MYW S02 Episode 04 – Bad Behavior at Work

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Mind Your Work

Jose Espinoza; Nicholas Bremner

35 episodes

9 months ago

Mind Your Work is a podcast about investigating and understanding the human aspects of work through science. Scientists have uncovered important and interesting insights about work that many of us don’t ever get to hear. Research on people at work is also advancing rapidly making it hard to keep up. The hosts, Nicholas Bremner and Jose Espinoza, are Industrial/Organizational Psychologists and they dive into the research aiming to inform, educate, and entertain. They sum up what scientists know, how it’s being applied, and how it could affect us in the future.

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MYW S02 Episode 04 – Bad Behavior at Work

Mind Your Work

24 minutes 32 seconds

6 years ago

MYW S02 Episode 04 – Bad Behavior at Work

On this
episode, Jose and Nicholas discuss the research on Counter-productive Work Behaviors
(CWBs). CWB is the umbrella term that covers a wide variety of behaviors that intentionally
harm the organization or other employees. We cover everything from theft and
fraud to the newest kind of CWB to enter the workplace, cyberloafing. Listen
and find out why firing the ‘bad apples’ is not enough and what you can do
instead.

Timestamps:

0:56: An
introduction to Counter-productive Work Behaviors and their cost

3:50: The costs
of CWBs to organizations

5:35: The
drivers of CWBs – Understanding the frustration-emotion link

8:42: What
about CWBs that are not driven just by frustration?

10:22:
Selecting out the ‘bad apples’ and why it’s not enough

13:50: A
summary of what we know and what can we do reduce CWBs

17:45: Cyberloafing:
The latest and most prevalent form of CWB

22:20: Wrapping
up and This Is Not Homework

Mentioned This Episode:

Our episodes on Personality (Learn about Honesty-Humility!)

Our episode on Burnout (Reduce bad behavior and maintain employee well-being)

Rescue Time – An app to analyze your own cyberloafing behavior!

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Credits:

Our intro and outro music is “Ingenuity” by Lee Rosevere, licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC 3.0). You can find more of Lee’s music at https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com/. Our transition music for this episode is "As I Was Saying” also by Lee; licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC 3.0).

Logo Artwork by Antonella Espinoza. Find her at @ellaspin on Twitter!