Psychological Side

Money is not always the main cause of job satisfaction. When employees spend a majority of their waking hours in the workplace, they need more than a paycheck to satisfy them. Using their talents, engaging them in challenging projects, offering incentives, and creating a friendly and respectful environment with low stress are among the reasons your staff will be glad to show up each day to contribute to the company's ultimate success. Culture When employees like their co-workers and find commonalities among their peers and supervisors, they tend to be more satisfied at work, according to Richard Harmer at the Australian Catholic University School of Psychology. When employees connect with co-workers and develop personal relationships they usually are happier at work. Overall job satisfaction also correlates with how well employees get along with their direct supervisors. Hiring managers and small business owners should look for employees with similar backgrounds and taste...

How many personality traits are there? How do we even know? In every language, there are many words describing a person’s personality. In fact, in the English language, more than 15,000 words describing personality have been identified. When researchers analyzed the terms describing personality characteristics, they realized that there were many words that were pointing to each dimension of personality. When these words were grouped, five dimensions seemed to emerge that explain a lot of the variation in our personalities.  Keep in mind that these five are not necessarily the only traits out there. There are other, specific traits that represent dimensions not captured by the Big Five. Still, understanding the main five traits gives us a good start for describing personality . A summary of the Big Five traits is presented in  Figure 3.4 .           Figure: 3.4:  Big Five Personality Traits Openness  is the degree to which a pers...

       The impact of emotions, whether positive or negative, is well researched on. Studies suggest that negative feelings have adverse effects on job performances. Anger often leads to aggressions towards colleagues while sadness leads to dissatisfaction with the job. Envy or conflict with peers also leads to frequent fights and in turn results absenteeism. It is not always that only bad emotions lead to bad results. Officeromance, despite being a positive feeling, can have negativeeffect on others. However, emotions can have positive effects as well. Positive emotions increase creativity, encourage helping behavior and cooperation and reduce aggression both against the organization and against people. Research suggests that positive people have better cognitive abilities and tend to do better in the workplace and with accuracy.Emotions influence the task on which an employee is working,the efforts he puts and how he influences other employees around him. ...

       Employee motivation and performance are key factors in moving a small business forward. Owners, managers and supervisors know positive motivation leads to better performance and higher productivity but may rely on the wrong tools. Microsoft Business states the conundrum as "using monetary and other rewards to improve motivation is a simple idea, but doing it fairly and effectively can be challenging."    Reinforcement    Essentially the two types of reinforcement are positive and negative. Positive reinforcement is using beneficial incentives to boost morale and productivity, such as performance based bonuses, sales commissions, achievement rewards, pay raises and promotions. Negative reinforcement is using unfavorable tools to achieve desired results, such as bad performance reviews, verbal and written warnings, suspension, pay reduction or dismissal warnings.    Benefits     Benefits as mot...

There is an ongoing debate about the correlation between leadership and management — does a manager have to be a great leader and does a leader need to have good management skills? What is the difference between leadership and management? Comparison Chart Leadership vs Management Definition : L: Leadership means "the ability of an individual to influence, motivate, and enable others to contribute toward the effectiveness and success of the organizations of which they are members." M: Management comprises directing and controlling a group of one or more people or entities for the purpose of coordinating and harmonizing that group towards accomplishing a goal. Personality Styles : L: Are often called brilliant and mercurial, with great charisma. Yet, they are also often seen as loners and private people. They are comfortable taking risks, sometimes seemingly wild and crazy risks. Almost all leaders have high levels of imagination . M: Tend to be...

  Human Resources Executive/Employee Relations   You may be able to use your bachelor’s degree in industrial-organizational degree to help companies resolve co-worker conflicts and/or employee-management conflicts. Due to your training and expertise in psychological principles, companies may hire you to help them better understand their employees. They may also hire you to help improve workplace morale and employee satisfaction. In this capacity, your main responsibility will be to act as a liaison between employees and upper management. You may also be responsible for hiring, firing and/or promoting employees.     Researcher   You may also use your industrial-organizational psychology degree to research business-related issues. Your main responsibilities will be to research company practices in an effort to improve productivity and quality within the workplace. Your primary function will be to develop more effective company policies and practices. ...

Terms of Organizational Psychology, Personnel Empowerment and Team Working: A Case Study Abstract This study contents the personnel working for a state university in Turkey except academic personnel. The research universe is departments under presidency, faculties, institutes, colleges, vocational schools, and coordinator ships. The study presented at 30 units of the university among 270 people of 340 administrative staffs. However, the study conducted just among 270 administrative staffs. Related to questionnaire form is prepared to investigate the perception of ideal workmates at personnel’ minds. Some part of questions on questionnaire forms is prepared as closed-ended, while others open-ended. The questions referring the perception of ideal workmates are presented as open-ended. The data are analysed at a statistical program. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187704281301433X?via%3Dihub