Idle time, when you can’t get your work done, is a little like being stuck in a waiting room: you get bored, your mood sours, and you imagine yourself being anywhere else in the universe. But is there an upside to idle time? We know, for example, that when employees can’t carry out […]
Tag: OCB
Organizational Citizenship Behavior
OCB is about going the extra mile.
Superhero Syndrome
“I’ll just do it myself.” ✦ “No thanks, I better handle this one.” ✦ “If you want something done right, do it yourself.” ✦ “I can’t trust anyone else with this.” The belief that we should be able to do it all without help is sometimes called “Superman Syndrome” or […]
Lotfi Kerzabi on the Big 5 and OCB
Lotfi Kerzabi is a doctoral student at Wayne State. In this episode, he discusses some research he conducted on correlations between the Big 5 personality traits and organizational citizenship behaviors. If you’d like to contact Lotfi, you can connect with him on LinkedIn here, or send him an email at […]
