"I was young, I needed the money" - on early career decision-making
What first motivated you to take up a job in your organisation or industry? It's a simple question I have asked as part of my research,...
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Welcome to Fabien Littel's personal site and blog
Jan 23, 20234 min read
Overthinking or thinking it over? Is there a good side to rumination?
Rumination, besides its original meaning related to animal digestion, is traditionally related to depression, and refers to the act of...
Dec 13, 20221 min read
What is moral disengagement? An explanatory video
"How do people do harm and live with themselves" (Bandura, 2016) Bandura's book's subtitle is quite self-explanatory when it comes to...
Dec 6, 20223 min read
Moral location, location, location - on thinking about your (and others') position
Why, as I worked on my MSc research, did I keep picturing a cowboy on horseback looking down from a hilltop? Why that picture exactly...
Nov 13, 20229 min read
Experiences of moral conflict in the Defence industry: Interview insights
As part of my recently completed MSc in Organisational Psychology, I conducted a research project, for which I decided to study how...
Nov 4, 20222 min read
Am I being watched? The Panopticon effect at work
How is an 18th century carceral system design connected to the little status light showing on your Teams / Skype icon? It's called the...
Oct 15, 20227 min read
How studying in my 40s gave me much more than new knowledge and skills
It's only been two weeks since I handed in my dissertation, the final step in completing my MSc in Organisational Psychology, at the end...
Sep 29, 20226 min read
Re-published: National Inclusion Week: What does inclusion mean in late 2022?
Foreword: I initially wrote this article in September 2022 for National Inclusion Week. As is often the case after sharing an article, a...
Aug 14, 20226 min read
Self-censorship, taboos and corporate discourse: how freely do we really speak?
My current research on the discourse of morality and moral conflicts in the defence industry, alongside other conversations I have had...
Feb 21, 20227 min read
Morality & Me - Episode 3: On becoming a Manager
I was 25 when I completed my Masters in Human Resources, and subsequently moved to the UK. As I started settling into the world of work,...
Feb 10, 20228 min read
Morality & Me - Episode 2: Global Mobility, dilemmas without borders
The next leg of my journey through morality at work, revisiting my own career to date through the lens of moral reasoning, is taking me...
Jan 9, 20229 min read
Morality & Me - Prologue : Why talk about morality at work?
Do you ever find yourself thinking about what "the right thing to do" is ? Or trying to justify an action which perhaps, deep inside, you...
Nov 27, 20217 min read
Learning through developing others: 2 years of working with early talent
"What advice would you give your 20 year-old self?" is a question that sometimes gets asked to those of us who have been in the world of...
Oct 29, 20217 min read
Climate emergency and moral dilemmas - a COP26 special
As the biggest world powers are gathering in Glasgow in the coming days to talk about their response to climate change and the race to...
Oct 3, 20218 min read
Research diaries: Casualties of the word count - purpose, taboos and dilemmas
Another deadline met, and paper submitted! And this one was significant, as it was the proposal for my MSc research project, which I will...
Sep 1, 20219 min read
My 10 tips to prepare for graduate programme interviews
Graduation day in Portsmouth, one of the last steps in the transition between studies and the world of work - alongside the dreaded...
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