Work Science Center Podcast WorkScienceCenter

Host, Sibley Lyndgaard, speaks with Dr. Dorien Kooij, Professor at Tilburg University School of Social and Behavioral Sciences about the benefits of job crafting and proactivity in the workforce as well as the potential benefits that these topics offer for older workers.

Host, Corey Tatel, speaks with Dr. Chris Cerasoli about informal learning at work and its importance in the modern day work context. Dr. Cerasoli is currently a Senior Talent Analytics Consultant at UnitedHealth Group and has previously worked as a consultant at the Group for Organizational Effectiveness and as an adjunct professor at the University of Hartford and at the University of Albany.

Host, Keaton Fletcher speaks with Ruth Kanfer, Professor of Industrial-Organizational Psychology at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Director of the Work Science Center. They discuss all things motivation, what we know and where we need to go.

Host, Elizabeth Moraff, speaks with Dr. Gretchen Spreitzer, a professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. Dr. Spreitzer has focused her work on empowering employees and on positive leadership in organizations. She will soon publish a chapter on “new worlds of work” and speak on alternative work arrangements, focusing on how more employees will be shifting away from a traditional 9-5, 40 hours a week job in a specified location.

Host, Keaton Fletcher, talks with Richard Landers, John P. Campbell Distinguished Professor of Industrial-Organizational Psychology at the University of Minnesota, and the brain behind NeoAcademic, a blog covering a range of topics related to I-O psychology. They discuss the future of I-O psychology in the modern workforce and ways to integrate I-O with modern technological advances available to our field.