Marie-Hélène Budworth

I read an interesting article recently about fun and learning.  It was written by Tews, Michel, and Noe and published in the Journal of Vocational Behavior.  The general finding was that fun activities at work promote learning from one another in informal ways, while having a manager who promotes fun encourages learning from oneself.  In […]

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I am working on a submisison to one of the largest conferences in the management area, the Academy of Management, to be held in Boston in August.  In this research, my colleagues Jennifer Harrison and Mike Halinski and I followed a sample of 142 people who were actively job seeking over a three-week period.  We […]

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  For the past few years, I have attended a conference at Wharton at the University of Pennsylvania each spring.  It is always interesting and energizing. Given that it is a practitioner oriented conference, it gives me a chance to hear from leaders in various fields.  This year’s keynotes included Mary Bara, CEO of GM, […]

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Over the past year, I have spent much of my time pondering the performance management function within organizations.  This is the topic that I am asked to speak on, consult about, or write about the most.  As you may recognize from earlier Blogs, my interest in performance mangament is indirect.  I have a longstaning interest […]

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Summer is here!  And no, I do not have the summer off.  Teaching is only a part of what I do.  In fact, it is supposed to represent just over 1/3 of my commitment to the university.  When I am not teaching, I am either conducting research or supporting the functioning of the university by […]

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Last year my former graduate student and current research colleague Jennifer Harrison and I followed a group of new graduates during the early phases of their job search. We collected a set of measures at planned intervals to capture their progress and experience during the process.  In particular, we were interested in what personal characteristics provided […]

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I read somewhere that there is no past, present, and future only memory, perception, and anticipation.  Despite my best efforts to track down this quote, I cannot find the source.  However, I find the message quite powerful all the same.  There has been no other time when this idea has been more obvious to me […]

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A phenomenon has been observed in the social sciences whereby people who initially behave in a moral way subsequently exhibit behaviors that are immoral, unethical, or otherwise problematic.  The tendency has been demonstrated in a range of important contexts such as hiring, charitable donations, and consumer behaviour.  For example, if Tom donates to charity today, […]

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I have been working on a series of studies with my co-author, Dr. Sara Mann from the University of Guelph.  Together we have had some really interesting experiences looking at migrant workers on farms in Ontario. Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker program gets a lot of bad press.  I will not review the criticisms here as […]

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I did a doodling workshop last Friday. It was offered by Carolyn Ellis of Brilliance Mastery.  It was creative and fun and engaging; a great way to spend a Friday.  I took the workshop largely because I enjoy being creative and wanted to find ways to inject some creativity into my work life.  I have […]

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