Summary: The current ways of doing business may be nothing more than old habits that didn’t work particularly well in the first place. This is hard to believe, but apparently a technology company called NextJump has a policy that does not allow firing their employees. (NextJump manages employee rewards programs for scores of Fortune 1,000 [...]
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Summary: Prosocial behavior – also known as the desire to help others – may be far more motivating than is currently understood by society at large. Adam Grant is the youngest tenured professor at the Wharton School of Business. His field is organization psychology and his research sometimes has been on the provocative side. A [...]
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Summary: Binging on food or activities that we enjoy actually may make us less happy, says a research study. The obvious answer to why overworking tends to make us unhappy is the added stress, because it causes anxiety and physical tension in the body such as clenched and even knotted muscles. It also causes our [...]
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Summary: Employee performance reviews may be counter-productive. – Annual and semi-annual reviews, depending on how they are handled, can result in employees becoming stressed, which generally makes them less effective. It is standard practice for many organizations to conduct annual reviews for their employees. However, this approach to managing might not be the best way [...]
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Summary: It’s not easy to build a happy and engaged workforce but these three steps can help you get started. - Making sure your leadership team is engaged - Finding out the truth about how your employees feel about your organization - Survey or interview employees to find engagement gaps Over the past twelve months I’ve had [...]
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Summary: Results of an employee survey showed personal technology increased workplace happiness and efficiency. – More and more workers (especially the younger ones) are using personal devices such as smart phones and laptops on the job. – Organizations that don’t recognize how using personal devices can help their employees might experience productivity losses. A research [...]
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Summary: Less than half of UK workers are happy with their jobs. - This number is about the same as last year. According to a survey conducted by Office Angels about 42% of workers in the UK are happy with their current jobs. (Last year a similar survey found 41% were.) Some 46% of workers [...]
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Summary: Research subjects that watched a short comedy clip performed better on math tests than ones that didn’t. – A cause and effect link between happiness and productivity might have been strengthened by the study. Researchers at the University of Warwick and IZA Bonn conducted a study using 565 test subjects. In their study paper [...]
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Summary: Paying employees to do charity work in the local community can increase their job satisfaction. Key Take Aways: – Paid volunteer service may be an effective way of increasing employee engagement in the workplace. – Employee engagement is a very important factor in an organization’s success and too many are not engaged. The volunteer [...]
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Summary: Relaxation is important for health and maintaining life/work balance. – Sometimes working less increases productivity because it allows more time to take care of oneself such as sleeping, eating and exercising properly. – Overworking can lead to lower productivity, because it generates extra stress. This post is almost Part II of the last one [...]
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