College of Pennsylvania continue to find that students aren’t making the grade as professionals in the workplace, according to the annual nationwide survey on the state of professionalism among young workers.
Shootings like the one in which a gunman shot a doctor and killed a patient at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in September are "exceedingly rare," but the rate of other assaults on workers in U.S. health care settings is four times higher than other workplaces, conclude two Johns Hopkins emergency physicians after reviewing workplace violence in health settings.
ACOEM has released the Third Edition of Occupational Medicine Practice Guidelines to subscribers of APG-I. The proprietary, evidence-based system provides full access to ACOEM’s complete guidelines, featuring thousands of pages of the most current evidence medical treatment recommendations.
In recent years, the American workplace has been infused with unprecedented levels of hostility — and that’s largely due to the deterioration of supervisor-subordinate trust, according to Florida State University researchers.
Jack Goncalo, a professor of organizational behavior at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, will talk about how to best the workplace narcissist as featured speaker for Inside Cornell, Tuesday, Dec. 7, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. at the ILR Conference Center, 16 E. 34th St., Sixth floor, NYC.
College students who exhibit narcissistic tendencies are more likely than fellow students to cheat on exams and assignments, a new study shows.
Kathleen Reardon, Professor of Management and Organization releases Comebacks at Work: Using Conversation to Master Confrontation (Harper Collins, 2010). Book offers strategies to ensure success in the workplace by managing conversations with co-workers.
Presenteeism—defined as "reduced productivity at work due to health conditions"—is increasingly recognized as a contributor to health costs for employers. But more work is needed to develop reliable tools to measure presenteeism and its economic impact, according to a paper in the November Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
Workers who agreed to take early retirement were likely to not have considered that option if it hadn't been for pressure at the workplace to do so. This has been revealed in a new study carried out at the University of Haifa that examined the significance of early retirement.
Building on the body of evidence supporting a link between specialty nursing certification and workplace empowerment, a new study documents a positive association between nurses’ perceptions of workplace empowerment and the proportion of nurses with specialty certification in hospital units.
The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. Marion Crain, JD, the Wiley B. Rutledge Professor of Law at Washington University In St. Louis, looks at the act’s history and says changes in the American workplace and other factors raise the question of how the NLRA will adapt in the future.
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