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: 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: Trying to feel happy may actually make people unhappy because it can be an unrealistic approach to experiencing contentment. Key Take Aways: – Setting huge goals and suppressing information that seems ‘negative’ may actually make failure more likely. – Happiness may result more from small things we practice on a daily basis, rather than [...]
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Summary: Drinking coffee can elevate a stress hormone called cortisol. Key Take Aways: – Even drinking a single cup can cause cortisol to be elevated for hours in some individuals. – Reducing stress in the workplace may be as simple as eliminating coffee for some people, especially if they are consuming many cups each work [...]
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Summary: Employee recognition programs tend to make workers happier and therefore probably more productive. – Employee recognition programs can be effective in reducing employee turnover. – They tend to be under-utilized, but they can be implemented and managed cost effectively — sometimes with very good results. A recent survey of 742 workers at companies with [...]
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Summary: Employee engagement is very important for an organization’s success. Key Take Aways: – Employee engagement is tied directly to each worker’s personal values. – Hiring employees whose personal values overlap with those of the organization generally results in employee engagement. – Unengaged and disengaged workers cost the American economy hundreds of billions each year [...]
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Summary: These five things may increase work happiness. Often when people are in a job they don’t like, they think of quitting in order to be happier, and sometimes with good reason. However, in today’s tight economy, it probably would not be a good idea at all to quit a job without having a new [...]
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Summary: Forgetting names at work or during job interviews is a memorable gaffe. Key Take Aways: – Having a method for remembering names can challenge the notion you are simply bad at remembering names. – Taking a few simple actions could go a long way towards improving memory. Forgetting a co-worker’s name or the name [...]
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Views on You is a new website that allows users to research companies to see if they might be good places to work. It has an intriguing potential. When you first log-in you are given the choice of doing so using your LinkedIn or FaceBook accounts. Presumably this is done to help build your personal [...]
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Researchers at business schools are investigating how compassion in the workplace can create a happier and more productive environment. They are examining situations where workers experienced inspiration and productivity, in order to understand how those conditions arose. If they can gain that knowledge, the hope is they can apply it to many organizations and help [...]
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