Employee Characteristics

Organizational Commitment
What is organizational commitment and how is it conceptualized and measured? Read this umbrella summary to learn more about this important job attitude.
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Job Satisfaction
Having satisfied employees is associated with many positive outcomes in the workplace. Read this umbrella summary to learn more about job satisfaction and the individual and organizational factors that are related to it.
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Turnover
Turnover in the workplace can come with many negative consequences. Read this umbrella summary to learn more about what turnover is, why it’s important, and what factors are associated with greater turnover in the workplace.
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Job Crafting
In what ways do employees adapt their work tasks and environment? Read this umbrella summary to learn more about job crafting and its outcomes.
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Personality Tests
How are personality tests used by organizations and what traits do they typically measure? Read this umbrella summary to learn more about both the strengths and challenges associated with personality testing in the workplace.
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Career Interests
What are career interests and how does the fit between one’s interests and job tasks relate to work behaviors and attitudes? Read this umbrella summary to learn about how career interests are categorized and measured and what research has to say.
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What Can Child Welfare Leaders Do to Improve Job Satisfaction?
What can child welfare leaders do to create a satisfied, productive workforce when the work is stressful, complex, and challenging? This QIC-Tip draws from our extensive collection of Umbrella Summaries to help answer this question.
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Training Transfer
What factors help learners apply what they learned in training to their jobs? Read this umbrella summary to learn more about the individual differences, work environment characteristics, and training design practices that are related to training transfer.
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Counterproductive Work Behavior
What does research say about harmful employee behaviors? This umbrella summary describes the available evidence about counterproductive work behaviors.
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Organizational Citizenship Behavior
What does it mean to be a good organizational citizen? Read this summary to learn more about the outcomes and antecedents of organizational citizenship behaviors.
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