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How to Avoid Wellbeing Washing at Work

HR Digest

By emphasizing personal resilience without addressing systemic issues, companies shift the burden of wellbeing onto employees rather than taking proactive steps to create a supportive work environment. This can lead to decreased productivity, higher rates of burnout, and increased absenteeism.

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The Number One Reason Employees Get Sick.Perceived Unfairness at Work

Great Leadership By Dan

Additionally, interpersonal judgment and social evaluation tends to elicit strong stress reactions with cortisol levels in our system being elevated fifty percent longer when the stressor is interpersonal versus impersonal ((Dickerson, S. Exploring the capacity to relive social and physical pain. Psychological Perspectives, 19, 789-795).

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The Olympics as a Story of Risk Management

Harvard Business Review

A terrorist incident, a breakdown of the London rail system, power blackouts, volcanic ash clouds , flooding, an outbreak of infectious disease—the London organizing committee (LOCOG) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) spent years thinking about every scenario they could imagine.

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The Other Women's Movement: Factory Workers in the Developing World

Harvard Business Review

Safe spaces and systems that enable discussion about threats and alleviate concerns like unsafe transportation, gender-based violence, and depression. In the corporate arena, compliance systems need to be revised through the lens of gender. Access to professional development and advancement opportunities.

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To Reform Capitalism, CEOs Should Champion Structural Reforms

Harvard Business Review

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. Climate change, natural resource shortages, the growing gap between haves and have nots, and the fragility of financial systems are but a few of the critical problems it has spawned, and these are conspiring to become a perfect storm. What Can CEOs Do?

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Where are you on the management scale of newbie to expert hacker?

Ask Atma

reward processes and systems, A Value Based Management System has three principal objectives: Creating Value – How the company can increase or generate maximum future value; more or less equal to strategy. Some dynamic management system. A system for Quality Control. Capital raising strategies. Risk assessment.

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Research Shows Unionized Workers Are Less Happy, but Why?

Harvard Business Review

Many employers are paying more and more attention to the well-being of their employees and to how they perceive their current jobs, especially because employee satisfaction is associated with important work-related outcomes such as organizational commitment and job performance, as well as with lower levels of turnover and absenteeism.