The article link below is about employee engagement and how to help measure if you are engaged at your current position. It describes how engagement is having a connection with the company you work with, which is some kind of organizational commitment that gives you an attachment or purpose to your work (Macey & Schneider, 2008)….
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After reading about ethics in small groups there was something about groupthink that got me thinking. What is groupthink and what is its effect on ethics? Groupthink may be defined many ways but Irving Janis who coined the phrase defines it as “a collective pattern of defensive avoidance” (Sims, 1992, pg. 651). This meaning that…
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I am working on my masters on psychology in leadership (From Penn State University) and this book is our staple. Lucky for me it is a great read in general. It discusses all the different styles and types of leadership and addresses issues that surround leadership. I have learned so much with this one book…
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A small tidbit I wrote for my company newsletter, hope you find it useful. We do not work alone in our business. It takes the whole team to make our business a success. We all play our parts and the more those around us know our strengths and how we work the more valuable we…
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Archetype…Which one defines you the most? I have always been an advocate on learning how we function and process and also learning about those around you. When you know how you process information and what your emotional responses are to situations you have better control over what happens in your life. Learning about how those…
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Here is a muse on being a team player I wrote for a company newsletter…hope you enjoy! Being a part of a team is an important aspect of work life. It is rare for us to work solely alone never depending on anyone else. It is crucial for success in our business to be a…
Continue reading →I will post uplifting posts that I put into my organization’s newsletter I write monthly. I hope you enjoy them as much I enjoy writing them! In my endeavor for knowledge of business and the inner works of a successful company, I have come across ample amounts of information. In all this information I find…
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I have never been a negative person; I am an optimist to the fullest. A couple semesters ago I took a positive psychology class and I realized that even being optimistic I had a lot of work to do. It’s crazy to think that most of us going for a psychology degree will study in…
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Job performance is often perceived to be related to job satisfaction but the evidence shows there is not a high correlation, actually a fairly low one. So how many leaders out there are assuming the high job performance and measuring their employees job satisfaction? The link is to a study showing the lack of relationship:…
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I hear it all the time; I know I use it more than I should that word: can’t. It should not be allowed. If you can’t do something, why? You need to figure out what the barrier is keeping you from achieving your goal. Do you need to train more, practice more, maybe you just…
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