Carlisle City Council briefly got tough on time-wasters before it caved in and apologised. According to reports… two team leaders in the City Council’s benefits department got fed up listening to staff wasting time talking about things like the weather, holidays and babies.So they sent out an e-mail accusing staff of treating work like a holiday camp and suggested that if they wanted to talk about non-work stuff they should clock out and do it in non-work time. The email also listed examples such as looking at photographs and social networking, sport or fashion websites, and postings on chat, for-sale or wanted websites.
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Happiness and Productivity
Are happy workers more productive or are more productive workers happier? This is a question that has exercised work and organisational psychologists for over 50 years. And there have been mixed results from workplace interventions. For example in Sweden – with a highly educated workforce doing repetitive work in the car industry – increasing job … Continue reading »
Danger – Jealousy at work
Jealousy and Envy are closely related but jealousy is usually when you wish you had something someone else has got eg a pay rise,or a plum project, and envy is when you haven’t got it and when you wish they hadn’t either.
Jealousy can also be aspirational or inspirational in encouraging you to better yourself so that you can also achieve what the other person has.
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Groupthink – a blast from the past
In recent times it has become a common belief that team working is the key to delivering results and that the more cohesive the group, the more effective it is. It may be more fun to work in such a group but the evidence suggests that members of groups may indulge in “social loafing”, there … Continue reading »
Are your employees engaged?
The Sunday Times “Best Companies to Work For survey”, which has now canvassed a million workers since 2000, has identified eight factors that form workplace engagement. The factor with the strongest correlation is Leadership and employees must have faith and trust in their senior management team to be engaged. To do that leaders must gain their trust, … Continue reading »
