735 research outputs found
How disruptions to our morning routines harm daily productivity, and what we can do about it
No full textAdvice for managers and employees on how to minimise disruptions to much-needed morning rituals - by Shawn T. McClean, Joel Koopman, Junhyok Yim, and Anthony C. Klot
Is working with artificial intelligence hampering your best-performing employees?
No full textConscientious employees—detail oriented, orderly, and hard-working—are considered better performers in the workplace. However, this belief may be based on 20th century evidence that ignores recent technological advances, especially artificial intelligence. Pok Man Tang, Joel Koopman, and Shawn McClean write that AI characteristics such as precision, detail orientation, and orderliness that overlap with the conscientious employee’s traits, and research shows that people prefer working with colleagues that possess complementary, not redundant, qualities as compared to their own
Book review: “The happiness advantage” by Shawn Achor
No full textRecensão crítica à obra de Shawn Achor, "The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology that Fuel Success and Performance at Work". New York: Crown Business, 2010Shawn Achor is an American consultant, author and researcher. He was a professor at Harvard University where he researched about the relation between happiness and success. His talk “The happy secret to better work” is one the most popular TED talk ever with more than seven millions views. Shawn’s research on happiness was published in the “Harvard Business Review” and other scientific journals.
The originality of this book is that it explains why and how we can be happy from a business point of view. The book is written with lots of humour but avoids the new age trends and book about happiness
On the receiving end of customer creativity: insights from approach-avoidance and interpersonal complementarity perspectives
No full textIncreasingly, transactions between firms and customers are typified by the co-creation of value, wherein customers play an active role in the development of new products and services. Over the past two decades, research on co-creation has flourished across multiple disciplines, largely highlighting its benefits for firms and customers. Importantly, though, while customer engagement in the creative process may be viewed positively by customers and improve organizational performance, it may not be experienced as universally positive by the service providers who must respond to it. To gain a more complete understanding of both the positive and negative sides of customer creativity, we take an approach-avoidance perspective to build a theoretical model explaining how and why customer creative behavior can lead to divergent responses by service providers. Specifically, we describe how creativity by customers can inspire service providers, driving them to act more prosocially toward customers in return. Simultaneously, customer creativity can cause performance anxiety in service providers, leading them to withdraw from their work. Adding nuance to these predictions, we draw from interpersonal complementary theory to explain why the approach-avoidance processes triggered by customer creativity should be contingent on service providers' creative-role identity. Across an experience-sampling field study (Study 1), a critical-incident experiment (Study 2), and a scenario-based experiment (Study 3), our results largely align with our theoretical model (overall N = 647). We close by discussing the theoretical and practical implications of our work
Efficacy of hair mineral analysis for assessing zinc status:
No full textThe objective of this research is to seek information on the efficacy of hair mineral analysis for assessing zinc status by determining the concentrations of zinc in hair from two anatomical locations, scalp and pubis, and from two keratinized tissues, hair and nail. This was accomplished using hair and nail samples from several individuals and analyzing those samples using atomic absorption spectroscopy. The analysis of the zinc concentration in scalp hair compared to the zinc in pubic hair yielded a p-value of 0.0471, a Pearson’s correlation coefficient of 0.301, a linear regression r2 value of 0.0904 using GraphPad, and a t value of 2.01. The analysis of the zinc concentration in scalp hair compared to the zinc concentration in finger nail yielded a p-value of 0.766 using GraphPad, a Pearson’s correlation coefficient of 0.108, a linear regression r2 value of 0.0117, and a t value of 0.307. The statistical analysis does not support a linear or non-linear correlation between the level of zinc in human scalp hair and human finger nail and does not support the existence of a linear correlation but indicates a possible non-linear relationship zinc concentrations in scalp hair and pubic hair. The existence of this non-linear relationship could indicate the presence of a regulated metabolic process for the deposition of zinc in these two keratinized tissues.M.S.Includes bibliographical references (p.54-56)by Shawn Michael Have
Prosopography Approaches and Applications: A Handbook
No full textGiovanni Ruffini (with Shawn Graham) is a contributing author, Network Analysis and Greco-Roman Prosopography”, pp. 325-336
Conceptualization of children and adolescents with Tourette syndrome and a complex presentation of comorbidity
