Author Archives for Nayade Cardenas

Work ethics: honesty and responsibility as fundamental pillars

June 16, 2023 9:08 am Published by Nayade Cardenas Leave your thoughts Max H. Bazerman, a professor at Harvard Business School, discusses some of them in his book, Complicit: How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop. A work on the disturbing, widespread human tendency to be immobile in the face of reprehensible cases. What will I read about in this article? What is work ethics?... View Article

To accept my boss on social networks or not, that is the question

September 13, 2022 7:59 am Published by Nayade Cardenas Leave your thoughts In 2018, an anonymous reader wrote a short letter to the New York Times, asking whether he should accept his boss on Facebook or not. The anonymous reader added that the boss was new, and that he didn’t like his management style but, even if this was not the case, he’d have doubts about whether... View Article

Professionals expectations increasingly focus on flexibility

September 6, 2022 3:50 pm Published by Nayade Cardenas Leave your thoughts HR teams in companies often ask themselves these kinds of questions in order to study and improve the relationship with their professionals: do we know the needs of our workforce? Do we follow the best strategies to retain our talent? Are we a company where people want to work? Maybe before 2020 the answers they... View Article

Threat brain vs. safe brain, which emotions benefit us more?

September 1, 2022 6:42 am Published by Nayade Cardenas Leave your thoughts Do you control your impulses or do they control you? Part of our behaviour works automatically. We’re talking about those series of emotions and reactions that seem to be programmed in our brain and which, on many occasions, are useful to free us from danger. However, sometimes they can lead to toxic habits that prevent... View Article

Does gender inequality persist also in our leisure time?

July 28, 2022 7:38 am Published by Nayade Cardenas Leave your thoughts Have you think any time about gender inequality in leisure? Two major features of modernity could be the democratisation of leisure, on the one hand, and the feeling of lack of time, on the other. The two traits seem to explain each other, since the ability to enjoy an increasingly wide range of experiences could... View Article

Teleworking or face-to-face? The hybrid model brings out the best of both worlds

October 8, 2021 11:34 am Published by Nayade Cardenas Leave your thoughts The hardest months of the pandemic and of confinement taught many companies a valuable lesson: the performance of their employees, despite the added difficulties of a family confinement and with uncertainty and worry as a social context, continued to be excellent even when teleworking from home. At least this was the general trend, with some... View Article