Workplace Well-being and Remote Work

Flashcards covering key concepts from the lecture notes, including perspectives on Workplace Well-being Revolution (WWR), leadership, minority status at work, research methodologies, and remote work.

What are the three perspectives on the Workplace Well-being Revolution (WWR)?

The 'progress' perspective, the 'soft domination' perspective, and the 'backfire' perspective.

According to the 'progress' perspective, what does the WWR indicate about organizations?

Organizations and management are becoming more caring and humane, representing progress for humanity.

What is the key message of the 'soft domination' perspective regarding the WWR?

WWR is a new and more insidious way for organizations, especially those with lots of money, to intensify their control of workers.

What is a modern Panopticon and how does it relate to WWR?

A hypothetical prison consisting of a ring of cells with a central watch tower. WWR mimics this by encouraging rigorous self-monitoring turning every worker into their own inspector.

What is the central message of the 'backfire' perspective on WWR and mental health discourses?

WWR and broader societal discourses about mental health make people hypersensitive to psychological discomfort and distress, adversely affecting their resilience.

What is the Prevalence Inflation Hypothesis?

Increased awareness efforts -> Improved recognition and overinterpretation -> Increased rates of mental health problems

What reasons underlie why workers 'follow' their 'leaders' in work settings?

They are being paid to follow, power hierarchies exist, and there is a fear of punishments.

Define 'misleadership'.

When people misleadingly cloak management in the language and concepts of leadership.

According to Michael A. Hogg, what leadership style do people prefer when uncertain about their group's identity?

A declarative, assertive, and perhaps even authoritarian leadership communication style.

What is the 'think leader, think man' bias?

People's ILTs tend to emphasize stereotypically masculine attributes.

What does critical reflexivity mean?

The attempt to place one's premises into question, to suspend the 'obvious', to listen to alternative framings of reality and to grapple with the comparative outcomes of multiple standpoints…this means an unrelenting concern with the blinding potential of the 'taken for granted'…we must be prepared to doubt everything we have accepted as real, true, right, necessary or essential

Define Minority Stress.

Minority stress is (a) unique…minority stress is additive to general stressors that are experienced by all people…(b) chronic…minority stress is related to relatively stable underlying social and cultural structures; and (c) socially based…it stems from social processes, institutions, and structures beyond the individual…

What is the 'Queen Bee' phenomenon?

The stereotype that female bosses are worse than male bosses.

According to Meyer (2007), what are the elements of minority stress?

Unique, chronic, and socially based stress experienced by minorities.

What are the two main types of Organizational Behavior (OB) research?

Empirical Study and Non-Empirical Study.

What are the two subtypes of non-empirical studies?

Meta-research and Conceptual/Theoretical

What is G.I.G.O. in the context of research?

'Garbage In, Garbage Out': If research was conducted poorly, the results will be equally poor.

What is Occam's Razor?

The answer that requires the fewest assumptions is generally the correct one.

What are the three types of research design mentioned in relation to a study?

Interview-based study, Longitudinal survey, and experiment.

what is Smart Working?

work flexibility without restraints

According to Atkin et al. (2023), how does working from home affect productivity?

The productivity of workers randomly assigned to work from home is 18% lower than that of the workers assigned to work from office.

According to Bloom et al. (2023), how did hybrid work affect Managers?

“In contrast to [non-managers], managers were less likely to volunteer, less likely to work from home on [their] eligible days, predicted a negative average impact of hybrid on productivity, and saw increased attrition rates under hybrid.

What does Downes et al. (2023) suggest regarding managers and remote work?

…rather than specifying outputs and leaving workers to it, managers should expect to have a more personalized and connected approach to managing remote staff. This may require more time and effort than managing co-located staff.”

What is the significance of organizing OB research?

Allows you to develop a 'centrepiece' that conveys the basic answers to your research question.

What are the important things to consider when evaluating OB research?

Fit between the question and what the study is about, Limitations of the study, Sample sizes, Measures used in the study.