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Workplace Incivility Causes Mistakes and Even Kills
Research on workplace incivility (for example, emotional abuse or rudeness in the workplace) revealed that if someone is rude to you at...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Nov 5, 2010
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Work Stresses, Bad Bosses, and Heart Attacks
“In 2007, nearly 80 million Americans—one out of every three adults—had some type of cardiovascular disease (CVD)…[In fact,] CVD has been...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Oct 1, 2010
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Book Review: Good Boss, Bad Boss
In an email exchange, Professor Robert I. Sutton (author of the highly acclaimed book, “The No Asshole Rule”) asked me if I was...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Aug 13, 2010
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Leadership, Southwest Airlines, and Malice in Dallas
Note: If you have trouble viewing the video, you can watch it on YouTube. This is a hilarious video (watch his aerobic workouts) produced...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Jun 11, 2010
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3 Primary Goals of People at Work
In “The Enthusiastic Employee” authors Sirota, Mischkind, and Meltzer (2005), working under Sirota Consulting, surveyed 2.5 million...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
May 7, 2010
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Gender and Leadership – Does It Matter?
I come across the topic of gender and leadership quite a bit and thought I would share what I found after researching this subject. The...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Apr 26, 2010
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7 Reasons Why Employees Leave
In “The 7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leave (2005),” Leigh Branham outlined seven reasons why workers quit or leave their jobs: Reason #1:...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Apr 22, 2010
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Evidence-Based Training: Debunking the Myth of Learning Styles
In “Evidence-Based Training Methods: A Guide for Training Professionals,” Ruth Clark (2010) states that one of the biggest myths...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Apr 10, 2010
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Implementing Change and Overcoming Resistance
[NOTE: This post was updated November 2016] In “Leading Change,” John Kotter (1996) outlined an 8-Stage Process to Creating Major Change:...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Feb 5, 2010
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Elements of Corporate Cultures
In “Culture by Default or by Design?” Edmonds and Glaser (2010) talk about the challenge of describing the culture of an organization. In...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Feb 1, 2010
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What Really Motivates Employees
In an article titled, “What Really Motivates Workers” in the January-February 2010 issue of the Harvard Business Review, Amabile & Kramer...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Jan 17, 2010
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People with a Situational Value System
[NOTE: This post was updated December 2023 for freshness & accuracy.] Many years ago, while waiting for a show at a nice hotel in Dallas,...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Dec 13, 2009
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