Workplace Stress: Wellness Rules

Ep233: Like a balloon filling up with air to the point it explodes, your workforce just might be filling up with stress. So how can employers prevent employees from blowing up? Good question.

To help with answers, we welcome Dr. Cathy Daus, Professor at SIUE, and an expert in stress management and emotional intelligence. Police organizations, hospitals, and AAIM members alike look to her for guidance when it comes to improving wellness and enjoying the positive results that follow.

 

Lawyer on the Clock:

4:04 - The NLRB’s General Counsel, Jennifer Abruzzo, has issued a memorandum that non-compete agreements in employment contracts and severance agreements violate the NLRA except in limited circumstances. This does not cover management, and does not stray from advice or recommendations that non-compete really should be narrowly tailored to those employees who really can impact or hurt the organization just simply by leaving to go to a competitor. 

7:30 - The nomination of Julie Su to Secretary of Labor is currently held up in congress. 

8:42 - The EEOC has announced it will be cracking down on the construction industry for anti-bias enforcement, particularly as it relates to gender and race. 

9:16 - The NLRB, Division 14 in Missouri has concluded that workers at a Missouri cannabis dispensary can move forward with unionization without including two other stores because they are categorized as a health care employer under the MO Department of Health and Senior Services. 

Philburt’s Phorum:

13:01 - An empty test email was accidentally sent out to the HBO Max mailing list by an intern. The people of the internet responded with the biggest (and most amusing) mistakes they had made in their careers. 

The Employers’ Lounge: Workplace Stress

16:40 -  Dr. Cathy Daus, Professor at SIUE, and an expert in stress management and emotional intelligence, joins the program to discuss stress, and provide tips on emotional management and stress response in the workplace. 

23:33 - Workers in the US have been stressed for many decades, and we have seen the trend increase over time.

25:19 - One of the biggest, most consistent buffers for stress is social support.

28:50 - People bring themselves into the workplace, and all aspects of themselves need to be nurtured and supported. 

32:37 - It is unsurprising that micromanagement came up as one of the biggest stressors in our poll. Being micromanaged makes people feel like they don’t have control. 

 

Host(s): 

Phil Brandt, President and CEO, AAIM Employers’ Association

Burt Garland, Shareholder, Ogletree Deakins

 

Special Guest(s): 

Dr. Cathy Daus, Professor and Director of the I/O Psychology Program at SIUE, and Trainer at AAIM

 

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