Comments for Exchanging ideas to create the well-being advantage

Comment on CSR and well-being under graduate scrutiny by Eniola Alabi MCIM Chartered Marketer

Eniola Alabi MCIM Chartered Marketer — Wed, 09 May 2012 14:07:29 +0000

Interesting read. Corporate Social Responsibility is increasingly important nowadays with the advent of social media. As a result of the associated transparency and scrutiny, social media now has a huge impact on organisations who try to differentiate themselves as being ethical. Check out http://goldensolutionsblog.wordpress.com/2012/05/05/corporate-social-responsibility-and-social-media/

Comment on Guest blog spot – Nick Hayter by Neutrino

Neutrino — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:00:06 +0000

resilience is necessary to overcome any challenge in life, whether personal or professional. The only constant in life is that bad things will happen eventually, such as sickness or death of a loved on, financial stresses, relationship fall outs, and so forth, and the ability to keep going is a valuable/vital skill.

Comment on Do leaders and managers care about the well-being of their team members? by Neutrino

Neutrino — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:54:27 +0000

I don’t think employers are trained or taught to care, as in they don’t feel they have to. Especially in this economy, employees are deemed replaceable with hundreds of people willing to take a vacated position! It shifts the power dynamic, even if it’s not just about power, but work productivity and effectiveness. It’s a mutual relationship; if the employer cares and listens to their employee, the employee will feel more valued and thus work harder to make the office and company succeed.

Comment on Let’s develop our mental health, not just treat it by Neutrino

Neutrino — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:49:16 +0000

Mental health is hard to determine, fix, or necessarily take care of. The results or methods are concrete or tangible, like physical health, and might a lot more trial and error and work. But I agree that it is just as important as physical health, if not more so, since once your mind goes, the body will follow suit.

Comment on Teaching failure by Neutrino

Neutrino — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:38:14 +0000

I love this article! And I couldn’t agree more about failure and the possibility of making a mistake holding people back from dreaming, chasing goals, or doing anything challenging in life. It’s the “why bother” mentality. Once we realize that making mistakes is not only normal, but almost a rite of passage on the way to success in the future, people will be a lot more happier and resilient, in all areas of our lives.

Comment on Employee well-being applies to all sectors, all the time by Cary Cooper

Cary Cooper — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:29:39 +0000

Sorry, you’re quite right, slip of the keyboard there. It’s now been updated. Thanks for reading.

Comment on Employee well-being applies to all sectors, all the time by Siôn Jones

Siôn Jones — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 11:19:25 +0000

A Vice Chancellor in a Bank? I don’t think so! I have worked for American, Swiss, German, and English banks, and I have never heard of a vice chancellor working there. I was a Vice president at the American Bank (in the others I was a self employed board level consultant, which is higher in reality), but I never encountered a vice chancellor. However, I do recognise the picture painted by your correspondent. The trouble with banks is they only recognise two factors of motivation – Fear and Greed. They miss the desire to do a good job, be recognised for it – and especially, to be praised praised for it.

Comment on Employee well-being applies to all sectors, all the time by Ian

Ian — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 06:21:35 +0000

Cary, you could draw similarities with this narrative and the organisational paradigm modelled via cultural audit. It provides a great lens through which to view well-being. It also illustrates how different sectors may see and address the issues in a variety of manners.

Comment on Do people really work from home? by Synergy Extreme Virtual Staff

Synergy Extreme Virtual Staff — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 17:42:38 +0000

Online Staff…

That is true but there are conflicting ideas on this topic…

Comment on Taking responsibility for coping with a bullying boss by Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:39:37 +0000

so right you are – make the employer give support – as a public employee myself (through a “company” which is actually funded by the taxpayer through skills funding etc. , etc.) which is actually being awarded public service contracts worth 3, 4 or 5 million pound contracts in my workplace alone- who then tries to pay skilled and certified employees the minimum wage – sorry , you should not have to leave your place of employment because the manager disagrees with an economic decision made by yourself -get some backbone and fight back
good luck
best regards
anon