Work-Life and Organizational Effectiveness Lab

12/26/2025

Excited to share that a chapter by WLOE Lab leader Dr. Jesse Michel is now published in How to Conduct and Publish High-Quality Research in Industrial and Organizational Psychology. This is an excellent volume featuring top I-O scholars and high-quality research on conducting and publishing impactful work in the field. Honored to be included among such strong contributions!!!

"How to Conduct and Publish High-Quality Research in Industrial-Organizational Psychology" published on 09 Dec 2025 by Edward Elgar Publishing.

11/07/2025

Congrats to WLOE members (Dr. Michel) and alumni (Drs. Rotch, Shifrin, DeBaylo, and Lennox) on the manuscript titled "Work–family conflict and enrichment predict work and family negative and positive affect and (sometimes) vice versa: A prospective analysis" currently in press at IJSM!!!

11/07/2025

Congrats to WLOE lab member Lauren Postier for successfully proposing her dissertation today!!!

09/26/2025

The WLOE Lab is proud to share that our director, Dr. Jesse Michel, has been named a SIOP Fellow by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology!

This recognition honors sustained and significant contributions to the science and practice of I-O psychology.

Congratulations, Jesse!

https://www.siop.org/about-siop/awards-recognition/scholarships-fellowships/siop-fellowship/new-fellows/

08/05/2025

This one’s a bit delayed, but we wanted to highlight a paper published last year by Dr. Jesse Michel and former WLOE Lab member Dr. Michael Rotch in Journal of Business and Psychology -- "What’s holding you back? Development of the Multi-Facet Organizational Constraints Scale (MOCS)"
🔗 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10869-024-09961-8

This project was sparked by a great discussion during Dr. Nathan Bowling’s visit to Auburn, where he spoke about survey length and careless responding. Grateful for that visit and the ideas it generated!

Well done to both authors and thanks again to Dr. Bowling for inspiring the conversation that led to this work! 👏

Organizational constraints—which include any workplace condition that undermines a worker’s ability to perform his or her job tasks—are an important type of work stressor. Previous research has typically assessed organizational constraints as a global (i.e., unidimensional) construct. In the c...