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America’s Loneliness Epidemic: A Hidden Systemic Risk to Organizations

Michael Lee Stallard

The danger is that this may lead to developing addiction. Being in an environment that fosters supportive relationships and human connection serves to stabilize the responses of the nervous system, preventing it from processing the stressor as a threat. In a review of 83 studies on addiction with at least 500 subjects, Sussman et al.

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A 100-Year Old Journey of Human Resource Management

HR Digest

Image Credit: www.history.com) At Hawthorne Works, a Western Electric factory in Illinois, Elton Mayo conducted a groundbreaking study. Mayo recognized that workers were complex individuals, greatly influenced by the organizational structure around them. However, in the most unlikely of circumstances, a glimmer of hope emerged.

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2019 HR Leaders of the Year

HR Digest

As the workplace ethos changed with technological advances and a new generation of workers, the focus has shifted to employee management and performance and productivity. “I All this has resulted in the HR team learning new technologies, and being given n an opportunity to grow in the new environment.

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Goal Setting: Crash Test Dummy Edition

RapidStart Leadership

Being physically and mentally strong will help me maintain a healthy, productive life. Setting small, attainable sub-goals will help you see some regular early success and develop a sense of momentum. Here’s some guidance from the Mayo Clinic on things to watch for. What’s my why? Goal Setting Crash Test – The Takeaway.

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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. Patients are co-designers, co-developers, and increasingly more responsible for their own and collective health outcomes. Bogdan Dreava/EyeEm/Getty Images.

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Why The Best Hospitals Are Managed by Doctors

Harvard Business Review

The Mayo Clinic is America’s best hospital, according to the 2016 US News and World Report (USNWR) ranking. As leaders, do physicians create a more sympathetic and productive work environment for other clinicians, because they are “one of them”? The Best Hospitals. Cleveland Clinic comes in second.

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Stop Trying to Control People or Make Them Happy

Harvard Business Review

And it has been more than 80 years ago since Elton Mayo, an Australian-born Harvard academic, produced his pioneering studies on human relations in the workplace. By our calculation , companies are operating in a competitive environment that is six times more complex than it was in 1955, when the Fortune 500 was launched.