By Bethany Seton In order for a business to be successful, it needs to work like a well-oiled machine most of the time. For that to happen, everything should be in top condition, from all the equipment that is being used to the productivity of the employees. However, even if the employees share the values and …
By Beth Ellwood Pondering about death amid the COVID-19 crisis may have helped employees come up with creative responses to the pandemic, according to findings published in the Journal of Applied Psychology. U.S. employees who reported increased reflection about death and the meaning of life during the pandemic also reported subsequent increases in creativity at work. The …
New research suggests that a person’s own religious beliefs play an important role in how they perceive harassment of atheist employees. The study, published in Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, found that Evangelical Christians are less likely to perceive a supervisor deriding and proselytizing to an atheist employee as discrimination Despite the growing presence of …
Despite the best will in the world, meetings do not always run according to plan. You can prepare an agenda, and have a very good chairperson, and things can still go wrong. Sometimes participants just do not want to cooperate. They may behave in ways that are deliberately designed to disrupt the meeting or are …
Stress is the body’s response to real or perceived threats. Today most of our problems cannot be solved with a fight or flight response. We have to work through our problems and find constructive solutions. Stress is about reactions people have to the situations they face. These reactions are not the same from person to …
