Research Paper Title: Work Stress and Risk of Cancer: Meta-analysis of 5700 Incident Cancer Events in 116,000 European Men and Women. Study Question: Does work related stress increase the risk of common cancers? Summary Answer: Work related stress, measured and defined as job strain, is not associated with incident colorectal, lung, prostate, or breast cancers.… Read More
News: Manufacturing Leads the Way for Female Talent
The manufacturing industry may have more women on boards that other FTSE 100 firms, but it still needs to widen its recruitment net, says Tim Thomas. Two years on from Lord Davies’ report on the lack of women on boards, the manufacturers’ organisation EEF, in partnership with Lloyds Commercial Banking and Cranfield School of Management,… Read More
Research: Students, Binge Drinking & the Military
Students who binge drink are more likely than others to join the United States Military. Responses of more than 14,000 high school students in their final year were sought in the 2008 Monitoring the Future survey. Results indicated that those students who intended to join the military after leaving school were significantly more likely to… Read More
Seven ways to keep your Job!
The top tips for helping you get on are: Keep your skills and knowledge up to date; Get on with your colleagues; Have integrity; Use your initiative; Deliver; Ditch the attitude of entitlement; and Don’t be self-centered. On the whole I agree with the above seven tips and the reasoning behind them. Use the link… Read More
Research: Sickness Absence can be predicted!
Sickness absence in adulthood can be predicted by factors measured in adolescence. However, they differ between men and women according to a Swedish longitudinal cohort study. For men, low achievement at school and having an unemployed father predicted their own sickness absence. For women, the factors associated with sickness absence included being educated mainly with other… Read More
Putting Learning in Collective Hands: A New Democracy?
This article looks at the democratisation of learning and the importance of this in an era of technological advances and high-speed innovation and change. Collaborative learning, where two or more people learn together to share knowledge and good practice can help spark innovation, break down silos and boundaries and open up the process of both… Read More
Beware the Impact of Pay Injustice
This article examines three studies of how pay justice can affect employee behaviour. As the authors point out, previous research investigating justice has established four types of reward-related justice, namely: The fairness of the actual rewards given to an individual, known as ‘distributive justice’; Procedures used to determine reward decisions, known as ‘procedural justice’; The… Read More
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