By Sue Shekut, Owner, Working Well Massage, Licensed Massage Therapist, Certified Wellness Coach, ACSM Personal Trainer
Recently I heard about a great blog that provides posts about the latest research on Industrial/Organizational science, The IOATWORK blog.
Human Resource professionals, as well as those of you interested in reducing stress in your workplace, might learn a lot from articles in this blog. As a massage therapist and wellness coach, I see the effects of workplace stress first-hand. And I can do something about relieving the effects of stress for my clients. But I can’t eliminate the causes of stress. That’s the job of management and Industrial/Organizational psychologists. If you want to know more about what’s going on in the field of research, what’s been shown to work and what does not as far as reducing workplace stress, providing better work/life balance for employees or how to keep yourself from burning out, you would do well to check out this blog! (And of course there are a lot of other great non-wellness related posts in the blog as well.
Who Created the IOATWORK blog and Who May Benefit From Reading It?
The blog editor, Alison Mallard, Ph.D. explains why the blog was created and the audience they intend to serve:
Many consider Industrial/Organizational psychology as the science behind Human Resources, Organizational Development, Organizational Effectiveness, and Organizational Behavior.
I/O AT WORK helps to bridge the gap between I/O research and its application in the HR world (and beyond) by making it easier for practitioners to access and stay on top of recent published research.
So, instead of spending hours scanning multiple journals, we do much of the work for you. With this site and a few minutes a week, you can stay informed about new research by scrolling through the new reviews posted each week. Or you can search reviews by topic or journal.
Wellness-related Blog Posts from IOATWORK blog (links included)
Your Lunchbox is Your Friend
Keeping it Safe for Daylight Saving Time
Heavy Workloads: Much More Than Just a Nuisance
If You Want to Prevent Exhaustion … Don’t Worry, Be Happy!
With Age Comes Wisdom…And Better Job Attitudes
Managing Grief in the Workplace
Oh give me a BREAK! (Why breaks are important)
When Helping Hurts: The Dark Side of Organizational Citizenship Behaviors
When Mental Detachment from Work is a Must
Play Hard, Rest Hard and Maximize Your Performance
The Organizational Benefits of Work Life Balance
Home Sweet Home…At Work?
Work-Family Conflict: White vs Blue Collar
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- Workplace stress reducer: recognition (marcisegal.wordpress.com)
- Balancing Workplace Loyalty And All That Stress (blogs.forbes.com)
- Work-Life Balance Takes Center Stage in the Minds of Tri-State Businesses (eon.businesswire.com)
- Layoffs, survivor’s guilt, bigger workloads are burning out employees (gazetteonline.com)
- Stress, Burn Out and Work Life Balance [Margit “Success” Jones-Hochstrasser,] (ecademy.com)
- Reduce Job Stress, Increase Job Productivity (helpingpsychology.com)
- How Stress Affects Attitudes at Work (brighthub.com)
- Daylight debate: Questioning the validity of daylight saving time (calgaryherald.com)
- End Daylight Saving Time by Sheila Danzig (gunnyg.wordpress.com)
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