Mindfulness at Work
A few years ago, my friend Erik Dane and I got excited about doing a study on the importance of mindfulness in the workplace. Erik, a professor at Rice's Jones School of Business, had done theoretical work on the type of roles and tasks that mindfulness would be most important for doing successfully. I had done other research on employee engagement, linking it to job outcomes like performance and intending to quit your job. We decided to investigate whether mindfulness or eng
How to Change Your Happiness at Work
Organizations have become convinced that having engaged employees is good for their bottom line. So, they send out surveys, compile the results, share them with employees, and occasionally make changes based on the biggest issues raised by the employees. Unfortunately, these changes may not be relevant to you. There is nothing wrong with these efforts. In fact, they are important in a good organizational culture. However, this approach doesn't give the individual employee muc
