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 [...]
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 [...]
The work environment created by first-line supervisors and managers has a direct effect on employee well-being and, consequently, on health and health care cost. A growing body of studies shows, for example, that supervisor [...]
Lion tamer, U.S. president, inner-city high school teacher, air traffic controller. To this list of stressful jobs, add one more: manager . The headline on a tech industry blog suggests, “First, Kill All the Managers.”1 Another [...]
Management and leadership have been integral parts of business since humans invented work. For most of the last two decades, though, the manager position has been under direct assault. It’s become a ragged conglomeration of pieces [...]