No full textTourette Syndrome (TS) is a disorder that begins in childhood. Children and adolescents with TS are commonly affected by a complex picture of comorbid disorders. Psychological conceptualization and treatment of children and adolescents with TS is a challenge for many clinicians. In response to this challenge, this project serves as a Conceptualization Guide for mental health clinicians who are working with children and adolescents with TS. The Guide is intended to aid the psychological treatment of individuals with TS by providing detailed instructions on how to conceptualize a TS case. To do so, the Guide provides information that is intended to foster an understanding of the etiological and maintaining factors of reported problems. Also, the Guide describes a structured approach to assessing, formulating, and treatment planning for a TS case. This approach includes the administration of a detailed assessment questionnaire that consists of a General Questionnaire and five Modules that are administered based on clinical judgment of necessity. The General Questionnaire consists of questions that help the clinician to gain a comprehensive picture of the history and current functioning of the child with TS. The five modules address the following comorbidities: ADHD, OCD, Anxiety Disorders, Depression and Behavioral Problems. Lastly, the Guide discusses how the assessment questionnaire forms can be used in conjunction with a computer database to track individual client data on the various targeted problems as a means to measure treatment progress and results.Psy.DIncludes bibliographical referencesby Shawn Christopher Ewban
A comparative analysis of student use of The New York times print and digital formats:
No full textThis study compares how students use newspapers across digital and print formats and examines reader preferences. Studies have shown that when using online versions of newspapers, readers were less likely to follow “media cues” – aspects of a newspaper such as story placement, headline size, story size, or photographs, which cue readers that a story is important. This study compared use and preference of three formats of the New York Times – the traditional print version, online, and a “reader” program called the New York Times Reader. The researcher found that while students were more likely to follow media cues using the print version of the New York Times than they were using the online version, they were more likely to follow these cues using the NYT Reader than the online version. Participants showed a strong preference for using digital formats and overwhelmingly rejected the print version of the New York Times in comparison. The NYT Reader was the format most preferred by users even though they claimed the navigational experience was more similar to using a print paper than when they used the online version. This suggests the tactile nature of ink on paper and the student’s familiarity with computer interfaces are likely reasons the participants rejected the print paper but most preferred the digital format that replicated the print paper reading experience. Previous research that revealed the loss of control of gatekeepers in online formats should revisit the topic using different formats to attempt to determine what is most likely to attract readers to newspapers in their various formats.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 100-102)by Shawn P. Kilde
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
No full textA daughter’s love, and a mother’s absence—that is the theme the author, Shawn Jones, shares in her bittersweet story. This narrative reflects on the challenges, conflicts, and feelings that a child goes through when coping with not having a mother physically present. Jones describes how as a child she saw things a lot differently compared to her thoughts now as a young woman. She struggles with the idea of accepting her situation and resenting the mother who brought her life. However, through the help of her family, she realizes that she is no different than those she grew up with. This realization brings her closer to understanding and coping with her feelings
When conscientious employees meet intelligent machines: an integrative approach inspired by complementarity theory and role theory
No full textOver the past century, conscientiousness has become seen as the preeminent trait for predicting performance. This consensus is due in part to these employees’ ability to work with traditional 20th-century technology. Such pairings balance the systematic nature of conscientious employees with the technology’s need for user input and direction to perform tasks—resulting in a complementary match. However, the 21st century has seen the incorporation of intelligent machines (e.g., artificial intelligence, robots, and algorithms) into employees’ jobs. Unlike traditional technology, these new machines are equipped with the capability to make decisions autonomously. Thus, their nature overlaps with the orderliness subdimension of conscientious employees—resulting in a non-complementary mismatch. This calls into question whether the consensus about conscientious employees’ effectiveness with 20th-century technology applies to 21st-century jobs. Integrating complementarity and role theory, we refine this consensus. Across three studies using distinct samples (an experience sampling study, a field experiment, and an online experiment from working adults in Malaysia, Taiwan, and the United States), each focused on a different type of intelligent machine, we show not only that using intelligent machines has benefits and consequences, but, importantly, that conscientious (i.e., orderly) employees are less likely to benefit from working with them
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