Describe articles: Department of Industrial and Organizational Psychology

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Article 9
Marjan Gorgievski, and Arnold Bakker, employees of the Department of Industrial and Organizational Psychology at a university in the Netherlands, together with Wilmar Schaufeli, a member of the Department of Social and Organizational Psychology at the University of Utrecht, conducted the research (Gorgievski, Bakker & Schaufeli 83). As members of the critical departments in the respective universities, they possess the necessary knowledge and experience to carry out this research about the human resource.
The authors researched in the backdrop of an inquiry about what determined the good performance of salaried employees and the self-employed. Their research’s main aim was to promote knowledge of human resources, who are the stakeholders of this study. The research results influenced human resources by enlightening them that self-employed individuals had a higher work engagement and worked more excessively. Also, they ranked higher in motivational construct, task performance, and innovativeness, but ranked low in working compulsively. On the other hand, the salaried employees ranked lower in work engagement, working excessively, but ranked higher in working compulsively (Gorgievskia, Bakker& Schaufeli 91-93). Hence, through it, they gained practical knowledge on what to do to improve the performance of the salaried employees.
In my opinion, the article contains insightful information that I believe would be of benefit for the human resources department. The research has demonstrated that self-employed individuals have more passion at work and are highly motivated probably because they identify with the work they do, as their investment. On the other hand, it is clear that salaried individuals present minimal performance, perhaps because they look at their jobs as someone else’s investment. Therefore, if the human resources practitioners can utilize the insights outlined in this research to motivate their employees to consider their work as self-employed individuals do, they can facilitate the improvement of commitment and consequently improved performance.
Article 10
Taylor Peter Shawn is a Roger Digital Media journalist who specializes in economic issues, particularly touching on compensation issues in the workplace. For instance, on Canada’s overtime pay, the benefits of a little income inequality and benefits of an increase of temporary jobs for entry-level employees.
The article talks about overtime pay laws in Canada. These regulations affect employers the most as the primary stakeholders in this article. According to Taylor, in Canada, working overtime is considered taking care of business. The labor law states that an employee is supposed to work for 40-44 hours every week, whereby hours exceeding forty-four attracts overpay. Employers have always interpreted the law as only applying to employees paid hourly. The laws affect employers negatively as their failure to make a clear outline leads to employers such as KPMG and Scotiabank to incur a hefty price in millions settling lawsuits filed against them for failure to pay employees overtime, particularly the salaried employees that enjoy tremendous benefits (Taylo...