
Cultivating a Trans-Inclusive Workplace
Trans people often experience significant levels of stigma and discrimination, hostility, and pressure to "manage" their identities in and outside of work. Indeed, a recent large-scale survey of 27,717 trans people from all fifty U.S. states, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, and U.S. military bases overseas, reported that 77% of respondents who held a job in the year prior took steps to avoid mistreatment at work, such as hiding or quitting their j


Meet our #VillanovaHRD Student Leaders | #VUHRDStory
Every year the #VillanovaHRD program has several current students who support the program by providing student-focused advice to our current

Insights from 40 years of I/O Psychology Research | #HRTea
The final episode of #HRTea is now live on iTunes and Google Play. In this episode, Bethany sat down with Dr. Rick Jacobs, an Industrial/Organizational Psychologist with more than 40 years of research and consulting experience. This year, 2020, marks the 40th anniversary of the Villanova HRD program. The HRD program has been educating HR leaders for 40 years, and through those years the profession of HR has certainly evolved. Rick's work over the last 40 years has not only

When, Flow, Recover | Creating Your New Normal
There is no formula for feeling more balanced, or being more productive, or having better meetings. But, if there were a formula, I think it might look something like this: When + Flow + Recover = Balance One thing that feels very “unbalancing” is not getting done what you think you should be getting done. Optimizing your use of time and energy is one solution for that. Then recovery allows for recuperating energy, but also for ‘rebalancing’ by distributing time to other ende