Most organisations try to improve the wellbeing of their employees by reducing problems. The assumption that if issues are addressed then employees will naturally feel better at work. But wellbeing doesn’t just improve if we focus on only what’s wrong. The global level of employee wellbeing has fallen to 33% after steadily increasing since 2016 and this raises an important …
4-Part Reliability Series • Session 3 • Applied Reliability Reliability Across Contexts: Forms, Raters, and Time Learn how reliability is assessed when testing conditions change across forms, raters, and time. Reliability is not only about internal consistency. In real assessment practice, professionals often need to evaluate whether scores hold across alternative forms, across human judgements, and across repeated administrations. This …
4-Part Reliability Series • Session 2 • Advanced Psychometrics Reliability Beyond Alpha Learn Omega-based reliability and Item Response Theory in a way that sharpens professional judgement, not just technical vocabulary. A lot of professionals stop at Cronbach’s Alpha. Serious ones do not. This session is designed for those who want to move past basic psychometric language and understand how more …
Social integration is either realised or restricted within teams. The dramaturgical theory explains that a diverse team’s success is more dependent on how its members are presented to their coworkers than on the individual characteristics of each member. Teams are seen as a relational arena in which leaders can negotiate the intricate differences when integrating stigmatised people within a team. …
Often, when you start out in your career, nobody warns you that the technical skills you worked so hard to build will only get you so far. What differentiates star performers from others is “trust”. And that trust is built not in the big loud moments. It is built in silence, in the small, consistent, often unglamorous ones that one …
Our workplaces are becoming more age-diverse than before. To ensure that the workplaces remain effective and productive, it is extremely important to monitor the impact of age-diversity in leadership and team communication. Now, leaders are typically sensitized with required communication skills to ensure that they regularly communicate to provide directions to the team. However, the age gap often leads to …
The economic environment has been unstable for sometime now and hence, employees are facing high levels of career insecurity. These stressors can have serious risks to psychological well-being as career insecurity brings a perceived loss of control. Additionally, job insecurity may also reduce engagement at work and these difficulties are frequently exacerbated in some groups. According to Srivastava and Mohaley …
Transformational leadership is people-focused and participative, it tries to inspire and develop people under the leadership by focusing on values and long-term goals. Conversely, directive leadership is task-focused and provides structure along with clear instructions that are necessary for coordination and transactional leadership relies on exchange of rewards or punishments to motivate followers. Then there is the laissez-faire leadership which …
Imagine a leader not as a flawless machine but as a captain of a ship. When a storm brews at their home port, does it make them more empathetic or a distracted and irritable one? For years, management experts have debated whether home-life stress drains a leader’s “battery” or sensitizes them to the struggles of their team. A study by …
When a leader leaves an organisation the focus often comes on the paperwork like the updated organisational chart or new email signatures. But the most crucial part of any transition is not handing the position to someone else, rather it is the aftershock that is felt psychologically by everyone who is involved in the company which causes resistance for the …
