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11Sep2012

Why do we work, and so hard?

  • By Ian Bradley
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According to a recent American Community Survey, the percentage of professionals working more than 50 hours per week has grown from 34% in 1997 to 38% in 2006.  If Aristotle saw these figures, he would say that we can’t be happy or worse, truly free. In the classic Greek tradition, the only people doing anything
25Aug2011

Working at the Beach

  • By Ian Bradley
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A senior telecom VP who came to my office for help starting a new career related the following: I was at the beach with my family and found myself doing something that for all my career I swore never to do – work.  Not only did I work, but I actually enjoyed doing it without
10Nov2010

Procedural Justice

  • By Ian Bradley
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As a reader of various scholarly journals in Occupational Psychology, I have often been struck by the seemingly amorphous nature of some of our concepts.  One clear example is the term organizational climate- a concept for which we all have an innate feel for, but a concept that academicians apply multiple definitions. The term has
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