"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, 2023
- 4 min
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, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 9 min
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, 2022
- 2 min
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, 2022
- 7 min
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, 2022
- 6 min
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, 2022
- 6 min
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, 2022
- 7 min
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, 2022
- 8 min
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, 2022
- 9 min
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, 2021
- 7 min
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, 2021
- 7 min
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, 2021
- 8 min
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, 2021
- 9 min
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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