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🔒 Give Solicited Advice: People Are More Likely to Take It
Giving advice people will be receptive of can be a rather precarious task, especially in the workplace. It can be rather challenging to get a boss, colleague, or employee to utilize your advice, even if your advice is high-quality. Advice isn’t always met with a happy receiver. Not everyone wants advice or input from others.…
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🔒 How to Protect Employees Against the Monday Blues
The Monday Blues is the idea that employees “start the week with a negative attitude” because the weekend has ended and the workweek has just begun (Pindek et al., 1449). This bad mood increases sensitivity to work stressors, specifically incivility and work constraints (1449). Past research has shown that workplace incivility can lead to “decreased…
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🔒 Why You Hate Your Job on Mondays
Buzz, buzz. You reluctantly turn off your alarm clock and look at your phone. It’s Monday. You let out a sigh. The weekend has finally come to an end. A sense of dread washes over you as you think about all the work that needs to get done. When you get to work everyone…
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🔒 Avoid Giving Out Illegitimate Tasks
If you want happy employees, avoid giving out illegitimate tasks. Illegitimate tasks are tasks that go against “what can be expected in a given role or position” (1637). These tasks “are incongruent with an employee’s occupation or professional identity” (1637). Illegitimate tasks can be separated into two categories: unreasonable tasks and unnecessary tasks. Unreasonable…
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🔒 Beautiful People: Perceived as More Hireable
It turns out beautiful people have an unfair advantage at work. Research has found that attractive individuals have a higher pay, are promoted more often, and are more likely to receive a positive work evaluation (Tu, 120). One reason for this is that society prefers attractive people over unattractive people (120). It’s also well-known that…
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🔒 13 Signs Your Employee is Going to Quit
A study conducted by Timothy M. Gardner, and his fellow colleagues found that employees who plan on quitting emit observable pre-quitting behaviors (3231; 3250). The researchers specifically tested 13 pre-quitting behaviors, and found that these behaviors do in fact predict future turnover (3251). Results from the study found that “a one-unit increase in PQBs…