This summer at Villanova, our Human Resources Development program will be holding a 1.5 credit workplace violence course, taught by Dr. Lawrence Cozzens. This course will outline the different types of violence in the workplace, and what HR's role is in predicting, preventing and responding to these incidences. There are some common misconceptions around the topic of workplace violence. Myth 1: Violence in the workplace is limited to physical attacks. There are several acts

This past week, three VUHRD faculty members had the opportunity to travel to Chicago for the SIOP Annual Conference. SIOP is the Society for Industrial-Organizational (I-O) Psychology. As many of you know, the Graduate HRD Program at Villanova is a part of the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, formerly called the Department of Psychology. Many of the faculty members working in the program hold Ph.D.'s in I-O psychology. According to SIOP's website, "Industria

Megan Peiffer, a Graduate Assistant in the VUHRD program, will be graduating in May after two years with us. During her time in the program, she worked as an intern at SAP. SAP recognized Megan for her great work and ambition and accepted her into the Early Talent Program in SAP's HR department. Although we will miss her here at VUHRD, we couldn't be more excited for her! In this post, Megan shares her experiences as she begins the program. "WOW" is the only word to express

Last night, 60 Minutes featured a story on the gender pay gap and the efforts of Salesforce to lead by example to close this gap. This issue is important and one that every HR professional should be paying attention to, as it will affect and already is affecting, every organization in business today. If you as an HR professional are not thinking about terms like pay equality, gender parity, unconscious bias, and even #MeToo, I guarantee you, your employees are. Rather than

This year VUHRD connected with Bruce Marable of Employee Cycle through social media. Bruce is co-founder and CEO of Employee Cycle which offers a user-friendly HR dashboard and consulting for small and medium-sized organizations. Employee Cycle turns workforce data into a shareable and informative dashboard, providing real-time insights around the employee life- cycle. VUHRD was thrilled to have Bruce attend our Annual Networking Reception this week to meet us in person! (

With the VUHRD networking event only two days away, we are just about ready for all of our attendees! As you may know, this year's Annual Networking Reception is centered around businesses bettering the world and HR's role in CSR. We couldn't be more excited about the Social Impact Project we have prepared to exemplify this theme! This year's event will include a social impact project benefiting Dawn's Place. Guests will have an opportunity to participate in this project in

Who doesn’t want to be healthier and happier? Of course, these are goals that everyone wants to achieve. However, they are harder goals to conquer than people might think. The good news is that there is a science to wellness at work, and VUHRD Professor, Dr. Katina Sawyer wants to help spread the word about research-based practices that can enhance health and wellness in the workplace. For that reason, Dr. Sawyer co-founded a health and wellness blog, Workr Beeing in late 201

Perhaps you were getting a snack during the halftime break of the NCAA basketball championship game and you missed the predictive analytic experiment that Google Cloud conducted? Using data from the first half of the game, along with NCAA historical data, Google made predictions about what will happen during the second half. These were broadcast during a halftime ad and included confidence probabilities. In the championship game, for example, Google projected that there wou