Dominating leaders work against their team's best interests to hold onto power.
Date Posted: December 24, 2014
Categories: Workplace Issues
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Several studies have found that open office layouts can negatively impact employee performance. Environmental noise and interruptions can become distracting, impairing workers’ productivity. Employees in open offices have also been found to have ...
Dec 22
Categories: Personality problems, Workplace Issues
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Being arrogant is a problem because a person "always thinks he/she has the right and only answer [and] discounts or dismisses the input of others" (Lombardo & Eichinger, 1998, p. 447). Some causes of arrogance include: lack of feedback, like own ...
Dec 11
Categories: Workplace Issues
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According to Lominger International (now a Korn/Ferry Company), a competency is "a measurable characteristic of a person that is related to success at work. It may be a behavioral skill, a technical skill, an attribute (such as intelligence), or an ...
Dec 10
Categories: Workplace Issues
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"The body has all of these failsafe systems in place to keep itself healthy," says Michael Lumpkin, Professor of Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology at Georgetown University, USA. "All you really need to do is provide a healing ...
Dec 2
Categories: Workplace Issues
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Professionals may believe they can maintain an ethical reputation by merely refraining from morally questionable practices: Don't steal, cheat, or bully others. But this alone is not enough. If a higher-up in your organization is found guilty of ...
Dec 1
Categories: Career Development and Change, Workplace Issues
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Talking behind other people's backs may not always be nice, but sometimes it can help promote cooperation and self-improvement.
Nov 27
Categories: Workplace Issues
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Across different professions, many people are familiar with the sense of having to deliver more with less, meaning clocking-off time falls later and later. One way to protect workers' rights, and look after their wellbeing, is to introduce working ...
Nov 26
Categories: Mental Health in Asia, Workplace Issues
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Wake up, smell the coffee, and get right to work. That should be your new mantra to start the day, according to Dan Ariely, a Duke University professor of psychology and behavioral economics.
Nov 25
Categories: Workplace Issues
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Having a bad boss can make your work life a misery, but it can also make you sick, both physically and mentally, researchers say.
Oct 28
Categories: Workplace Issues
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Workplace research through the 20th Century suggested that selecting for intelligence is the best way to identify good performers. General mental ability (GMA), a popular recruitment measure that maps closely to the colloquial meaning of ...
Sep 19
Categories: Workplace Issues
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WE have all had to work on tasks we detest: Calculus homework, for example, is boring and hard. As soon as we start, we feel mentally exhausted, and the quality of our work suffers.
Now imagine you are an aspiring architect. Learning how calculus ...
Sep 19
Categories: Happiness, Workplace Issues
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Staff working in offices designed to be lean and devoid of greenery, are happier and more productive when those environments are enriched with plants, say researchers who conducted the largest field study of its kind.
Sep 2
Categories: Adult psychological development, Happiness, Workplace Issues
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If you're in or not far from your thirties, you're part of the age group that previous research shows is most likely to experience lower workplace wellbeing. A new study suggests the reasons for this midlife dip: a double whammy of more demands on ...
Jul 10
Categories: Workplace Issues
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A new study suggests standing during meetings indirectly benefits work performance in organizations where knowledge working is key to productivity. It found that compared with sitting, groups who held meetings standing up were more excited and less ...
Jun 30
Categories: Workplace Issues
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"Tired" is a slippery word. There's physically tired: heavy limbs, moving through metaphorical mud, or drowsy eyes. But there's also emotionally tired: lack of motivation, feeling unable to deal, and the most common: "I just don't feel like it."
Jun 26
Categories: Anxiety, Caregiver Issues / Stress, Depression, Workplace Issues
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'Babylab’ uses pioneering technology to help children suffering ...
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