Psychology in the Workplace - Articles - Page 47

Florida workers stressed out about hurricanes

Study finds high anxiety related to possibility of storms

July 9, 2013

Recent uneventful hurricane seasons have done little to calm Florida workers’ fear of hurricanes, according to a new study by Wayne Hochwarter, the Jim Moran Professor of Business Administration at the Florida State University College of Business.

Every safety pro’s headache: conflict resolution

Dave Johnson

June 25, 2013

Wednesday afternoon at ASSE’s Safety 2013 features a topic every safety professional deals with at some point or another, as described by the session title: “Conflict Management Strategies for the Real World.”

Mental health needs to take its seat at the table

Separation from physical health concerns needs to end

June 20, 2013

Mental health professionals need to be part of primary care teams to ensure that patients get complete care that addresses both mental and physical health, according to the head of the American Psychology Association (APA). In a panel hosted recently by the White House’s National Conference on Mental Health, Norman B. Anderson, PhD, said the U.S. needs to end the traditional separation of substance abuse and mental health problems from physical health problems.

Study: work environment affects workers’ mental health

Assignments without resources, conflicting roles cause distress

June 12, 2013

Employees who face high emotional demand and conflicting roles are more likely to report psychological distress — placing them at higher risk of mental health disorders and reduced productivity, reports a study in the June Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, official publication of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM).

Safety processes need constant reinforcement

Timothy Ludwig Ph.D.

June 7, 2013

Consider your safety process. Certainly your safety management systems such as your procedures, rules, reporting systems, inspections, hazard identification, safety training and the like act as a sort of foundation and structure that we hope will reduce hazards and associated risk

Psychologically safe: Address conditions & states of mind

A company’s culture can be simplistically described as what an organization says it values and how it acts on these values.

Judith Erickson Ph.D.

June 7, 2013

During the past 20 years there has been increasing evidence of the role that corporate, or organizational, culture plays in determining safety performance.

Management methods that do more harm than good

E. Scott Geller

June 7, 2013

Let’s start this discussion of safety bullying by talking about discipline.

Face-to-face connections lead to employee engagement

Brian Galonek

June 7, 2013

This article will focus on the first pillar — employee engagement — a fundamental necessity without which safety improvements are difficult at best and a good safety culture is virtually impossible.

How are you doing with innovation?

The value of "forced collaboration"

Dave Johnson

May 30, 2013

The American Industrial Hygiene Association® (AIHA) and the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists® (ACGIH) kicked off the American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Expo (AIHce) 2013 in Montreal, Canada, with a dynamic presentation by Frans Johansson, CEO of The Medici Group in New York, NY.

Will OSHA ever take on job stress?

A "complicated" subject

May 22, 2013

The short answer, according to agency chief Dr. David Michaels, who was asked the question in a Q&A session Tuesday morning, is NO. Dr. Michaels was emphatic on that point. “We have too much on our plate now,” he said.