Work and well-being

How to deal with bullies at the workplace

How to deal with mobbing, bullying and harassment at work: A practical guideline

Within organizations, there is inevitably conflict between supervisors and their subordinates and also between team members and peers. However, sometimes there are individuals who are destructive in their behavior because of their leadership style and personality traits (Wright et al., 2017). Workplace bullying is a real problem in organizations and can cause physical and psychological health issues for employees who are being harassed (Branch & Murray, 2015). This blogpost takes insights from research on workplace bullying and CQ Dossiers to introduce a simple step-by-step guideline on how to deal with bullies.

How does behavioral science help improve the workplace?

There are countless pieces of advice when it comes to improving work that relate to becoming more productive, efficient, profitable, happy, etc. While much of the advice available for free is not rooted in solid evidence, one of the main scientific assets to understanding workplace improvement is behavioral science. There is a breadth of evidence, even entire academic disciplines, which suggest that insights from psychology in particular are directly correlated to improving internal and external relations and practices at work. This blogpost highlights some of the main direct and indirect influences of behavioral science at the workplace and highlight how many principles can easily be implemented to much success.

Manager Resilience: Preventing burnout and thriving in crisis

Managers are typically tasked with overseeing and taking steps to ensure the productivity of their employees. This task is complicated and requires a finely-tuned blend of providing motivation, doling out consequences, adapting to institutional change, and helping employees build independence and ne…

Manager Health and Wellbeing: Taking Care of Yourself When Managing Others

Most managers are, by definition, focused on factors outside of themselves. Managing a team of employees and running an organization requires a ton of outward attention, and an ability to prioritize others’ needs before addressing ones’ own. This perspective, however, can come at a high price: manag…

How can a manager protect employees from sexual harassment, investigate accusations and prevent future incidents?

Sexual harassment and gender discrimination: Keeping employees safe in the #MeToo era

In the wake of the #MeToo Movement, more and more industries are grappling with the fact that sexual harassment is both a widespread and under-reported phenomenon (Khomami, 2017; Jagsi, 2018). Numerous victims, of a variety of genders, have suffered in silence for years while supervisors and colleagues subjected them to unwanted sexual attention. Now, suddenly, accusations are being made public, and victims are being met with greater public understanding and empathy.

Health and Wellness: Cultivating Physical and Emotional Health in an Organization

There are numerous apparent benefits for making the physical and even emotional health of employees a priority. This dossier will review some of the latest empirical research on the subject.

Psychological well-being: Making an organization psychologically nourishing

All employees have distinct psychological needs. When managing a large group of people, you will generally be unaware of what the full extent of these needs are. This CQ Dossier provides you an introduction into what you have to consider in order to ensure your employees' psychological wellbeing.

Burnout contagion: Managing and reducing socially-transmitted burnout

Burnout is, largely, a social phenomenon. Many of the causes of burnout are social: when an organization is run in an unjust fashion, conflict is high, and employer demands are difficult to meet, employees are at a greater risk of burning out (Oberle et al, 2016). Burnout is also exhibited in social…

Lighting the match: Causes of burnout and exhaustion at the workplace

Burnout is the enemy of productivity, collaboration, and morale. When an employee is experiencing burnout, they report low motivation, low investment in their organization’s goals, and an outlook that is pessimistic and grim. Burned out employees are more likely to be absent, waste time at the workp…

The Importance of Wellbeing: Organizational Outcomes from an Evidence-based Management Perspective

A growing number of organizations are focusing on caring for their employees in a holistic, wellbeing-focused manner. Particularly among tech companies and start-ups, employee benefits now surpass simple health and retirement benefits, and include physical health programs, continuing education credi…

More than Okay: What Employee Wellbeing Is, and Why It Matters

Most managers are well aware that employee satisfaction and job enjoyment predicts performance, retention, burnout, and other crucial outcomes. Employers also tend to recognize the value in selecting and screening for employees who are optimistic, and otherwise psychologically equipped for their spe…

Are your employees motivated, engaged or burned out? Why you should care and how to prevent burn out trap

Are your employees motivated, engaged or burned out? Why you should care and how to prevent the burnout trap

Leaders within organizations are tasked with taking time to know what burnout is, how to identify it, how to prevent it, and how to address it if it spotted. It may seem like that is a personal matter for the employee to tend to, however, there is evidence to the contrary. Organizations are, at the core, made up of people. Not taking care of them is like neglecting any process or element of the business. If you don’t address this problem which may be lurking in your workplace, it could cost the company capital, both human and financial.

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