Few would expect to hear the death knoll at work, but 80% of people name their job as the main source of stress – an emotional state of tension that can have long-term negative effects on health.
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EQ in the Healthcare Industry
Patient safety is a major concern for the medical industry. Although hospitals have advanced systems to monitor and improve patient safety, they largely ignore one of the largest drivers of patient safety: emotional intelligence.
Drinks with Hogan | Bad Managers
In the sixth installment of our video series, Drinks with Hogan, Dr. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Hogan’s vice president of research and innovation, and HR iconoclast William Tincup discuss what to do with bad managers.
Mile High Certification Workshop
This workshop provides a comprehensive tutorial on three Hogan inventories – Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI); Hogan Development Survey (HDS); and Motives, Values, Preferences Inventory (MVPI). Participants attending both days and successfully completing the workshop will be certified to use the Hogan inventories.
SIOP 2014 Symposium: From Leader’s Personality to Employee Engagement
Extensive research highlights the importance of work engagement – employees’ morale and involvement with work – as determinant of individual and organizational performance. Large-scale studies show that engagement is positively correlated with a wide range of important business outcomes, such as organizational commitment, citizenship, innovation, and team performance, and negatively correlated with turnover intentions,… Read more »
Q&A with Dr. Hogan | The Role Personality Plays at Work
Dr. Robert Hogan spent his career working to prove that personality predicts workplace performance and helps businesses dramatically reduce turnover and increase productivity by hiring the right people, developing key talent, and evaluating leadership potential. Here, he discusses what role personality plays at work.
Miami Workshop Will Advance the Assessment and Interpretive Skills of Spanish-Speaking HR Professionals
Hosted by Compass Consulting, one of Hogan’s network of partners and distributors, the two-day Spanish-language certification workshop will take place from Tuesday, May 20, through Wednesday, May 21, 2014, at the Kovens Convention Center in Miami. Participants will learn to use three Hogan inventories:
SIOP 2014 Symposium: A Critical Review of Mechanical Turk as a Research Tool
As the pace of innovation increases, so does the need to test innovations to determine their worth. Items enhancing quality of life are widely adopted. For example, software such as SAS and SPSS allow us to instantly run analyses that would have previously taken days or weeks. More recently, online data collection has replaced… Read more »
TED@NYC: The Power of Negative Thinking
Bookstore self-help sections are laden with volumes telling us to lean in, act confident, or fake it until we make it. Although research shows there are benefits to glass-half-full thinking, it also links overconfidence to outcomes ranging from increased traffic accidents to the recent financial crisis.
SIOP 2014 Symposium: The Emergence of Abusive Supervisors. What Makes Them Mean?
The discipline of leadership is highly romanticized (Meindl, 1985). In particular, the popular press sensationalizes leaders by assigning them heroic qualities and crediting them with herculean feats of success. Common observation, however, suggests great people are almost always bad people (Acton, 1887) and that power is abused with surprising regularity (Kellerman, 2004). A relatively… Read more »