As I read the latest statistics that one in five people suffer from some sort of mental illness in their lives I become fixated on what this means for people in the workplace. Not everyone that suffers from mental illness is hospitalised or taking time off from work to recover, many work colleagues and friends [...]

One of the biggest mistakes new managers make – regardless of their age – is in thinking a manager requires a different profile of a person, such as being a disciplinarian. One effective way to build credibility and respect is to notice what is working well and to give an employee positive feedback about what [...]

Gender perceptions – The Stereotyped Female Leader Women who succeed in male dominated professions frequently elicit hostile responses. What the research suggests In an experiment illustrating this phenomenon, women described as succeeding in the masculine careers of electrical engineer or electrician were perceived as less likable, attractive, happy, and socially desirable than women described as [...]

The Physical Differences For a long time scientists thought that women were smaller versions of men with different reproductive systems. Given that women and men’s brain sizes are different it was assumed that because the male brain was larger it was more intelligent. Wrong – men and women have the same number of neurons – women’s [...]