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Tag: Workplace Culture
Show, don’t tell: Attracting a diverse workforce
Over the last decade, a growing number of companies and organizations have included messages about diversity and inclusion as part of their employee recruitment efforts.
Romantic relationships between coworkers may deteriorate workplace culture
Workplace ostracism refers to an employee’s perception of being excluded, ignored, or rejected in the workplace. A study published in PLOS ONE suggests that romantic relationships between coworkers are associated with perceived ostracism and knowledge sabotage by other colleagues.
NCCN Policy Summit Speakers Say Flexibility in Supporting and Accommodating Cancer Patients and Caregivers Helps Workplaces Thrive
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) convened an oncology policy summit in Washington D.C. on building a workplace that includes support for people with cancer and their caregivers. The program, which also featured a virtual attendance option, examined how workplace norms and expectations have changed in recent years, particularly since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
WashU Experts: Let nature of work dictate return-to-work plans
Many employers have already begun transitioning employees back to the office, while others plan to resume in-office work in the coming months. But after more than a year of working from home, is returning to business as usual even possible? Or desirable?Employees have changed amid this pandemic. The more a company can match employee preferences and the optimal work conditions required for a given role, the better off they’ll be in terms of hiring and employee retention, according to Peter Boumgarden, an organizational behavior expert at Washington University in St.
Have Something To Say? Your Boss Wants You to Do it in Private.
New research finds that employees feel comfortable speaking up in open forums, but managers prefer that employees speak truth to power in a closed-door discussion instead of in front of a group. The forthcoming study gives insight for both sides to productively address this dynamic.
Maryland Smith Experts Available on Juneteenth’s Significance for Workplaces, Organizations
Leaders and experts at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business are available to discuss Juneteenth’s significance for organizations and workplaces. They can address such underlying concepts as understanding and navigating ‘racial and gender overtones to professionalism”…
Virtual Fireside Chat: Black Liberation In the Workplace
To commemorate Juneteenth, Maryland Smith hosts a discussion on June 17 with award-winning marketing and advertising executive Toye Wigley.
Star employees get most of the credit and blame while collaborating with non-stars
Star employees often get most of the credit when things go right, but also shoulder most of the blame when things go wrong, according to new research from Binghamton University, State University of New York.
Picture this: Employee fraud decreases when they see family photos
Displaying family photos in the workplace cuts down on employee fraud and other unethical behavior, new Washington University in St. Louis research finds. For instance, in one study the researchers conducted, participants who looked at pictures of family or friends filed expense reports claiming about $8 less on average than workers without pictures. While $8 may not seem like much, it can add up quickly.
Survey results: Having a higher purpose promotes happiness, lowers stress
When a company commits in writing to a statement of higher purpose, a new survey shows that it promotes the employees’ well-being, more happiness and even lower stress from the COVID-19 pandemic.
And when the workers write their own, the effects are even more substantial.
Success Tips for Telework Newcomers from Maryland Smith Experts
Given current work-from-home mandates across industries and jobs, management professor Trevor Foulk ([email protected]) and career and leadership coach Rachel Loock ([email protected]) at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business can give success tips for telework newcomers. Foulk:…