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How Our Work Environment Affects Us

The Horizons Tracker

While prior research has delved into the influence of indoor environmental quality (IEQ) factors, such as temperature, air quality, lighting, and noise, on work efficiency and worker health, these investigations often focus on these aspects in isolation.

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Evaluating Individual Performance From Within A Team

The Horizons Tracker

The hypothesis being tested was that managers instinctively pay attention to presenteeism and use that to distinguish individual performance within each team. Indeed, the managers were most accurate in their performance appraisals for employees who had a degree of influence on the performance of their team. Best performance.

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Saudi Arabia’s Labor Market Challenge

Harvard Business Review

And it’s a variable that is new and largely unknown in Saudi Arabia’s job markets, where seniority is typically a function of age, longevity of service, and other sources of influence, particularly in the public sector, where most Saudis work.

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In Defense of Corporate Wellness Programs

Harvard Business Review

What are the behaviors that corporate wellness initiatives are trying to influence? They attributed those losses both to absenteeism and to “presenteeism,” when employees come to work too unwell to do their jobs. Let’s consider that piece by piece. trillion in lost productivity annually in the U.S.

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

Ask Atma

Industrial or organizational psychology focuses on the underlying and implicit dynamics that shape and influence the individuals in the organization. Like humans, institutions are mostly unaware of the dramatic influence of psychological processes. reducing absenteeism (and presenteeism). employee management. time management.