technology, education and training from an industrial/organizational (I/O) psychologist
In an upcoming issue of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Taddicken ((Taddicken, M. (2014). The ‘privacy paradox’ in the social web: The impact of privacy concerns, individual characteristics, and the perceived social relevance on...
Textual harassment, which is sexual harassment occurring via social media, is on the rise and potentially a nightmare for human resources professionals. In traditional sexual harassment, human resource professionals can generally assume that the...
Some employers survey their employees “anonymously” but act dishonestly. What do the rest of us do to convince employees of our truthfulness?
A new student by McNall and Stanton in the Journal of Business and Psychology examines electronic monitoring of employee vehicle location.
Daily Nation reports that billboards in Japan are being fitted with cameras that can scan the gender and age of people looking at them.
Northern Arizona University is implementing a system by which class attendance is tracked by scanning students as they walk into a classroom. The article is a little light on detail, but from what I can piece together, student ID cards will be implanted with an RFID chip (similar to the technology used in current US passports) which can be read from a distance. Thus, when you walk in the door, a sensor detects your student ID and automatically registers you attendance.