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From Burnout to Balance: Nurturing Mental Health in the Workplace

HR Digest

A healthy workforce is less likely to experience absenteeism, presenteeism (when employees come to work but are not fully productive due to illness or stress), and work-related injuries or illnesses. Enhances Productivity and Performance Employees who are physically and mentally healthy are more productive and perform better at their jobs.

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Avivah Wittenberg-Cox on Gender, Generations, and the Workplace of Tomorrow

HR Digest

As the CEO of 20-first, she explores the transformative power of strategic balance in leadership, advocating for diverse perspectives across gender, generations, and global backgrounds. The HR Digest: Your work extends beyond gender balance to encompass generational and international diversity. This isn’t new. And always has been.

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Building a positive work-life culture

Strategy Driven

When managers have subordinates who face work-life conflicts, the best approach is to direct their efforts toward evaluating actual performance rather than presenteeism or “face-time”. Her research interests include work-life balance, social identity, and workplace diversity. Consider leaving a comment!

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Fight the Nine Symptoms of Corporate Decline

Harvard Business Review

You might not see absenteeism, but there is "presenteeism," which means the body is there but the mind is absent. Involve diverse cross-cutting teams in problem-solving. They want to minimize risk rather than to look for big improvements. Initiative decreases. Discredited and demoralized, people become paralyzed by anxiety.

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

Ask Atma

Industrial psychologists also rely on diverse data sources including: psychometrics and personality assessments. reducing absenteeism (and presenteeism). Meta-analysis – a statistical study of the results of several studies that address a set of related research hypotheses. quasi-experiments. human judgment. historical databases.