Is leadership something that leaders do? Or is it something that leaders and followers do together? This research suggests that followers who believe the former are more likely to carry out an unethical demand made by a leader. The idea…
Jacqueline Marhefka over at I/O at Work published a plain-English summary of Shall We Serve the Dark Lords? A Meta-Analytic Review of Psychopathy and Leadership from the Journal of Applied Psychology. The implicative segment of this paper’s title–Shall We Serve…
Bullying bosses are not only bad for employee morale, but they may also compromise employee judgment when it comes to workplace safety, according to research from Portland State University (PSU).Valerie Bolden-Barrett, HR Dive Read Study: Bullying Bosses Compromise Worker Bonds,…
In this episode, Dr. Gordon Schmidt discusses how virtual work and the gig economy may change how we look at leadership, team cohesion, and organizational identification. Show Links Follow Gordon on Twitter: @iopsychologyThe Future of Leadership is VirtualUsing Amazon Mechanical Turk…
Does having a woman in a top management position for a company make it easier or harder for a other women to attain a top management position in that same company? We apply our method to the underrepresentation of women…
“In our experiment, 618 online study participants in the US read a brief statement from a fictional company about the results of a sexual harassment survey taken by its employees. For some participants, the statement included a quote from the…
Which of these visions is more inspiring? “I hope that someday we will achieve full racial equality.” “I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.” Visions…
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In this episode, Dr. Alok Sawhney (@alok_ilage) talks about his work as a consulting psychologist for Vantage Leadership Consulting. Alok combines his experience as a business leader and his training in clinical psychology to offer leadership assessment and coaching. In this…