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UrduAbstract This research aims to address two questions: (1) how can gamification strategies increase success of e-training systems and enhance employees’ information security and data protection self-efficacy? and (2) do gamified e-training systems improve employees’ information security and data protection…
Tag: Employee Behavior
The surprising effects of creativity boosting for low-power workers
Power often boosts an employee’s creativity because being powerful liberates the individual from constraints, such as worrying that their ideas will be rejected. However, new research shows that employees who are not in positions of power can become more creative when given time to “warm up” to a task by engaging in the creative task more than once.
FSU researcher: Passion can fuel success or leave workers’ tanks empty
The fires of passion can propel employees toward success but can also cause them to flame out, a study by a Florida State University researcher has found. Wayne Hochwarter, the Melvin T. Stith Sr. Professor in Business Administration at FSU’s College of Business, said passion is a definite plus in employees, but it doesn’t guarantee results.
Working from home has benefits, drawbacks for employee wellbeing
Remote jobs can help workers craft more satisfying lives, with higher psychological well-being and work engagement, but only if that work occurs during regularly contracted hours, according to new Cornell University ILR School research.
Survey results: Having a higher purpose promotes happiness, lowers stress
When a company commits in writing to a statement of higher purpose, a new survey shows that it promotes the employees’ well-being, more happiness and even lower stress from the COVID-19 pandemic.
And when the workers write their own, the effects are even more substantial.
Research Shows Happy Workplace, Mood Drives Employee Charitable Giving
As companies increasingly prioritize charitable spending and promote employee-directed giving, new research finds employee moods have a lot to do with the effectiveness of an organization’s philanthropic efforts.
Workplace theft is contagious (and strategic)
Three researchers from Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis and one from Said Business School at Oxford University have completed a study of workplace theft among restaurant workers that details, for the first time, how such stealing is contagious — and new restaurant workers are particularly susceptible. This may represent a workplace pattern where employees steal or cause their company greater unseen losses.