Scientific Research in Organizations
What is scientific research and how is it used in real organizations? What barriers are there to the use of ivory tower research in the real world?
Category: Scholarly Pursuits
E-mail, The Game
This recent article in Wired discusses the work of Dr. Byron Reeves, who turned e-mail in an organization into a game. Each week, employees at the organizations he works with receive tokens which they can then attach to their e-mails, which they can then spend to make their e-mails more important.
Your College Exploits: Now Public Record
According to this recent article in the Chronicle, it has become common for college newspapers to put their full archives online, and as a result, anything you did in college that anyone ever wrote...
Desperation Can Cost You a Job
This article and this post at the Wall Street Journal led me to a peculiar conclusion: apparently, the best way to lose a chance at getting hired is to want a job really, really...
SIOP’s Identity Crisis: What’s In a Name?
My field’s principle organization, the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, has been recently debating a name change. It’s a topic about which many feel passionately. I’ve been resisting joining the fray because I haven’t been...
Discrimination in Hiring via Social Networks
Discrimination isn’t in itself a bad thing, which is a hard concept to get across to my undergraduate classes. In order to make good hiring decisions, you have to discriminate: this person has more...