Scientific American runs a series of posts by Sunny Sea Gold that are thoughtful, helpful, and interesting, such as “How to Be a Better Negotiator,” “How to Be a Better Boss,” and “How to Be a Better Friend.” Gold’s latest in the series is 

Here’s how to increase your office productivity by 15 percent. It’s going to take a little bit of green. Not money, though. Plants. Those good ol’ oxygen-producing-carbon-dioxide-consuming friends of the world. Researchers studied the difference between “lean&#

Sure, we humans have a lot in common with one another—we breathe oxygen, we need water to survive, our bones give us structure—but when it comes to work, we definitely are not all the same. Some people like to work alone; some like to collaborate in teams. Some employees work for mone

The best way to reduce workplace stress as a manager is to have a good working relationship with employees. That just one of the findings from a recent study by Professors Astrid M. Richardsen and Stig Berge Matthiesen at the BI Norwegian Business School in which four key stress facto

Your fighting words are doing more than boosting employees—they’re causing them to be unethical, too. A Brigham Young University (BYU) business study found that bosses who motivate with violent words or phrases end up influencing their employees to play dirty. “Business executiv