Current Development in Psychometric Tests
By Adrian Furnham
Finding the right person who is well suited for a job position is vital in any organisation’s success. There are numbers of...
Business Teams: Bad, Sad, and Mad… and How to Fix Them
By Georgie Fienberg and Adrian Furnham
If you want the best from your car, it helps to have some idea of how it all works....
Belt Up and Belt Out: Corporate Benefits of Psychological Safety
By Adrian Furnham and Dr Amanda Potter
At your last departmental meeting, did you join in, or did you zone out? Did you buckle down,...
Laugh and the World Complains to HR: Humour at Work
By Adrian Furnham
But it was just “workplace banter”! Another pale, stale, frail male attempts to defend himself against a range of accusations of “inappropriateness”...
Virtual Working: When It Comes to Sensitive Conversations, the Medium Affects the Message
By Dr Melissa Dunlop and Professor Adrian Furnham
The remote-working era brought us many challenges in communicating effectively with our fellow humans via a computer...
A Beauty Premium and a Plainness Penalty: Attractiveness at Work
By Adrian Furnham
Are physically attractive people seriously advantaged at work?
Are they more likely to be selected, promoted, and given higher salaries? Does being physically...
The Psychology of Start-Ups
By Adrian Furnham
Every generation likes to believe that they are different from those that came before them – “new and improved” as advertisers like...
Pay Secrecy
By Adrian Furnham
Even with today’s rapidly progressing society, there still exists a certain stigma towards the topic of salary or compensation. Employees have taken...
Clothes at Work: Dress for Success
By Adrian Furnham
Your clothes may be making a statement – but are they really saying what you think they are saying?
The way we dress...
The Drama Queen Leader: Theatricality and Inappropriate Behaviour
By Adrian Furnham
Friendly, dramatic, and attention-seeking, they are difficult to miss. You may find them entertaining in social settings, but what happens when you...
Tyrant Leadership: Putin and the Psychology of Power
By John Taylor and Adrian Furnham
Vladimir Putin appears to be firmly in control of his country, able to bend it to his will and...
Why Many Modern Psychology Test Publishers Fail
By Adrian Furnham
In the midst of the razzmatazz surrounding AI, we hear a lot about its potential for the recruitment process. But is it...
“Your Call is Important to Us”: The Business Psychology of Queuing
By Adrian Furnham
One sure way to disgruntle your customers is to oblige them to fritter away their valuable time in queues – whether in...
The Psychology of Greed
By Adrian Furnham
As one of the seven cardinal sins, greed is a trait no one wants to be accused of. While people detest and...
Whither Talent?
By Adrian Furnham
To what end can talent be defined, sought out and developed? In this article Andrew Furnham discusses the different ideas of what...
Authenticity at Work: Be Honest, is it a Good Thing?
By Adrian Furnham
It is often said that honesty is the best policy. But if we apply that maxim invariably and unquestioningly, does that automatically...
Jobs – and What They Taught Me
By Adrian Furnham
A good education is all very well, but there are some lessons you can’t learn in the classroom. Adrian Furnham recounts his...
The Psychology of Connection and Connectedness
By John Cooper and Adrian Furnham
The need to belong to, and be accepted by, groups is – for better or for worse – a...
Careering Off Track: The New World of Work
By Adrian Furnham
Today, the idea of a ‘job for life’ is, for many people, neither possible nor desirable. The concept of the career has,...
People Assessment in the Digital Age
By Adrian Furnham
How have technical, social, economic and legal forces influenced the business of people assessment? New technologies used in assessment include smartphone and...
Fitting the (dark-side, problematic) person to the (ideal) job
By Adrian Furnham
We might not care to admit it, but most of us have a dark side. Although it's tempting to view that as...
The Psychology of Disenchantment
By Adrian Furnham
Justice has always been a major issue among people. Especially in an organisational context, where many employees with different values, interests, and...
Counterwork Behaviours
By Adrian Furnham
Counterwork behaviours – CWBs – include fraud, misconduct, and work avoidance cost organisations billions every year. In this article, Professor Furnham discusses...
The Psychology of Christmas
By Adrian Furnham
The "season to be jolly" is once more looming, and with it comes the uncomfortable sensation that one really ought to start...
Trust, Treason and Treachery: The Psychology of Spying
By Adrian Furnham and John Taylor
“In the world of intelligence, it is trust not betrayal which dominates the mindset”
What exactly do spies do? What...
Have You Ever Met a Psychopath? The Anatomy of the Corporate Psychopath
By Adrian Furnham
When we think of psychopaths, we think of blood-thirsty crazed killers who spend their lives in chains at maximum security prisons after...
Algorithmic Attachment: How AI-Based Employee Monitoring Shapes Workplace Trust, Autonomy, and Well-being
By Dr Madeleine Roantree and Professor Adrian Furnham
Although AI-driven monitoring and performance tools are designed to optimise productivity, they may have an adverse effect...
Distractions, Decisions and Domesticity: The Pleasures and Pitfalls of WFH
By Adrian Furnham
Whilst the number of teleworkers increased linearly since the beginning of the millennium, it has been the Covid-19 pandemic and the compulsory...
Old and New Takes on Selection Interviews
By Adrian Furnham
Nearly all selection processes involve the famous trio: application form, references and interview. Both the selectors and the candidates seem to like...
Select out: Why selection often goes wrong and what to do about it
By Adrian Furnham
The process of selecting people, in business as in social relationships, tends to focus on the “good” characteristics we are looking for....
Savvy and Skillful: A New Look at Office Politics
By Adrian Furnham
Until recently the concept of office politics was exclusively associated with dirty tricks and Machiavellian manipulation. But recently psychologists using the concept...
Arrogance, Hubris, and Narcissism: The Overconfident Leader
By Adrian Furnham
There is Freudian psychological and psychiatric business literature on narcissism. We are now used to discussing our politicians as well as business...
Algorithmic Attachment: How AI-Based Employee Monitoring Shapes Workplace Trust, Autonomy, and Well-being
By Madeleine Roantree and Adrian Furnham
Although AI-driven monitoring and performance tools are designed to optimise productivity, they may have an adverse effect on how...
The Impostor Syndrome: Fraudulence, Fear of Success, and Perfectionism
By Adrian Furnham
Many of us, at one time or another, may have thought, “One day, they’re going to see through me.” If you’re one...
What is Resilience?
By Adrian Furnham
Can resilience be taught? If so, how? And are some organisations more resilient than others? This article considers how the notion of...
Why Go to University? Serious Vocational Guidance
By Adrian Furnham
University is often treated as the default path to success, yet its value is increasingly questioned. Adrian Furnham challenges conventional assumptions by...
Creativity at Work
By Adrian Furnham
Creativity is not an easy topic to research and few serious scientists conduct work in the area. First, creativity is difficult to...
The Passive-Aggressive Individual
By Adrian Furnham
You must have met a few or maybe you are working with one right now. Who are passive-aggressive individuals and what makes...
Where’s Your Sense of Justice?
By Adrian Furnham
Is the world a just place – or just a place? Then again, should we just pessimistically expect the unjust and so...
The Great Resignation
By Adrian Furnham
Many believe that the young generation is not interested in working, with some calling them the Lazy Generation. The concept of the...
