Wayne Hochwarter

FSU Expert: Why empathy is the wrong way to deal with office politics during COVID-19

The novel coronavirus pandemic has assaulted the way people live and work and the impact will be felt for years, according to Wayne Hochwarter, the Jim Moran Professor of Management at Florida State University’s College of Business. One particular area of impact, Hochwarter said, involves the way people deal with others at work — both civilly and in ways that bring out the “dark side” in others. Office […]

Expert Pitch: Predictions for tomorrow’s workforce

For generations, parents have been determined and willing to make deep sacrifices to help their children enjoy a better life than their own. That goal was once taken for granted in America, but now many workers are not sure it’s possible, according to Florida State University business professor Wayne Hochwarter. “What I have heard time […]

Office Holiday Party: Will it help or haunt your career?

FSU Professor Teaches How to Make It Memorable (For All the Right Reasons) It’s been a long year. You’ve worked hard, racked up a lot of hours on the job, sweat the details. Did anyone notice? Maybe there’s still one last chance this year, you wonder, to remind the higher-ups of that effort at the […]

Faculty and Staff Briefs: October 2016

HONORABLE AND NOTABLE Neil Abell, Ph.D., (Social Work) will be honored at the Council on Social Work Education’s 2016 Annual Program Meeting in Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 3-6, 2016. Abell’s article, written along with two FSU doctoral program alumnae, was published in in Volume 51, Issue 2 of the Journal of Social Work Education. The article, […]