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If your work is so pleasant that you spend all weekend looking forward to Monday morning, you probably don’t have to read this. But if your job is a source of stress and tension—as it is for many people at least some of the time—you need to get control of the frustration before it turns you into a wreck. Here’s some advice for keeping stress at bay.
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Don’t Let the Office Kitchen Become a Health Hazard
Do you think the conditions in your office kitchen are bad? Consider this incident—in 2009, a San Jose, California office building was evacuated and seven people went to the hospital when one employee decided to clean out a long-neglected refrigerator. The mixture of mold and cleaning chemicals triggered a hazardous incident.
The Psychology of Employee Motivation
Abraham Maslow developed the concept of the Hierarchy of Needs, and it has been extensively applied to employee motivation. Maslow’s Hierarchy suggests that people are motivated by five levels of need and the higher-level needs do not motivate until lower level needs are met. That is, if employees’ need for money is not met, even the most creative employee rewards program cannot motivate. Take a look at Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and determine where your employees are today and what you’ll need to do next to most effectively motivate.
How to Overcome Complaining: Five Patterns of Positive Conversation, Part Three
In this series of three articles, we’ve considered several of the natural and unconscious reasons that complaining catches on and sticks. We’ve also explored how a “complaint culture” creates three specific and corrosive risks. In this article, let’s take a deep breath and think through how we can turn it around. As before, we will be focusing on complaining at work, but I think you’ll find certain truisms for your family and social life, as well.
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