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2022 NeoCon: Vital Signs of a Workplace

Cristina Banks, PhD
2022
2022 NeoCon Conference Topic: Vital Signs of a Workplace

Just as medical personnel check a person’s vital signs for health and well-being, so can experts check the vital signs of a workplace. The human body’s vital signs such as temperature, blood pressure, heart rate, and various components of the blood, signal to medical personnel how a body is functioning in key aspects of life. What are the vital signs of a workplace that can suggest whether serious problems exist or the workplace is operating effectively in the manner desired? We propose a set of key elements of a workplace that can...

2022 EDRA Conference: Partnership Models Between Academia and Industry

Cristina Banks, PhD
2022
2022 EDRA Conference “Research in Professional Practice” Topic: “Partnership Models Between Academia and Industry”

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Background: Always had a foot in both academia and practice in my 40-year career PHD in I-O Psychology, so natural confluence of both perspectives: work and organizations Pull science and scientific principles to practice, inform future research by understanding the gap between what is known and not known Model for collaboration/...

2022 WAW: Healthy Workplaces as a Pathway Through Hectic Times

Cristina Banks, PhD
Christina Maslach, PhD
Alan Witt, PhD
Siw Tone Innstrand, PhD
Sally Augustin, PhD, MBA
Michael P. Leiter, PhD
Ragnhilk Wiik, PhD
Marit Christensen, PhD
2022
2022 Wellbeing at Work Conference Symposium: Wellbeing in Hectic Times Topic: Healthy Workplaces as a Pathway Through Hectic Times (Cristina Banks, Christina Maslach) Opening Remarks New Groundwork The Framework Why the need for an interdisciplinary approach to health, well-being, and productivity? Important Organizational Features for Health, Well-Being and Productivity (Siw Tone Innstrand, Ragnhild Wiik, Marit Christensen, Cristina Banks & Christina Maslach) Health and work cycle What creates a healthy workplace? Description of the study conducted in two countries, Norway and the US, in...

2022 SIOP: Is There a Business Case for Healthy Workplaces?

Cristina Banks, PhD
Alan Witt, PhD
Alex Alonso, PhD
Wayne Cascio, PhD
Gervais Tompkin
2022
2022 SIOP Annual Conference Topic: Is There a Business Case for Healthy Workplaces? (Panel Discussion)

The pandemic has heightened our collective awareness of the need to support employee health, safety, and well-being. Employers are witnessing unexpected behaviors from their current and formerly laid-off employees: reluctance to return to same work, work hours, level of pay, working conditions, and environmental stressors, and turnover rates never seen before. What will convince employers to create healthy workplaces?

Contents: What is your concept of a healthy workplace? What does it...

2022 HBCD: What Underlies Well-Being? Satisfying Human Needs

Cristina Banks, PhD
2022
2022 Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study Topic: What Underlies Well-Being? Satisfying Human Needs Contents: The Objective: Human Thriving How do we achieve that objective? What are the basic needs we need to satisfy? How do we design for need satisfaction? Key environments for need satisfaction What needs are satisfied working from home? What needs are satisfied at the office? What needs are satisfied in the field?

2022 Spring Symposium: Job Flexibility and Other Traits of Healthy Workplaces

Cristina Banks, PhD
2022
2022 Spring Symposium From the Great Resignation to the Great Reconfiguration: Connecting research and practice Topic: Job Flexibility and Other Traits of Healthy Workplaces Contents: Consequences of the pandemic Work experience is inherently both physical and psychological in nature What's going on inside the body? Implications 7 Basic Human Needs Active in the Workplace Design Qualities Addressing the challenges of Burnout Building Competitive Advantage through Healthy Workplaces

2021 CoreNet: Collaboration is the Secret Sauce for Satisfying Hybrid Workforce

Alex Alonso, PhD
Sally Augustin, PhD, MBA
Cristina Banks, PhD
Drew Jones, PhD
2021
2021 CoreNet Global Summit: Be the Bridge Topic: Collaboration is the Secret Sauce for a Satisfying Hybrid Workforce Contents Thriving, not just surviving What we know from employers Designing for people outcomes Ethnography and the power of observation and experience Problem-based research to develop employee-centered solutions Let employee choice drive your company’s unique approach to hybrid working

2021 SIOP: The Case for a Shift in Strategic HR: Healthy Workplaces as a Benefit (Poster)

Cristina Banks, PhD
Alan Witt, PhD
2021
2021 SIOP Virtual Congress Topic: The Case for a Shift in Strategic HR: Healthy Workplaces as a Benefit Abstract

Performance equals ability and what (Dunnette, 1973)? Studies have typically operationalized intrinsic motivation in terms of the behaviors of, and policies implemented by, supervisors—neglecting the physical environment. Similarly, HR practices rarely consider the physical environment. We focus on healthy workplaces, which involves the intersection of the behavioral and physical environments.

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A healthy workplace is an underappreciated strategic benefit...

2021 APA: Workplace Technology that Promotes Health and Well-Being

Cristina Banks, PhD
Sally Augustin, PhD, MBA
2021
2021 APA Convention: Technology, Mind, and Society Topic: Workplace Technology that Promotes Health and Well-Being

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We ask the question: Which in-workplace technologies actually support employee health and well-being in concrete and impactful ways, and which technology does not?” We focus on how technology can support health and well-being in general and in particular, reduce the likelihood of employee burnout. Our assessment based on...

2021 ELA: Health and Wellness

Cristina Banks, PhD
2021
2021 Executive Leadership Academy Topic: Health and Wellness: What’s COVID got to do with it? Contents: Your body response Our core needs How do we design for need satisfaction? What's COVID got to do with it? What needs are satisfied working from home? What needs are satisfied at the worksite? What matters in the physical environment What matters in the psychological environment Case study What you can do