It turns out that people who’ve experienced rude behavior from others are “infected” with rudeness and will be rude to the people they interact with next.
Both men and women can benefit from an acceptance of the value of life outside work.
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Everyone know it’s good to escape to the great outdoors, but new research shows just 40 seconds with some greenery can boost our ability to concentrate.
Stress arises from what we assume others expect of us.
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Stress is the physical and emotional response we all experience when faced with demanding situations. Our stress can arise from within when we fear we’re unable to meet our own high expectations. Or it…
What is the optimum gender split for productivity?
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Once commonplace, the phenomenon of all-female or all-male workplaces have largely gone the way of the buggy whip. Many of the benefits of this increased diversity might be difficult to measure and quantify…
There are two quiet trends that might very well transform the structure of work in the near future. First, a majority of today’s employees expect to work beyond the traditional retirement age of 65, with…
Managers who are fair in the workplace are more likely to be mentally fatigued and less co-operative the next day. Dr Russell…
A cancer cluster generally features an unusually high number of the same type of cancer occurring in a group of people with a common exposure.
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Most of us are living longer and we are all expected to be working longer. Because the likelihood of cancer increases as we age, we’re more likely to be diagnosed with cancer while still a member of the…
The term RSI has been replaced by the occupational overuse syndrome, or OOS.
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Repetitive strain injury, or RSI, is a term which was developed to describe an epidemic of work-related arm and hand pain reported in Australia in the 1980s. While work-related arm and hand pain was and…
Feeling threatened drives team members to highlight their distinguishing attributes.
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When your staff bicker and compete, your initial response should be to remind them they’re part of the same team and encourage them to be friendly, right? Not necessarily; we’re now realising that a level…
Plants located in your home or office are beneficial to your health in more ways than you might think.
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It may come as a surprise but air pollution levels indoors are almost always higher than outside, even in busy city centres. Even more surprising is that indoor plants have the ability to mitigate high…
With smartphones allowing work emails to be checked out at all hours, the separation of work from leisure is becoming increasingly blurred.
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For many of us, smartphones and laptops have enabled an electronic untethering from physical and temporal limitations workplaces, creating the opportunity for greater flexibility to fit paid work in and…
The majority of diagnoses for depression, anxiety and PTSD are made by GPs who don’t use the DSM criteria.
The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM-5) has copped the predicted criticisms since its release on the weekend. Most centre on the idea that more of us will…
A recent survey of schools in South Australia has found that health and safety education must better reflect workplace conditions…
The recent cuts to universities are only likely to make the health problem growing in the academic community worse.
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The consensus on the recent A$2.3 billion funding cuts to the tertiary sector is they will do more harm than good. Plenty of commentators foresee diminishing quality of teaching and research, possible…