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Creating More Fun Working Conditions

Strategy Driven

A report by CMI Workplace found that if workers feel happy in their office surroundings they are less likely to be stressed at work. Tax season is a time of stress, long days, and longer weeks. Any company can make the working conditions at their company an asset for their employees. We had a good laugh and got a lot done.”.

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Key HR Trends for 2022 and Beyond

HR Digest

More than a hundred years ago, Frederick Taylor’s Scientific Management laid the foundations for modern human resource management. New HR Trends (2022).

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Can Leaders Take a Break? :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Purdue is known for its bright engineers, top flight technology students, it is the alma mater of the first and last men to walk on the moon. One of the concepts we discussed at Purdue was the fact that when stress hits the hot button we all tend to revert to patterns learned in our original organization, the family.

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Why Are India's Women So Stressed Out?

Harvard Business Review

According to "Women of Tomorrow," a recent Nielsen survey of 6,500 women across 21 different nations, Indian women are the most stressed in the world today. An overwhelming 87% of Indian women said they felt stressed most of the time, and 82% reported that they had no time to relax.

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Rethinking the Learner-Centric Model in the Workplace

HR Digest

The emergence of varied employee training options has led to a wider choice of management by human resource chiefs in employee development and advancement procedures. Hence, employees’ concept of training must be re-engineered to encourage their full participation and willingness to be productive.

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Getting Naps Ahead of the Competition

Harvard Business Review

An increasing number of employers and employees alike are acknowledging that the current model of success isn''t working, and is in fact leading to burnout, stress, decreased productivity, and — an epidemic with especially personal resonance to me — sleep-deprivation. Health Human resources Managing people'

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Why We Fail to Report Sexual Harassment

Harvard Business Review

And we continue to hear stories about sexual harassment in academia , medicine , science , and engineering driving women out of STEM. Betty, a software engineer, told us, “I had a guy ask me if I’ve had any work done up there… I’ve learned to respond kind of with the funny thing. I said, ‘I sure have.

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