top of page


HWEN Case Study: Baseball Umpires
The 2021 Major League Baseball season is now underway. Which leads us to talk about one of the most verbally-abused occupations out...

Brian Goldfeder
Apr 4, 20214 min read
28 views
0 comments


Cancel Culture Strikes Again...Or Did It? The Case of Alexi McCammond
Cancel culture has struck again. Or was it a toxic work culture? Cancel culture has struck again. Or ws it a toxic work culture? to be...

Brian Goldfeder
Mar 21, 20213 min read
36 views
0 comments


Employee Selection Case Study: The U.S. Executive Branch
As I continue to develop my knowledge of industrial/organizational psychology and continue to follow the goings-on of the U.S....

Brian Goldfeder
Mar 12, 20213 min read
19 views
0 comments


Sexual Harassment: My take on the Andrew Cuomo situation
On Wednesday, NY Governor Andrew Cuomo addressed allegations of sexual harassment from three different women, two of whom are former...

Brian Goldfeder
Mar 4, 20212 min read
10 views
0 comments


Personnel Decisions: Discrimination against Back Office Staff?
In my last blog post on age discrimination, I touched on the concept of how people in the operating department of a company were more...

Brian Goldfeder
Feb 9, 20212 min read
9 views
0 comments


A Case Study on Age Discrimination
A few weeks ago, I was having a conversation with a fellow Toastmasters member who is a retired teacher from the NYC school system. She...

Brian Goldfeder
Feb 5, 20213 min read
49 views
0 comments


Revisiting Cancel Culture: The House of Representatives
Let me make one thing clear: I am not trying to get political in this post. I am a registered independent who is neither Democrat nor...

Brian Goldfeder
Jan 29, 20213 min read
9 views
0 comments


HWEN I/O Psychology Focus: Employee Selection and Personnel Decisions
In today's post, I talk about a serious issue we face: employee selection and personnel decisions. I'm going to use my own experiences as...

Brian Goldfeder
Jan 27, 20214 min read
12 views
0 comments


"Zero-Tolerance" Culture - A Perspective of the Advantages and Disadvantages
Before I begin, first I should mention that I have temporarily paused the series of applied I/O psychology concepts after two posts....

Brian Goldfeder
Jan 23, 20214 min read
36 views
0 comments


Cancel Culture at Work: The Case of (Former) Mets GM Jared Porter
Taking a break from my series of I/O psychology concept posts to focus on a serious issue which reared its ugly head this morning: cancel...

Brian Goldfeder
Jan 19, 20213 min read
7 views
0 comments


Applying I/O Psychology Concepts, Part II - Teams and Teamwork
For today's topic within I/O psychology, I will discuss teams and teamwork. In this post, I will take a different approach by focusing...

Brian Goldfeder
Jan 13, 20212 min read
34 views
0 comments


Applying I/O Psychology Concepts, Part I - Work Attitudes
Today, I launch an eight-part series on how some of the most basic concepts within the sub-fields of industrial/organizational (I/O)...

Brian Goldfeder
Jan 12, 20216 min read
16 views
0 comments


Can Toxic Work Cultures Affect Personalities?
In a previous blog post, I alluded to my experiences in a corporate job and the impacts of a toxic work culture on my personality. To...

Brian Goldfeder
Dec 29, 20202 min read
6 views
0 comments


HWEN Case Study: The White House
About a week and a half ago, as I kept my eyes glued to CNN and Fox News to get updates on the election situation (and very - and...

Brian Goldfeder
Dec 15, 20202 min read
13 views
0 comments


Why I Will Probably Never Work a Corporate Job Again
For my first "official" blog post, I will get personal. Most of the posts that will appear on this blog will generally be observations...

Brian Goldfeder
Dec 14, 20205 min read
23 views
0 comments


Introducing The Healthy Work Environment Network
Welcome to the first post of the Healthy Work Environment Network blog. The purpose of this blog, and indeed, the mission of The Healthy...

Brian Goldfeder
Nov 15, 20202 min read
13 views
0 comments
bottom of page