Archive for July, 2008

Episode 19 - Happiness in the Workplace - Interview with Professor Peter Warr

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Happiness in the Workplace

Professor Peter Warr, from the Institute of Work Psychology and the author of Work, Happiness and Unhappiness shares his insights and observations about why businesses should strive to have happier work forces and what people can do to become more happy.

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The next show will now be released on 2nd September and will feature an interview with Dr Kamal Birdi, on creativity.

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Episode 18 - Anger in the Workplace - Interview with Professor Anat Rafaeli

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Anger in the Workplace

Professor Anta Rafaeli has studied the effects of anger in the workplace. In this episode I catch up with her at the Institute of Work Psychology’s Conference, where she explains why people get angry, what effect it has on other people and how to deal with it.

The Charities Commission went head to head with bloggers over whether blogs had any educative value. This is what they had to say to criticisms from the podnosh and bad science blogs, etc.

“We are aware that the reference to blogs written by individuals in our draft public benefit guidance for charities that advance education has provoked some debate, particularly among bloggers. The draft guidance was published three months ago for consultation to give charities and the public the chance to tell us what aspects of the guidance are helpful - and what isn’t clear. In the draft guidance we explain that in our view an activity will only be considered of educative merit if either the subject or the process is capable of being of educative value. We then go on to explain that where the value is not self-evident, positive evidence of merit will be needed.

To illustrate this we give the example of a wiki site which, if the content of the site was not verified in any way, would need to provide positive evidence of having educational value. Similarly an individual’s blog, if its content was not verified in any way, would have to provide positive evidence of having educational value - either through its content or the process by which the information was delivered. Our consultation on this draft guidance remains open until July 11, and we encourage anyone who would like to comment on the document to respond before this date so that their comments can be considered when we draw up the final guidance later this year. ” 

To have your say email them with your comments: publicbenefit@charitycommission.gov.uk 

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The next show will be released on 21st July and will feature an interview with Professor Peter Warr, on happiness - what it is and how to get more.

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