It’s Monday morning, and you’re standing at the edge of a swamp. Looking out, you see many hazards: dark, dangerous water; patches of earth that look like quicksand; and trees with hanging clumps [...]
Investing time and effort to uncover and mitigate today’s stressors for employees can help employers avoid tomorrow’s more damaging and expensive consequences. A comprehensive assessment of workplace stress can generate a substantial [...]
A career in banking can seem very attractive: high salaries (for some anyway), good working conditions and prestige. But beware. Employees in corporate banking jobs across 26 countries experience higher stress levels than people in other finance careers, according to a recent study.¹ One person described a job in banking this way: “You will be required to work very [...]
By Thomas O. Davenport, Senior Consultant, Willis Towers Watson Imagine you work in a small, high-technology company. This is the how your CEO describes his desired workplace culture: “Fire people who are not [...]
By Thomas O. Davenport and John M. Bremen, Willis Towers Watson What is the best way to describe the relationship between employers and employees? Since the early 1990s, employees have evolved from costs [...]
For many of us who toil in the modern workplace, it sometimes seems the main exercise we get comes from aerobic stress. Much like a session on the stair master, stress fires up our cardiovascular systems with adrenaline, gets [...]
It’s Monday morning and time to make your to-do list for the day. Following time management advice you found on the Internet, you aim to fit your list on a single sticky note. As [...]
Edgar Schein, one of the leading academic theorists on corporate culture, defines culture as a pattern of shared basic assumptions that a group has learned as it solves problems of external pressure and internal cooperation. These [...]
Relying on a corporate wellness program as the main strategy for improving employee health is like throwing a drowning person a DVD on how to do the backstroke. In both cases, the focus is [...]
Over the past decade, there has been a growing trend among global organizations to treat their employees as internal consumers. The most innovative of these companies have gone a step further by embracing the concept of “consumer-driven HR” — that [...]
