In this episode, Christine Porath talks about what happens when people are incivil at work. She highlights research that shows negative effects of incivility on creativity, performance, and leadership. Many leaders aren’t even aware when they are acting with incivility, so she discusses ways that leaders can get feedback about how civil they are. She also discusses … Continue reading "Christine Porath: Incivility at Work"

Marcus Butts talks about what happens when employees receive emails or texts from work after they have left work for the day. Surprisingly, he and his co-researchers find that certain kinds of nonwork time electronic communications actually make employees feel good. But organizations need to be careful about the emotional tone of  nonwork time emails, and … Continue reading "Marcus Butts: Electronic Communication in Nonwork Time"

Mike interviews Roy Chua about how cultural tightness and cultural distance affect creativity. In a study of hundreds of contests on an international crowdsourcing platform, Roy and his colleagues looked at who entered and won these creative contests. They found that people from tight cultures–cultures where norms are strong and people are punished for … Continue reading "Roy Chua: Culture and Creativity"

In this podcast, Mike interviews Jenny Hoobler about why the glass ceiling effect still persists for executive women. Jenny talks about the results of her study that show that managers tend to perceive women as having lower levels of fit with their jobs because they perceive them to have high levels of family-to-work conflict. (Interestingly, … Continue reading "Jenny Hoobler: The Glass Ceiling "

Mike interviews Brad Kirkman about his research on how culture affects leadership. Brad discusses how the cultural value of power distance affects how followers respond to leaders. When followers espouse low power distance values, transformational leadership greatly affects follower perceptions of fairness and citizenship behaviors. Bradley L. Kirkman is the John E. Pearson Associate Professor … Continue reading "Brad Kirkman: Power Distance and Transformational Leadership"

Mike interviews Stuart Bunderson about his research on work as a calling. Drawing on rich philosophical and theological traditions, Stuart talks about how calling changes the way people think about their occupations. Using an unusual sample of zookeepers, he discovered what seeing work as a calling means both to the employee and to the organization. … Continue reading "Stuart Bunderson: Work as a Calling"

Morela interviews Sabrina Deutsch Salamon about her research on trust and the advantageous effects that nurturing manager trust in employees may have on organizational performance. Sabrina proposes that employees who feel trusted by their managers think more about how to achieve organizational goals in a manner that does not hurt the organization, rather than about … Continue reading "Sabrina Deutsch Salamon: Does Your Boss Trust You"

Morela Hernandez interviews Joshua Margolis and Andy Molinsky about a study they recently conducted that examined how individuals performing “necessary evils” respond to the reality of causing harm to others and how different response styles to this experience affect their subsequent treatment of the target of their actions. Investigating the experiences of managers, doctors, police … Continue reading "Joshua Margolis and Andy Molinsky: Necessary Evils "

Mike interviews Christina Maslach of the University of California-Berkeley about her research on employee burnout. Her most recent study found that employees who show one of the symptoms of burnout will likely show full-blown burnout a year later, if their jobs also have one of the accompanying conditions leading to burnout. Christina Maslach is Vice … Continue reading "Christina Maslach: Early Warning Signs of Burnout"

Mike interviews Sabine Sonnentag from Universität Konstanz in Germany about a study she recently conducted on how people recover from work Sabine Sonnentag discusses how disengaging from work in the evening affects people’s moods.in the evening. Using Palm Pilots, participants reported their activities in the evening and their moods the following morning. Results indicated that … Continue reading "Sabine Sonnentag: Recovering from Work"