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Expert tips on navigating office politics and supporting your team, even if you’ve never done it before.
Remote working policy needs to strike a balance between productivity and individual rights of employees.
In this new world of hybrid work, managers need to create working conditions that build and maintain interpersonal connections, while allowing for both high productivity and superior job satisfaction.
It’s important that employers and employees understand sympathy, empathy and compassion, and consider these emotions’ roles in both job performance and employee relations.
An increasing number of workers are demanding a more human-centric work environment, with space to express trust and vulnerability.
When employers treat staff drinking problems as a health issue, they get much better results.
Organizations can reduce some of the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Providing customizable support measures can improve employees’ work commitment and well-being.
A research team reports on its one-year project to improve the email habits of a large UK charity.
Zoom parties are one thing. Harder for organisations to replicate online are ‘casual collisions’ between colleagues.
The terrible murder of a British woman is a clear example of how our behaviour at work can be linked to violence against women.
The audio version of an in-depth article about a record-breaking Soviet miner from 1935 who embodied a system of values that is central to contemporary work cultures today.
Victoria Police recently won the rights not to be contacted out of work hours. They are not the only employees who need a proper break from work.
Interference with our brain’s goal-directed functioning is increasing with ever more tools for virtual communication and collaboration.
Although the end of the pandemic may be in sight, the costs of working remotely are growing. It’s time companies had a plan – even if they aren’t returning to the office any time soon.
One in five now work exclusively from home in the UK. But remote workers still drive about as often as commuters – though for different reasons.
Ita Buttrose may be right. The evidence does suggest younger workers are less resilient. But we shouldn’t make too much of it.
More than ever workers want feedback, and if managers can’t give it other colleagues can.
As many offices have converted to work-from-home operations during the coronavirus pandemic, the human connection needed for successful work cultures has changed for the better.
COVID-19 has forced many of us to do the daily shift from home. An anthropologist who observed a group of remote workers raises some concerns and shares some tips.
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PhD Candidate in Anthropology, UCL
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Senior Lecturer in Occupational Psychology, Management, University of Sussex
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Professor of Information and Knowledge Management, Loughborough University
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Project Assistant, Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bayes Business School, City, University of London
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Honorary Fellow, Department of Health Sciences, University of York
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Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health, University of Manchester
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Lecturer, The Cairnmillar Institute Melbourne, La Trobe University
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Professor of Criminology, Durham University
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Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Innovation and Digital Leadership, University of Brighton
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Lecturer, Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University
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Executive-in-Residence, Daniels College of Business, University of Denver
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Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame
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Emeritus Professor University of South Australia, University of South Australia
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Project Assistant at the Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions, University of Wisconsin-Madison
