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GBR Poll: The Economy and Workplace Productivity

Published
by
Danielle L. Scott
on March 16, 2009
in America's Financial Crisis, Engagement, Management, Org Behavior, Polls and Work/Life Balance
. 5 Comments

The GBR Blog wants to know:

Is the Down Economy Affecting Productivity in Your Organization?

  • People are working harder to keep their jobs (55%, 45 Votes)
  • Things are pretty much the same, business as usual (30%, 25 Votes)
  • People are too obsessed with what’s going on to focus on their work. (15%, 12 Votes)

Total Voters: 82

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What’s going on at your work? Tell us in the comments.

UPDATE: This poll was closed on March 30, 2009. Read our analysis of the poll and get “5 Tips to Boost Workplace Happiness During these Tough Times,” by Charles Kerns, PhD, Associate Professor of Applied Behavioral Science.

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Life is (still) Good

Published
by
Kurt Motamedi, PhD, Professor of Strategy and Leadership
on October 10, 2008
in America's Financial Crisis, In the News and Work/Life Balance
. 3 Comments
Kurt K. Motamedi, PhD

Kurt K. Motamedi, PhD

Once more in my lifetime we are going through an upheaval. This time it is the financial markets and economic condition. There is a great deal of pain and many of our students and communities are fearful and suffering. I would like to share with you an experience of the past and request your reply.

In the early 90s when the market was down and the world was facing another real estate crisis, many of my students had lost their jobs and people all around were economically struggling. It was a time of Charles Keating’s excesses and REOs. In one late night class, the spirits were down and many of my students uncertain about their futures felt hopelessly down.

I asked the students to respond to a hypothetical situation. I asked them to assume that they were rich and well-to-do, but had lost their respective right arms in a recent car accident. Luckily, new technology and medical science would enable the replacement of the arm through cloning. The new arm would be perfect and as good as the old and with absolutely no shortcomings. It would be identical to the lost arm.

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