Week 7 Blog

The Scholarly Article I found was called: A speculative Perspective on the Transfer of Behavioral Science Findings to the Workplace: "The Times are A-Changin"  by Gary P. Latham, 2007 Academy of Management Journal Vol. 5o, No. 5, 1027-1032

and the blog I found was: Work-focused psychotherapy can help employees return to work sooner Source: American Psychological Association, February 27, 2012


Summary of the Article is:


Times are changing in the workplace and there are potential solutions to certain problems that they offered which are as follows. 
Lead with our strength
Develop a Theory of Diffusion
Include Operational Validity as a Criterion for Evaluating Human Resource Management Theory
Educate Managers and MBA Students by Involving Them in Our Research
Become Bilingual
Enter the World of Practitioners
Influence Practitioner Journals
Reward One's Influence on Practice
Conduct Research with Practitioners
Encourage Our Proteges to Seek Employment in the Private and Public Sectors




Summary of the blog is:

This blog talks about how cognitive behavior therapy could reduce the number of days employees miss due to mental disorders. The people who participated in the therapy group versus the people who did not increased the number of days they were in work rather than the days they were off due to their mental illness. 

I believe the blog was more effective than the article was because it was simply more readable than the article was. The article was harder to understand than the blog so I think that the article was more focused on the more educated reader and the blog was focused on whoever came across it.