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This category is Adrian Furnham – On Your Head, featuring expert insights on psychology, leadership, and workplace behavior. It explores how human thinking, decision-making, and personality influence professional success, personal development, and organizational dynamics.

Careering Off Track: The New World of Work

By Adrian Furnham Today, the idea of a ‘job for life’ is, for many people, neither possible nor desirable.  The concept of the career has,...

Counterwork Behaviours

By Adrian Furnham Counterwork behaviours – CWBs – include fraud, misconduct, and work avoidance cost organisations billions every year. In this article, Professor Furnham discusses...

Savvy and Skillful: a new look at office politics

By Adrian Furnham Until recently the concept of office politics was exclusively associated with dirty tricks and Machiavellian manipulation. But recently psychologists using the concept...
Teaching Leadership

Can You Teach Leadership?

By Adrian Furnham Can leadership be taught or is it an innate talent? This age-old question has been the topic of many debates in the...
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Laugh and the World Complains to HR: Humour at Work

By Adrian Furnham But it was just “workplace banter”! Another pale, stale, frail male attempts to defend himself against a range of accusations of “inappropriateness”...
Spying

Trust, Treason and Treachery: The Psychology of Spying

By Adrian Furnham and John Taylor “In the world of intelligence, it is trust not betrayal which dominates the mindset” What exactly do spies do? What...
Assessment

People Assessment in the Digital Age

By Adrian Furnham How have technical, social, economic and legal forces influenced the business of people assessment? New technologies used in assessment include smartphone and...
Startup

The Psychology of Start-Ups

By Adrian Furnham Every generation likes to believe that they are different from those that came before them – “new and improved” as advertisers like...

Current Development in Psychometric Tests

By Adrian Furnham Finding the right person who is well suited for a job position is vital in any organisation’s success. There are numbers of...

The Great Resignation

By Adrian Furnham Many believe that the young generation is not interested in working, with some calling them the Lazy Generation. The concept of the...
The Anatomy of the Corporate Psychopath

Have You Ever Met a Psychopath? The Anatomy of the Corporate Psychopath

By Adrian Furnham When we think of psychopaths, we think of blood-thirsty crazed killers who spend their lives in chains at maximum security prisons after...
The Overconfident Leader

Arrogance, Hubris, and Narcissism: The Overconfident Leader

By Adrian Furnham There is Freudian psychological and psychiatric business literature on narcissism. We are now used to discussing our politicians as well as business...
Business Teams

Business Teams: Bad, Sad, and Mad… and How to Fix Them

By Georgie Flenberg and Adrian Furnham If you want the best from your car, it helps to have some idea of how it all works....

Fitting the (dark-side, problematic) person to the (ideal) job

By Adrian Furnham We might not care to admit it, but most of us have a dark side. Although it's tempting to view that as...
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The Psychology of Christmas

By Adrian Furnham The "season to be jolly" is once more looming, and with it comes the uncomfortable sensation that one really ought to start...
Your call is important to us

“Your Call is Important to Us”: The Business Psychology of Queuing

By Adrian Furnham One sure way to disgruntle your customers is to oblige them to fritter away their valuable time in queues – whether in...
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The Drama Queen Leader: Theatricality and Inappropriate Behaviour

By Adrian Furnham Friendly, dramatic, and attention-seeking, they are difficult to miss. You may find them entertaining in social settings, but what happens when you...
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The Psychology of Greed

By Adrian Furnham As one of the seven cardinal sins, greed is a trait no one wants to be accused of. While people detest and...
passive agressive

The Passive-Aggressive Individual 

By Adrian Furnham You must have met a few or maybe you are working with one right now. Who are passive-aggressive individuals and what makes...
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Pay Secrecy

By Adrian Furnham Even with today’s rapidly progressing society, there still exists a certain stigma towards the topic of salary or compensation. Employees have taken...

Sex and Money: Do men and women use money differently

By Adrian Furnham Do men and women, think about, use and invest money differently? If so why? Dare one go there? One has to be...

Select out: Why selection often goes wrong and what to do about it

By Adrian Furnham The process of selecting people, in business as in social relationships, tends to focus on the “good” characteristics we are looking for....
WFH

Distractions, Decisions and Domesticity: The Pleasures and Pitfalls of WFH

By Adrian Furnham Whilst the number of teleworkers increased linearly since the beginning of the millennium, it has been the Covid-19 pandemic and the compulsory...
Old and New Takes on Selection Interviews

Old and New Takes on Selection Interviews

By Adrian Furnham Nearly all selection processes involve the famous trio: application form, references and interview. Both the selectors and the candidates seem to like...
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Authenticity at Work: Be Honest, is it a Good Thing?

By Adrian Furnham It is often said that honesty is the best policy. But if we apply that maxim invariably and unquestioningly, does that automatically...
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Tyrant Leadership: Putin and the Psychology of Power

By John Taylor and Adrian Furnham Vladimir Putin appears to be firmly in control of his country, able to bend it to his will and...

Why Many Modern Psychology Test Publishers Fail

By Adrian Furnham In the midst of the razzmatazz surrounding AI, we hear a lot about its potential for the recruitment process. But is it...
beauty premium

A Beauty Premium and a Plainness Penalty: Attractiveness at Work

By Adrian Furnham Are physically attractive people seriously advantaged at work? Are they more likely to be selected, promoted, and given higher salaries? Does being physically...

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