Organizational Culture and Climate

Organizational Commitment

admin — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 23:07:02 +0000

Organizational Commitment
Posted on November 28, 2023

What is organizational commitment and how is it conceptualized and measured? Read this umbrella summary to learn more about this important job attitude.

Job Satisfaction

admin — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 21:45:51 +0000

Job Satisfaction
Posted on November 28, 2023

Having satisfied employees is associated with many positive outcomes in the workplace. Read this umbrella summary to learn more about job satisfaction and the individual and organizational factors that are related to it.

Findings from Seven Years of Child Welfare Workforce Interventions

admin — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 22:31:35 +0000

Findings from Seven Years of Child Welfare Workforce Interventions
Posted on August 21, 2023

This 2-page summary highlights key findings from the QIC-WD's workforce interventions and summarizes the additional supports provided to child welfare workforce professionals from 2016 - 2023.

Meaningful Work

admin — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 18:50:47 +0000

Meaningful Work
Posted on August 21, 2023

What does it mean for work to be meaningful and what can organizations do to help facilitate it? Read this umbrella summary to learn more.

Training Transfer

admin — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 23:04:23 +0000

Training Transfer
Posted on November 30, 2022

What factors help learners apply what they learned in training to their jobs? Read this umbrella summary to learn more about the individual differences, work environment characteristics, and training design practices that are related to training transfer.

Work-Family Conflict

admin — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 19:17:27 +0000

Work-Family Conflict
Posted on September 28, 2022

What happens when employees face conflicting pressures from work and family? Read this umbrella summary to learn more about work-family conflict and how it relates to employee outcomes.

Work-Family Enrichment

admin — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 14:00:36 +0000

Work-Family Enrichment
Posted on September 28, 2022

How can experiences at work and with family positively impact each other? Read this umbrella summary to learn more about work-family enrichment.

Employee Fit

admin — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 21:32:59 +0000

Employee Fit
Posted on August 24, 2022

Fit: What is person-environment fit? How does it relate to recruiting outcomes and employee attitudes and behaviors? Read this summary to learn more.

The Child Welfare Workforce Crisis – What We’re Hearing from the Field

admin — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 20:27:53 +0000

The Child Welfare Workforce Crisis – What We’re Hearing from the Field
Posted on June 20, 2022

This blog post highlights the concerns state child welfare and human resources leaders from 29 states have about the child welfare workforce, as shared in recent meetings.

Diversity and Inclusion Climates

admin — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 21:58:28 +0000

Diversity and Inclusion Climates
Posted on January 12, 2022

It’s important for employees to feel that everyone is treated fairly and valued, regardless of their gender, race, ethnicity, age, or other social identities. This Umbrella Summary describes the available evidence about diversity and inclusion climates.

Workplace Incivility

admin — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 18:37:18 +0000

Workplace Incivility
Posted on December 15, 2021

What conditions make it more likely that employees will treat each other with disrespect? Read this umbrella summary to learn more about workplace incivility.

Abusive Supervision

admin — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 21:17:48 +0000

Abusive Supervision
Posted on June 23, 2021

What supervisory behaviors are considered abusive, and how do they relate to employees’ job attitudes and behaviors? Read this Umbrella Summary to learn more.

Milwaukee Progress Update - Identifying Barriers & Working through Solutions

admin — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 17:07:28 +0000

Milwaukee Progress Update - Identifying Barriers & Working through Solutions
Posted on October 26, 2020

The Division of Milwaukee Child Protective Services (DMCPS) is testing a model to amplify the staff’s collective voice to create solutions to agency challenges which then can feed into changing the organizational culture.

Strategies to Improve Child Welfare Worker Retention

admin — Mon, 18 May 2020 19:42:34 +0000

Strategies to Improve Child Welfare Worker Retention
Posted on May 18, 2020

Many organizations & teams are looking for answers to the challenge of worker turnover in child welfare. This blog post highlights research and strategies described in several publications and discusses the connection to the work being done by the QIC-WD.

Texas Decreased Caseworker Turnover. The QIC-WD is Implementing and Testing Some of Their Strategies and Building Evidence

admin — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 22:07:05 +0000

Texas Decreased Caseworker Turnover. The QIC-WD is Implementing and Testing Some of Their Strategies and Building Evidence
Posted on January 28, 2020

The QIC-WD is dedicated to building evidence. Foundational work in the early years of the Center included combing the literature from multiple fields (e.g., business, education, industrial-organizational psychology) to inform strategies to strengthen the