Occupational / Workplace Psychology

Employment Decisions

Michelle Luke, Katherine Carnelley, Elle Boag, Harriet Rosenthal and Angela Rowe - University of Sussex, UK.

Time to complete - 45 minutes.
Mar
19
2013

British participants are invited to participate in a study on individual decision-making processes in business settings. You will be asked to complete a variety of questionnaires, visualise a specific event and respond to a series of workplace scenarios. Participants must be British and over the age of 18 to participate in this study.

Emotional and Behavioral Strategies in Dealing with Difficulties at Work

Antje Schmitt - University of Kassel, Germany.

Time to complete - 15 minutes.
Mar
12
2013

This study investigates what emotional and behavioral strategies people may use in dealing with problems, difficulties or setbacks at work. Participation involves completing two short surveys. This first survey will take approximately 15 minutes to complete and there will be a brief survey (5 minutes) four weeks later.

Volunteerism for Non-profit Organizations

Aleka MacLellan and Kevin Kelloway - Saint Mary's University, Canada.

Time to complete - 15 minutes.
Mar
12
2013

This study involves completing a short online survey that will take approximately 10-15 minutes (depending on your speed). You will be asked questions about why you volunteer, the satisfaction you get from volunteering, as well as your feelings towards the non-profit organization you volunteer for.

Investigating the Factors Related to the Perception of a ‘Glass Ceiling’ in a Business Environment

Claire Down - Nottingham Trent University, UK.

Time to complete - 20 minutes.
Jan
21
2013

The aim of this study is to hghlight what factors may correlate to the perception of a glass ceiling in the workplace, in order to account for why gender differences may still occur within the executive levels of business.

Reinventing Proactive Personality

Bharati Belwalkar - Louisiana Tech University, USA.

Time to complete - 20 minutes.
Jan
21
2013

The purpose of the study is to create a new measure of proactive personality and to test its psychometric properties: reliability and validity. The study intends to test the new scale for its internal consistency, convergent/divergent validity, and criterion validity.

Exploratory Investigation on the Usage of Facebook in the Workplace

Julie Choi and Jeffrey Spence - University of Guelph, Canada.

Time to complete - 60 minutes.
Jun
26
2012

This is a two part study and is an exploratory investigation about Facebook in the workplace. Each participant will be asked to complete two surveys. The surveys will be distributed two weeks apart. You do not need Facebook to participate, but need to be employed.

Are you a Risk-taking Optimist? The Relationship between Optimism, the Propensity to take Risk and Entrepreneurship

Karen fox and Gorkan Ahmetoglu - Heythrop College, University of London, UK.

Time to complete - 10 minutes.
Feb
13
2012

he study is about measuring the potential role that optimism and risk taking behaviour has on entrepreneurial tendencies and entrepreneurial outcomes.

Disentangeling Passion and Behavioural Regualtion: One or Two Constructs

Thomas Curran - York St John University, UK.

Time to complete - 5 minutes.
Sep
20
2011

I am interested in the interrelationship of passion and behavioural regulation for work. If you work, and are over 18, then I invite you to complete this short questionnaire.

Personality, Mood, Emotions and Workplace Behaviour

Anani Gomes Akakpo - Goldsmiths University of London, UK.

Time to complete - 15 muinutes
Aug
9
2011

Researchers have been investigating the causes of workers behaviour for decades. Some found it to be related to the workers characteristics. These comprise personality and affective reactions (mood and emotion). One question remains: Which one can better explain workplace behaviour?

Are all Job Demands Bad? Employee Engagement and Burnout: A Cross-cultural Comparison of Japanese and UK Employees

Yuji Yotsukura - Aston Business School, UK.

Time to complete - 15 minutes.
Jul
14
2011

This study examine the impact of job resources and cultures (looking at values and Regulatory focus style) on the relationships between job demands and work engagement and burnout as well as several job-related outcomes. Previous research have shown inconsistent and conflicting findings on job demands-engagement relationships. This study further takes that argument suggesting that there exist good demands (so called Eustress) and bad demands (hindrance stressors). Comparison between Western context and Japanese context are also made where Japanese workers tend to show lowest engagement and highest burnout level among any other countries.

Participation of this survey is limited only to those who have some sort of work experience (including part-time, internship, full-time).
Some questions ask you to reflect on the past 2 month, however if you are currently not working, please think of when you used to work.

Self-Concept Clarity, Self-Concept Differentiation, and Response Processes: Exploring Self-Concept Characteristics and Personality Test Validity with Context-Specific Measurement

Marne Pomerance and Dr. Patrick Converse - Florida Institute of Technology, USA.

Time to complete - 1 hour.
Jun
9
2011

Examines individuals’ clarity during the application process.

Virtual Work Teams: A Role Play

Karin S Moser - Roehampton University London
Nov
4
2009

This is a study about the relationships between members of virtual teams to understand better how they work. You will take part in a role play and imagine that you are a member of staff in a tourism company. The travel consulting team is specialized in leisure and wellness vacationing and answering on-line customer requests

Testing a Theoretical Model of Privacy Pertaining to Location-Based Services

Lisa Thomas, Pam Briggs and Linda Little - Northumbria University
Oct
16
2009

This work aims to predict employee adoption of location-tracking services, and produce guidelines to aid developers who work in the location-tracking industry. This research will test a privacy model that purports to predict intentions to use location-tracking services

Attributional Ambiguity and Gender Discrimination: Effects on Full Time Employees

Julia Ferragamo & Dr Aarti Iyer - University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia
Aug
23
2009

This survey will ask you questions relating to your experiences at work, your perceptions of and feelings towards your workplace and your beliefs about your supervisor/s and other colleagues

Attitudes towards a Planned Merger

Dr Ilka Gleibs - University of Exeter
Nov
29
2008

The study is concerned with organizational members’ reactions towards a planned merger. The survey take approx. 10 minutes to complete and your contribution to the research will help in understanding people’s reaction in times of organizational change

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